Trick Pony (album)
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Trick Pony is the eponymous debut from the 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...

 group Trick Pony
Trick Pony
Trick Pony was an American country music group. It was formed in 1996 by Keith Burns , Ira Dean , and Heidi Newfield . The group recorded three studio albums: Trick Pony, On a Mission and R.I.D.E., released in 2001, 2002 and 2005, respectively...

, released in 2001 on Warner Bros. Records
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 Nashville. The album produced three singles in "Pour Me", "On a Night Like This", and "Just What I Do", which respectively reached #12, #4, and #13 on the Billboard
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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
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) charts. "Just What I Do" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for "Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals". Also included is a cover of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
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's "Big River", here covered with Cash and Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

.

Track listing

  1. "Pour Me" (Rory Waters Beighley, Sammy Harp Wedlock, Keith Burns, Ira Dean, Heidi Newfield
    Heidi Newfield
    Heidi Newfield is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit of a solo career...

    ) – 2:49
  2. "Party of One" (Karen Staley, Dean, Doug Kahan) – 3:17
  3. "Big River
    Big River (Johnny Cash song)
    "Big River" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released as a single by Sun Records in 1958, it went as high as #4 on the Billboard country music charts and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks...

    " (Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash
    John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

    ) – 3:34
    • feat. Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings
      Waylon Jennings
      Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

  4. "Every Other Memory" (Staley, Dean, Kahan) – 3:49
  5. "More Like Me" (Burns, Dean, Newfield) – 3:22
  6. "Just What I Do" (Burns, Dean) – 3:22
  7. "Stay in This Moment" (Lewis Anderson, George Teren) – 3:32
  8. "On a Night Like This
    On a Night Like This (Trick Pony song)
    "On a Night like This" is the title of a song written by Doug Kahan and Karen Staley, and recorded by American country music group Trick Pony. Released in April 2001, it was the second single from the album Trick Pony...

    " (Staley, Kahan) – 3:30
  9. "One in a Row" (Burns, Dean) – 2:58
  10. "Now Would Be the Time" (Burns, Dean) – 4:27
  11. "Can't Say That on the Radio" (Dawna Bradford, Burns) – 3:39
  12. "Spent" (David Lee Murphy
    David Lee Murphy
    David Lee Murphy is an American country music artist. Signed to MCA Nashville Records in 1994, Murphy made his first appearance on the Billboard country charts that year with "Just Once", a song from the soundtrack to the 1994 film 8 Seconds. A year later, Murphy's debut album Out with a Bang was...

    , Kim Tribble) – 2:42
  13. "Not Hidden Track" – 2:37

Trick Pony

  • Keith Burns - acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Ira Dean - upright bass, bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , percussion, vocals
  • Heidi Newfield
    Heidi Newfield
    Heidi Newfield is an American country music artist. She was lead singer, rhythm guitarist and harmonica player for the group Trick Pony, alongside Keith Burns and Ira Dean from 1996 until 2006, when she left in pursuit of a solo career...

     - vocals, harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

    , 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...


Additional Musicians

  • Kenny Aronoff - drums
  • Daniel Blank - 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...

  • Pat Buchanan - 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...

  • Shannon Forrest - drums
  • Larry Franklin
    Larry Franklin
    Lawrence Anthony Franklin is a former U.S. Air Force Reserve colonel who has pleaded guilty to passing information about U.S. policy towards Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee , the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the U.S, while he was working for the Defense...

     - fiddle
  • Aubrey Haynie
    Aubrey Haynie
    Aubrey Haynie is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wrote himself...

     - fiddle
  • John Hobbs - 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...

  • John Jorgenson
    John Jorgenson
    John Jorgenson is a US musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone...

     - electric guitar
  • Steve Nathan - keyboards
  • Brian Nelson - percussion
  • Jimmy Nichols - keyboards
  • Russ Paul - electric guitar, 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...

  • Tom Roady - percussion
  • Brad Ruthven - electric guitar
  • Michael Spriggs - acoustic guitar

Chart performance

Chart (2001) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 12
U.S. Billboard 200 91
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