''True Believer'' is the twenty-first studio album by
country music artist
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, ...
. It was released in 1993, his first for
Liberty Records
Liberty Records was a record label founded in the United States by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revival ...
. The album produced two singles, the title track, which peaked at #30 on country charts and "I'm Playing for You," which did not chart.
The album did not chart, his first to do so since his 1971
self-named debut album.
Allmusic praised the title track, stating that the record would have been one "to reckon with" if the rest of the tracks "had the energy" of the title song.
Track listing
#"Desire" (
Walt Aldridge, Jenny Yates) – 4:38
#"I'm Playing for You" (Lewis Anderson,
Keith Stegall
Robert Keith Stegall (born November 1, 1955) is an American country music recording artist and record producer. Active since 1980, Stegall has recorded two major-label studio albums: 1985's ''Keith Stegall'' and 1996's ''Passages'', although he ...
) – 4:17
#"Somebody's Gonna Get That Girl" (
Marc Beeson, Joanie Chappel-Beeson,
Sonny LeMaire) – 3:52
#"Better Off with the Blues" (
Donnie Fritts,
Delbert McClinton,
Gary Nicholson) – 3:59
#"Hos Allen Sequé" – :41
#"True Believer" (
John Hiatt) – 4:51
#"These Foolish Things" (
Harry Link,
Holt Marvell,
Jack Strachey
Jack Strachey (25 September 1894 – 27 May 1972) was an English composer and songwriter
Born John Francis Strachey in London on 25 September 1894, he began writing songs in the 1920s for the theatre and the music hall, scoring his first success ...
) – 3:49
#"A Million Years Till Then" (
Dennis Morgan
Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner, December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer. He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.
According to one obi ...
,
Keith Thomas) – 4:27
#"Desperate Man" (
Dave Gibson) – 4:08
#"Civil War" (Carol Chase, Cindy Richardson) – 4:07
#"Please Jesus (Send My Baby Home to Me)" (Michael Stewart) – 4:23
Production
* Producers – Rob Galbraith and Ronnie Milsap
* Recording and Mix Engineers – Mike Clute and Keith Odle
*Assistant Recording and Mix Engineer – Randy Gardner
* Digital Editing – Keith Odle and Milan Bogdan
* Mastered by
Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).
Personnel
* Ronnie Milsap – lead and backing vocals,
keyboards
*
John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards
*
Shane Keister – keyboards, synthesizers, programming
*
Brian D. Siewart
Brian D. Siewert, alternatively credited with or without his middle initial, is an American public speaker, multiple Emmy Award-winning concert and television composer, producer, songwriter, musician, arranger and visual artist. He has worked on '' ...
– synthesizers
* Jay Spell – keyboards
* Catherine Styron – keyboards
*
Marc Beeson –
acoustic guitar
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* Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
* Bruce Dees – acoustic guitar,
electric guitar, backing vocals
*
John Hiatt – acoustic guitar
*
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
*
Walt Aldridge – electric guitar
* Jamie Brantley – electric guitar, backing vocals
*
Larry Byrom – electric guitar
*
Dann Huff – electric guitar
* Russ Pahl – electric guitar
*
Reggie Young
Reggie Grimes Young Jr. (December 12, 1936 – January 17, 2019) was an American musician who was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studio house band, The Memphis Boys, and was a leading session musician. He played on various recordings with ...
– electric guitar
*
John Willis – gut-string guitar
*
Dan Dugmore –
pedal steel guitar
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,
lap steel guitar
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*
David Hungate
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–
bass guitar
* Warren Gowers – bass guitar
* Alison Prestwood – bass guitar
*
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
* Bob Wray – bass guitar
* James Ferguson –
upright bass
* Darryl Holden –
drums
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*
Kenny Malone – drums
*
Lonnie Wilson – drums
*
Terry McMillan –
percussion,
harmonica
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* Farrell Morris – percussion
* Sam Levine –
saxophone, horn arrangements
* Mike Haynes –
trumpet
* Ava Aldridge – backing vocals
* Jana King – backing vocals
* Marie Lewey – backing vocals
* Cindy Richardson-Walker – backing vocals
* Lisa Silver – backing vocals
Chart
Singles
References
*Cooper, Dan.
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1993 albums
Ronnie Milsap albums
Liberty Records albums