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4 Runner (album)

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Released
  
1995

Genre
  
4 Runner(1995)
  
Getaway Car(2003)

Producer
  
Buddy Cannon, Larry Shell

4 Runner is the debut album of the American country music group 4 Runner, released in 1995 on the Nashville division of Polydor Records. It produced the singles "Cain's Blood", "A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive", "Home Alone", and "Ripples", all of which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs charts. Of these four single, "Cain's Blood" was the only one to chart within the Top 40, peaking at #26.

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Critical reception

Brian Wahlert of Country Standard Time criticized some of the songs on 4 Runner for "cop[ying] the worst pop elements" of The Oak Ridge Boys, but said that the presence of bass singer Jim Chapman gave the material a "fresh sound." His review praised "Cain's Blood" and "A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive" as the strongest tracks. Entertainment Weekly critic Alanna Nash gave the album a B-minus rating. In her review, she said that "they can be as hokey as the Oaks, but unlike the Statlers, they're sentimental without being mawkish."

4 Runner

  • Jim Chapman – bass vocals
  • Billy Crittenden – baritone vocals
  • Lee Hilliard – tenor vocals
  • Craig Morris – lead vocals
  • Additional musicians

  • Glen Duncan – fiddle
  • Larry Franklin – fiddle
  • Sonny Garrish – Dobro, steel guitar
  • Tony Haselden – acoustic guitar
  • John Hobbs – piano
  • Mike Lawler – synthesizer
  • Paul Leim – drums
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
  • Steve Nathan – organ, piano, synthesizer
  • Danny Parks – acoustic guitar
  • Larry Paxton – bass guitar
  • Don Potter – acoustic guitar
  • Matt Rollings – piano
  • Reggie Young – electric guitar
  • All strings performed by the Nashville String Machine under the conduction of Carl Gorodetzky.

    References

    4 Runner (album) Wikipedia


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