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Take Me as I Am (Faith Hill album)

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Released
  
October 12, 1993

Artist
  
Faith Hill

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
34:07

Release date
  
12 October 1993

Genre
  
Country music

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Recorded
  
Woodland Recording Studios, Midtown Tone and Volume, and The Soundshop, Nashville, Tennessee, US

Producer
  
Scott Hendricks, Michael Clute, Gary Burr

Take Me as I Am (1993)
  
It Matters to Me (1995)

Similar
  
Faith Hill albums, Country music albums

Take Me as I Am is the debut studio album by country singer Faith Hill, released in 1993 by Warner Bros. Records. It has been certified 3× platinum in the United States for sales of three million copies, and has sold 4.3 million copies worldwide.

Contents

Four singles were released from the album. The first two — "Wild One" and "Piece of My Heart" — reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1994. "Wild One," the tale of a rebellious teen-aged girl in conflict with her parents' more conservative ways, was the lead-off single, spending four weeks at No. 1 that January.

"Piece of My Heart", a cover of the 1967 song by Erma Franklin, was issued as the follow-up. The third single, "But I Will", failed to break the Top 30, but Hill's fourth release in late 1994 (the title track) reached No. 2.

Track listing

All tracks produced by Scott Hendricks; except "Just Around the Eyes" produced by Michael Clute and Gary Burr.

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

All tracks except "Just Around the Eyes"

  • Gary Burr – background vocals
  • John Catchings – cello
  • Bill Cuomo – synthesizer
  • Stuart Duncan – mandolin, fiddle
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar, Dobro
  • Dann Huff – electric guitar
  • John Barlow Jarvis – piano
  • Mary Ann Kennedy – background vocals
  • Mark Luna – background vocals
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar
  • Terry McMillan – congas, cymbals, tambourine
  • Don Potter – acoustic guitar
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
  • Pam Rose – background vocals
  • Victoria Shaw – background vocals
  • Karen Staley – background vocals
  • Larry Stewart – background vocals
  • Cindy Richardson Walker – background vocals
  • Ron Wallace – background vocals
  • Lari White – background vocals
  • Lonnie Wilson – drums
  • On "Just Around the Eyes"

  • Gary Burr – background vocals
  • Jerry Douglas – Dobro
  • Rob Hajacos – fiddle
  • Terry McMillan – percussion
  • Edgar Meyer – acoustic bass guitar
  • Harry Stinson – drums
  • Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
  • Glenn Worf – electric bass guitar
  • Production

  • Producers: Gary Burr (all tracks except "Just Around the Eyes"); Mike Clute and Scott Hendricks ("Just Around the Eyes" only)
  • Assistant producer: John Kunz
  • Engineers: Mike Clute, John Kelton
  • Assistant engineers: Jon "JD" Dickson, Amy Hughes, John Kunz, Shawn McLean, Wayne Morgan, Herb Tassin
  • Mixing: Scott Hendricks
  • Mastering: Denny Purcell
  • Overdubs: Scott Hendricks, John Kunz
  • Art direction: Laura LiPuma
  • Design: Garrett Rittenberry
  • Photography: Aaron Rapoport
  • Make-up: Eric Bernard, Beth Katz
  • Songs

    1Take Me as I Am3:18
    2Wild One2:45
    3Just About Now2:57

    References

    Take Me as I Am (Faith Hill album) Wikipedia