Emerson Drive (album)
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Emerson Drive is the third studio album from Canadian country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band Emerson Drive
Emerson Drive
Emerson Drive is a country music band founded in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada in 1995. The band is Brad Mates , Danick Dupelle , Mike Melancon , Dale Wallace , and David Pichette .Early on, the band found minor success in Canada, releasing two albums under the name of 12 Gauge, the first Open...

 and their major-label debut, it was released in 2002 on DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records
DreamWorks Records was an American record label. Founded in 1996 by David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a subsidiary of DreamWorks SKG, the label operated until 2005 when it was shut down...

 Nashville. It produced three singles on the Billboard
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Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts: the Top 5 hits "I Should Be Sleeping" and "Fall Into Me", as well as the #23-peaking "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)". This latter song was originally recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus
William "Billy" Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon...

 on his 1994 album Storm in the Heartland
Storm in the Heartland
Storm in the Heartland is the third album from country music artist Billy Ray Cyrus. Released in 1994 on Mercury Records, it produced the singles "Storm in the Heartland", "Deja Blue", and "One Last Thrill", the first two of which entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...

, and in 1999 by Lari White
Lari White
Lari Michele White is an American country music artist and actress. She first gained national attention in 1992 as a winner on You Can Be a Star, a talent competition which aired on The Nashville Network...

 (as a duet with Toby Keith
Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...

) on White's album Stepping Stone
Stepping Stone (album)
Stepping Stone is the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Lari White. Released on July 28, 1998 as her first album for Lyric Street Records after leaving RCA Nashville...

.

Track listing

  1. "Fall into Me
    Fall into Me
    "Fall into Me" is the title of a country music song written by Danny Orton and Jeremy Stover. It was recorded by the Canadian band Emerson Drive on their 2001 self-titled album. Released in July 2002 as the album's second single, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard country charts in January 2003. The...

    " (Danny Orton, Jeremy Stover) - 2:48
  2. "Evidence" (Vicky McGehee, Trent Tomlinson
    Trent Tomlinson
    Trent Tomlinson is an American country music artist. After several failed attempts at finding a record deal, Tomlinson was signed to Lyric Street Records in 2005, with his debut album Country Is My Rock, released in early 2006. This album produced three Top 40 singles on the U.S...

    , Bobby Pinson
    Bobby Pinson
    Bobby Olen Pinson is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records in 2005, Pinson made his debut that year with his album Man Like Me. Its lead-off single, "Don't Ask Me How I Know", peaked at #16 on the Hot Country Songs charts, and was his only Top 40 country hit...

    ) - 3:13
  3. "Passionate, Desperate Love" (Brett Beavers
    Brett Beavers
    Brett Beavers, born in Waco, Texas, is an American country music songwriter and producer and the co-author of the book Something Worth Leaving Behind.-Background:...

    , Tom Douglas
    Tom Douglas (songwriter)
    Thomas Stevenson "Tom" Douglas is an American country music songwriter. Active since the early 1990s, he has written Top Ten hits for John Michael Montgomery, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Collin Raye and others....

    ) - 3:28
  4. "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)
    Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)
    "Only God " is the title of a country music song written by pop and rock songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange. It was originally recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus for his 1994 album Storm in the Heartland, but not released as a single....

    " (Robert John "Mutt" Lange) - 4:22
  5. "Say My Name" (Tomlinson, Pinson, Chris Hartman) - 2:55
  6. "I Should Be Sleeping
    I Should Be Sleeping
    "I Should Be Sleeping" is the title of a song written by Shaye Smith and Lisa Drew, and recorded by Canadian country music group Emerson Drive. It was released in October 2001 as their first single from their debut self-titled album, Emerson Drive. The song reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard...

    " (Shaye Smith, Lisa Drew) - 2:57
  7. "Light of Day" (Tomlinson, Pinson, Kris Bergsnes) - 4:23
  8. "Looking Over My Shoulder" (John Bettis
    John Bettis
    John Bettis is an American lyricist who has co-written many famous popular songs over the years. In 2011, John was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....

    , Neil Thrasher
    Neil Thrasher
    Joe Neil Thrasher, Jr. is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1995 and 1997, he and Kelly Shiver comprised the duo Thrasher Shiver, which recorded a studio album for Asylum Records in 1996 and charted two singles on the Billboard country charts in early 1997...

    , Michael Dulaney) - 3:14
  9. "I See Heaven" (Noah Gordon
    Noah Gordon (singer)
    Noah Adrian Gordon is an American country music singer and songwriter. He had been a musician since childhood, playing mandolin and drums in his parents' band, and he began playing drums for Randy Travis at age ten....

    , Bergsnes, Jeff Loberg) - 2:42
  10. "How Lucky I Am" (Bob Regan, Chris Lindsey) - 3:51
  11. "Hollywood Kiss" (Marcus Hummon
    Marcus Hummon
    Marcus Spencer Hummon is an American country music artist. After several years of playing in various bands, he eventually found his way to Nashville, Tennessee, where he was signed to a songwriting contract, and subsequently a record deal with Columbia Records, which released his debut album All...

    ) - 2:58
  12. "It's All About You" (Reed Nielsen, Jeffrey Steele
    Jeffrey Steele
    Jeffrey LeVasseur is an American country music singer and songwriter, more commonly known by the name Jeffrey Steele...

    ) - 2:56

Personnel

All instruments and vocals by Emerson Drive.
  • Pat Allingham – fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

    , acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

    , 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...

    , 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...

    , background vocals
  • Danick Dupelle – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
  • Chris Hartman – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , organ, acoustic guitar, background vocals
  • Jeff Loberg – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , background vocals
  • Brad Mates – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Mike Melancon – drums, percussion, drum loops


All tracks produced by Julian King and James Stroud
James Stroud
James Stroud is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, and country music. In the 1990s he was the president of Giant Records and held several credits as a session drummer...

, except "Fall into Me" and "How Lucky I Am", produced by Richard Marx
Richard Marx
Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...

.

Chart performance

Chart (2002) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 13
U.S. Billboard 200 108
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers 2
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