Wild Angels (Martina McBride album)

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This article is about the Martina McBride album. For the films, see The Wild Angels and Wild Angels (1969 film).
Wild Angels
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Studio album by Martina McBride
Released September 26, 1995 (1995-09-26)[1][2]
Recorded 1995 at The Money Pit, Nashville, TN
Genre Country[2]
Length 38:06[2]
Label RCA Nashville[1][2]
Producer Paul Worley
Ed Seay
Martina McBride
Martina McBride chronology
The Way That I Am
(1993)The Way That I Am1993		 Wild Angels
(1995)		 Evolution
(1997)Evolution1997
Singles from Wild Angels
  1. "Safe in the Arms of Love"
    Released: July 17, 1995
  2. "Wild Angels"
    Released: November 20, 1995
  3. "Phones are Ringin' All Over Town"
    Released: 1996
  4. "Swingin' Doors"
    Released: August 26, 1996
  5. "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road"
    Released: January 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]
Entertainment Weekly B−[3]
Los Angeles Times 2/4 stars[4]
Robert Christgau (2-star Honorable Mention)[5]

Wild Angels is a 1995 album and third album by Martina McBride.[1][2] The album produced the singles "Safe in the Arms of Love", "Wild Angels", "Swingin' Doors", "Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town", and "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road". "Wild Angels" was McBride's first Number One on the Hot Country Songs charts. In the U.S. the album was certified Gold on February 23, 1996, and Platinum on February 6, 1998, by the R.I.A.A.

Also included is a cover of "Two More Bottles of Wine", which was previously a #1 hit for Emmylou Harris in 1978. "Safe in the Arms of Love" was originally recorded by Wild Choir on their self-titled 1986 album, Baillie & the Boys on their 1989 album Turn the Tide, Kennedy Rose on their 1994 album Walk the Line, and Michelle Wright on her 1994 album The Reasons Why. Wright's version of the song was a Top 10 hit in Canada. "A Great Disguise" would later be recorded by Pam Tillis on her 1998 album Every Time.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Wild Angels"   Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison, Harry Stinson 3:44
2. "Safe in the Arms of Love"   Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose, Pat Bunch 3:13
3. "Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town"   David MacKechnie, Marc Beeson, Kin Vassy 3:31
4. "A Great Disguise"   Greg Barnhill, Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens 3:58
5. "Swingin' Doors"   Jim Foster, Chapin Hartford, Bobby Boyd 3:27
6. "All the Things We've Never Done"   Craig Bickhardt, Jeff Pennig 3:24
7. "Two More Bottles of Wine"   Delbert McClinton 3:15
8. "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road"   Matraca Maria Berg, Tim Krekel 3:08
9. "You've Been Driving All the Time"   Stinson, Bunch 4:41
10. "Born to Give My Love to You"   Kennedy, Rose, Bunch 3:15
11. "Beyond the Blue"   David Kent, Ashe Underwood 2:25
Total length:
 38:06

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[6]

Musicians
  • Eddie Bayers - drums (tracks 2, 3, 4, 10)
  • Larry Byrom - electric guitar (tracks 5, 6)
  • Joe Chemay - bass guitar (all tracks), fretless bass (track 2)
  • Ashley Cleveland - background vocals (tracks 1, 7)
  • Rusty "Pedal" Danmyer - steel guitar (tracks 4, 7)
  • Dan Dugmore - electric guitar (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9), steel guitar (tracks 1, 8), Dobro (track 11)
  • Larry Franklin - fiddle (tracks 2, 5, 9), mandolin (track 5)
  • Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Kristin Wilkinson, Robert Mason - strings (tracks 10, 11)
  • Vicki Hampton - background vocals (track 1)
  • Levon Helm - background vocals (track 8)
  • John Hobbs - keyboards (track 1, 2, 4, 8-11), piano (tracks 3, 7)
  • Dann Huff - electric guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10)
  • Mary Ann Kennedy - background vocals (track 2)
  • Larry Marrs - background vocals (tracks 1, 8, 9, 11)
  • Martina McBride - lead vocals (all tracks), tambourine (tracks 1, 9), background vocals (tracks 4, 9, 10)
  • Steve Nathan - keyboards (tracks 5, 6)
  • Russ Pahl - steel guitar (tracks 5, 6)
  • Pam Rose - background vocals (tracks 2, 10)
  • Darrell Scott - mandolin (track 2)
  • Eric Silver - mandolin (track 10)
  • Harry Stinson - background vocals (tracks 1, 8, 11)
  • Billy Joe Walker, Jr. - acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4, 10)
  • Biff Watson - acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 5-9, 11)
  • Charlie Whitten - steel guitar (track 3)
  • Dennis Wilson - background vocals (tracks 3, 4, 5)
  • Lonnie Wilson - drums (tracks 1, 5-9)
  • Paul Worley - acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7-11), high-strung guitar (track 2), electric guitar (tracks 4, 11), six-string bass (track 4)
  • Curtis Young - background vocals (tracks 3, 4, 5)
Technical
  • Jim Burnett - digital editing
  • Dennis Burnside - string arrangements (tracks 10, 11)
  • Pete Green - overdubbing
  • Martina McBride - production
  • Mike Poole - overdubbing
  • Mike Psanos - overdubbing
  • Clarke Schleicher - overdubbing
  • Ed Seay - production, engineering, mixing, overdubbing
  • Paul Worley - production

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1995) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[7] 17
U.S. Billboard 200[7] 77
Canadian RPM Country Albums 4

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country CAN Country
1995 "Safe in the Arms of Love" 4[7] 38
"Wild Angels" 1[7] 5
1996 "Phones Are Ringin' All Over Town" 28[7] 24
"Swingin' Doors" 38[7] 41
1997 "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road" 26[7] 42

References

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