Cry (Faith Hill album)
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Personnel

  • Faith Hill - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Tim Akers - keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Rick Baptist - trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Greg Barnhill - background vocals
  • Bob Becker - viola
    Viola
    The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

  • Charlie Bisharat
    Charlie Bisharat
    Charlie Bisharat is a Grammy-winning violinistwho has extensively toured and/or recorded with numerous artists. He was a member of Shadowfax who won a Grammy in 1988 for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village...

     - violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

  • Bekka Bramlett
    Bekka Bramlett
    Rebekka Ruth Lazone "Bekka" Bramlett is a singer from the United States. She is the daughter of popular music duo Delaney and Bonnie....

     - tambourine
    Tambourine
    The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....

    , background vocals
  • Denyse Buffum - viola
  • Paul Bushnell - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Eve Butler - violin
  • David Campbell - arranger, conductor
  • Darius Campo - violin
  • Matt Chamberlain
    Matt Chamberlain
    Matthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Susan Chatman - violin
  • Lisa Cochran - background vocals
  • Vinnie Colaiuta
    Vinnie Colaiuta
    Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...

     - drums, tambourine
  • Larry Corbett - cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

  • Jim Cox - piano, Hammond organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

  • Eric Darken - percussion
  • Mario deLeon - violin
  • Joel Derouin - violin, concert master
  • Erika Duke - cello
  • Bruce Dukov - violin
  • Earl Dumler - oboe
    Oboe
    The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

  • Stephen Erdody - cello
  • Stefanie Fife - cello
  • Marti Frederiksen - acoustic guitar
    Steel-string acoustic guitar
    A steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...

    , percussion, electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    , background vocals
  • John Fumo - trumpet
  • Matt Funes - viola
  • Byron Gallimore - electric guitar, clavinet
    Clavinet
    A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...

    , sampling, slide guitar
    Slide guitar
    Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

    , drum loop
    Music loop
    In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material. Short sections of material can be repeated to create ostinato patterns...

    , sampled keyboards, synthesizer accordion
  • Armen Garabedian - violin
  • Berj Garabedian - violin
  • Endre Granat
    Endre Granat
    Endre Granat,former Asst. Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra ,Concertmaster of the Goteborg Symphony.Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Competition,Recipient of the Ysaye Medal.Frequent participant of the Marlboro Festival and the Casals Festival.The former Fulbright scholar taught...

     - violin
  • Lynn Grants - viola
  • Maurice Grants - cello
  • Lisa Gregg - background vocals
  • John Hayhurst - viola
  • Dan Higgins - tenor saxophone
    Tenor saxophone
    The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

  • Jim Hoke - autoharp
    Autoharp
    The autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a chorded zither. -History:There is debate over the...

  • Jim Horn
    Jim Horn
    Jim Horn is an American saxophonist and woodwind player. He was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for five years, playing sax and flute on the road, and in the recording studio...

     - tenor saxophone
  • Dann Huff
    Dann Huff
    Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...

     - guitar
  • Damon Johnson - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar
  • Suzie Katayama - cello, conductor, string conductor
  • Peter Kent - violin
  • Michael Landau
    Michael Landau
    Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...

     - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Sam Levine - tenor saxophone
  • Dane Little - cello
  • Diane Little - cello
  • Erik Lutkins - drum loop
  • Michael Markman - violin
  • Miguel Martinez - cello
  • Robert Matsuda - violin
  • Chris McHugh - drums
  • Jerry McPherson - guitar
  • Doug Moffett - baritone saxophone
    Baritone saxophone
    The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...

  • Jamie Muhoberac
    Jamie Muhoberac
    Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including The All-American Rejects, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones , Backstreet Boys, Aly & AJ, Bob Dylan, Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Cornell , My Chemical Romance, Paradise Lost, Girlfriend, Carmen Rizzo and Pet Shop Boys...

     - organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

    , keyboard, Wurlitzer
  • Carole Mukogawa - viola
  • Steve Nathan - keyboard
  • Maria Newman - violin
  • Sid Page - violin
  • Toss Panos - drums
  • Sara Parkins - violin
  • Dean Parks
    Dean Parks
    Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.-Albums:Dean was member of The North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan...

     - acoustic guitar, gut string guitar
  • Joel Peskin - baritone saxophone
  • Bob Peterson - violin
  • Tim Pierce - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Kazi Pitelka - viola
  • Karie Prescott - viola
  • Bill Reichenbach Jr.- trombone
  • Michele Richards - violin
  • Steve Richards - cello
  • Mark Robertson - violin
  • Annie Roboff - drum loop
  • Chris Rodriguez - background vocals
  • Matt Rollings - piano
  • Haim Shtrum - violin
  • Leland Sklar
    Leland Sklar
    Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...

     - bass
  • Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass
  • Dan Smith - cello
  • Edmund Stein - vocals
  • Rudy Stein - cello
  • David Stenske - violin
  • Crystal Taliefero - background vocals
  • Michael Hart Thompson - guitar
  • Mari Tsumura - violin
  • Josephina Vergara - violin
  • Evan Wilson - viola
  • John Wittenberg - violin
  • Margaret Wooten - violin
  • Cynthia Wyatt - harp
    Harp
    The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

  • Jonathan Yudkin - mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

    , cello, bazouki
  • Jeff Cobble* - lead guitar

Production

  • Producer: Faith Hill, Marti Frederiksen, Byron Gallimore, Dann Huff, David May
  • Engineers: Jeff Balding, Jeremy Blair, Steve Churchyard, Ricky Cobble, Dennis Davis, Allen Ditto, Jason Gantt, Mark Hagen, Julian King, Erik Lutkins, Michael McCoy, Brian Paturalski
  • Mixing: Serban Ghenea, Mick Guzauski
    Mick Guzauski
    Mick Guzauski is a multi-platinum Mixing Engineer and sound engineer.Guzauski's work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, and easy listening...

    , Tom Lord-Alge
    Tom Lord-Alge
    Tom Lord-Alge is a four-time Grammy Award–winning record producer and mixer. He is the youngest of Vivian Lord's five children, Mark Lord-Alge, Lisa Lord-Alge, Chris Lord-Alge, Jeff Lord-Alge and Tom Lord-Alge...

    , Mark O'Donoughue, Tim Palmer, Andy Wallace
  • Mixing assistant: Tim Roberts
  • Remixing: Elliot Scheiner
    Elliot Scheiner
    Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and record engineer. Scheiner has received 23 Grammy Award nominations, 6 of which he won, and he has been awarded four Emmy nominations, one Emmy award for his work with the Eagles on their farewell tour broadcast, three TEC Awards nominations, a TEC Hall of...

  • Mastering: Robert Hadley, Tom Lord-Alge, Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig
    Bob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....

    , Doug Sax
  • A&R: Jeffrey Aldrich, Danny Kee
  • Assistants: Jeff Balding, Tom Bender, Greg Burns, Eric Gallimore, Jed Hackett, Femio Hernández, Judy Kirschner, Brett Patrick, Dennis Rivadeneira, Tim Roberts, Jaime Sickora, Steve Sisco, Matt Snedecor, Dann Thompson, Alex Uychocde, Patrick Woodward, Mike Zinczenko
  • Digital editing: Ricky Cobble, Dennis Davis, Marti Frederiksen, Jason Gantt, Erik Lutkins, Chris Rowe, Josh Wilbur
  • Authoring: Spencer Chrislu, David Dieckmann
  • Production coordination: Ann Callis, Mike "Frog" Griffith
  • Drum programming: Vinnie Colaiuta, Frank Macek
  • Keyboard programming: Eric Carter
  • Programming: Dann Huff, David Lyndon Huff, Chris McHugh, Tedd Tjornhom
  • Overdubs: Byron Gallimore
  • Sequencing: Byron Gallimore
  • String arrangements: Paul Buckmaster
    Paul Buckmaster
    Paul John Buckmaster is a Grammy Award-winning English artist, arranger and composer.He began learning the cello at the age of 4 and graduated from the Royal College of Music at age 16....

    , David Campbell, Jim Cox
  • Orchestra manager: Suzie Katayama
  • Art administration: Sandra Westerman
  • Graphic coordinator: Raena Winscott
  • Librarian: David Horn
  • Hair stylist: Serge Normant

Charts

Album
Chart (2002) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
ARIA Albums 10
ARIA Country Albums 1
Canadian Albums Chart 3
Swiss Albums Chart 20
Portugal Albums Chart 24
Sweden Albums Chart 22
UK Albums 25

Awards

Grammy Awards
Year Winner Category
2002 "Cry" Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance was first awarded in 1965, to Dottie West. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female...

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