Pocket Full of Gold
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Pocket Full of Gold is the fifth studio album from American 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...

 artist, Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

. It was released in 1991 on MCA Nashville Records. It features the singles "Pocket Full of Gold," "Liza Jane," "Look at Us" and "Take Your Memory with You."

Track listing

  1. "I Quit" (Max D. Barnes
    Max D. Barnes
    Max D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career...

    , Vince Gill) - 2:30
  2. "Look at Us
    Look at Us (song)
    "Look at Us" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in September 1991, it was the third single from the album Pocket Full of Gold. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

    " (Barnes, Gill) - 3:59
  3. "Take Your Memory with You
    Take Your Memory with You
    "Take Your Memory with You" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in January 1992, it was the fourth single from the album Pocket Full of Gold. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

    " (Gill) - 2:34
  4. "Pocket Full of Gold
    Pocket Full of Gold (song)
    "Pocket Full of Gold" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in January 1991, it was the first single and title track from the album Pocket Full of Gold. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart...

    " (Brian Allsmiller, Gill) - 4:04
  5. "The Strings That Tie You Down" (Barnes, Gill) - 3:39
  6. "Liza Jane
    Liza Jane (Vince Gill song)
    "Liza Jane" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in June 1991, it was the second single from the album Pocket Full of Gold. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...

    " (Gill, Reed Nielsen) - 2:53
  7. "If I Didn't Have You in My World" (Gill, Jim Weatherly
    Jim Weatherly
    James Dexter Weatherly is an American singer-songwriter. Weatherly played quarterback at the University of Mississippi and was an All-American before choosing songwriting over a football career...

    ) - 3:52
  8. "A Little Left Over" (Gill) - 2:06
  9. "What's a Man to Do" (Curtis Wright
    Curtis Wright
    Curtis Blaine Wright is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1989 with the single "She's Got a Man on her Mind" on a branch of MCA Records, before recording a solo album in 1992 on Liberty Records...

    ) - 3:11
  10. "Sparkle" (Jim Lauderdale
    Jim Lauderdale
    Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...

    , John Leventhal
    John Leventhal
    John Leventhal is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright, The Wreckers and many others...

    ) - 3:16

Production

  • Produced By Tony Brown
  • Mixed By John Guess
  • Engineered By John Guess & Marty Williams
  • Mastered By Glenn Meadows

Personnel

  • Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...

     – 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 ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Barry Beckett
    Barry Beckett
    Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...

     – 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...

    , keyboards
    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...

  • Richard Bennett
    Richard Bennett (guitarist)
    Richard Bennett is a touring sideman, session veteran, and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for 17 years, and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session player, he has worked with artists ranging from Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand to Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill...

     – guitars
  • Larry Byrom
    Larry Byrom
    Larry Byrom is an American guitarist who has written, recorded, and toured with acts like Steppenwolf, Ratchell, Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Peter Frampton, Eddie Rabbit and Tanya Tucker.- References :...

     – guitars
  • Vince Gill – vocals, guitars
  • John Hughey
    John Hughey
    John Hughey was an American musician. He was known for his work as a session pedal steel guitar player for various country music acts, most notably Vince Gill and Conway Twitty...

     – steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

  • Tony King – background vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Larrie Londin
    Larrie Londin
    Ralph Gallant, better known by his stage name Larrie Londin , was an American drummer and session musician. Londin played with a wide range of artists including Journey and Steve Perry....

     – drums, percussion
  • Patty Loveless
    Patty Loveless
    Patty Loveless , is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and...

     – background vocals
  • Mac McAnally
    Mac McAnally
    Lyman Corbitt "Mac" McAnally, Jr. is an American country music singer-songwriter, session musician and record producer. In his career, he has recorded ten studio albums and eight singles. Two of his singles were hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and six more on the Hot Country Songs charts...

     – guitars
  • Herb Pedersen
    Herb Pedersen
    Herb Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past forty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different...

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

  • Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano, keyboards
  • Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – background vocals
  • Pete Wasner – piano, keyboards
  • Willie Weeks
    Willie Weeks
    Willie Weeks is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also gained notoriety touring with many of rock's heavyweights throughout his career...

     – bass guitar
  • Andrea Zonn – background vocals, 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...


Chart performance

Chart (1991) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 5
U.S. Billboard 200 37
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