Gravitational Forces
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Gravitational Forces is an album
by Texas
-based country
/folk
singer-songwriter
Robert Earl Keen
. It was first released in the United States
on August 7, 2001
on Lost Highway.
One reviewer described this album, Keen's ninth, as being "just a hair more to the country side of the folk-rock-country axis than ever before." Indeed, producer
and multi-instrumentalist
Gurf Morlix
, and the various long-time members of Keen's own road band did not shy away from including fiddle
solos and steel guitar
s in the mix when they suit Keen's songs. "I wanted to keep a real natural, organic sound," says Morlix, "My job as producer varies from artist to artist. I help them find the sound they want and then do what it takes to get that on record."
As usual, Keen's songwritng is full of narrative
stories and character sketch
es. Performing Songwriter described the characters found in Gravitational Forces as "everyday people pulled, led, and sometimes dragged by some outside strength." Billboard
noted, however, that Keen's more recent tales avoid some of the violent
imagery
found in some of his earlier songs. Keen has admitted, "Yeah, the body count
's a little lower this time."
Keen began recording the album after his previous label, Arista Austin had closed down, and before finding his new, albeit brief, home on Lost Highway Records. "When we started this project I hadn't made a deal with any record company," Keen says, "I just knew I would have a deal one way or another." The release arrived at a time when Keen was beginning to receive wider recognition outside of his home state of Texas. As of 2007, Gravitational Forces remains Keens highest charting album on several of Billboard's charts (see below).
's often-covered classic, "I Still Miss Someone
" to Townes Van Zandt
's more obscure "Snowin' on Raton". Keen and his band also cover the traditional blues, "Walkin' Cane" in what has been described as a "rowdy, back-porch take," and treat Terry Allen's "High Plains Jamboree" with a backdrop of "bar room party sounds."
The cover that reviewers most recognize as a choice pick to match Keen and his career outside of mainstream music is Joe Dolce
's "Hall of Fame". Keen sings:
Keen's own songs provide many of the albums highlights. "Wild Wind" is a harmonica-heavy minor key introduction to a series of tragic small-town characters, that will leave some listeners wanting to know more. Keen says that some of the characters that populate his songs are based upon "dead on real people" while others are composites
. In "Wild Wind", he says, "there's a character that just sort of walks around town and sells papers. He's a mixture of about three or four guys that I know... In general I try to keep with real people, because I feel like you always want to have some hint of the truth where it makes it feel real to you."
"Not a Drop of Rain" is Keen's personal favorite from the album, "It's a very emotional song, written out of thinking what would happen if I lost everything I have." The song has a somewhat unusual guitar accompaniment played in DADGAD
tuning and its structure eschews the traditional verse/chorus/verse song structure. Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin
fell in love with the song and began performing it. Her version was recorded in studio and released in 2002 on a compilation by radio station KGSR.
Keen's "Goin' Nowhere Blues" has been described as "chilling" and contains references to Langston Hughes
, Woody Guthrie
, Martin Luther King, Ceasar Chavez, and down-and-out union workers. Keen manages to connect the tragic aspects of all these disparate lives.
The title track, "Gravitational Forces", has been described as "sort of experimental" by some and "bizarre" or "hysterical" by others. Keen delivers a spoken stream of consciousness on the "temporal distortion
of a four-hour sound check," complete with a free jazz
accompaniment that caused one reviewer to liken it to Allen Ginsberg
's reading of "Howl
" backed by the Kronos Quartet
.
Although one reviewer indicates that the closing track is Keen's first studio release of his own live signature song, "The Road Goes On Forever", Keen first recorded the song for his 1989 album West Textures
. In the earlier recording the track was five minutes long, just enough to relate the plot twists in Keen's story. This time it's a seven minute build-up to some intense and lengthly instrumental solos.
In an August 2001 taping of Austin City Limits
, Keen and his band gave a live performance including many of these same songs. This was released in 2004 as the album, Live From Austin, TX.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
-based country
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...
/folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
. It was first released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on August 7, 2001
2001 in music
See also:* 2001 in music Record labels established in 2001-Events:*January 1**Comeback of Guns N' Roses in House of Blues**Hum disbands.*January 17 – Bass player Jason Newsted leaves Metallica after 14 years with the band....
on Lost Highway.
One reviewer described this album, Keen's ninth, as being "just a hair more to the country side of the folk-rock-country axis than ever before." Indeed, producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
and multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
Gurf Morlix
Gurf Morlix
Gurf Morlix is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer residing for many years in Austin, Texas. He has worked with many of the best known performers of Americana and alternative country music. His most notable works include albums by Lucinda Williams, Robert...
, and the various long-time members of Keen's own road band did not shy away from including 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...
solos and 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...
s in the mix when they suit Keen's songs. "I wanted to keep a real natural, organic sound," says Morlix, "My job as producer varies from artist to artist. I help them find the sound they want and then do what it takes to get that on record."
As usual, Keen's songwritng is full of narrative
Narrative
A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...
stories and character sketch
Character sketch
A character sketch is an abbreviated portrayal of a particular characteristic of people. The term originates in portraiture, where the character sketch is a common academic exercise. Following the translation of Theophrastus's Characters into English, a number of British and American painters...
es. Performing Songwriter described the characters found in Gravitational Forces as "everyday people pulled, led, and sometimes dragged by some outside strength." Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
noted, however, that Keen's more recent tales avoid some of the violent
Violence
Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...
imagery
Image
An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...
found in some of his earlier songs. Keen has admitted, "Yeah, the body count
Body count
A body count is the total number of people killed in a particular event. In combat, a body count is often based on the number of confirmed kills, but occasionally only an estimate.-Military use:...
's a little lower this time."
Keen began recording the album after his previous label, Arista Austin had closed down, and before finding his new, albeit brief, home on Lost Highway Records. "When we started this project I hadn't made a deal with any record company," Keen says, "I just knew I would have a deal one way or another." The release arrived at a time when Keen was beginning to receive wider recognition outside of his home state of Texas. As of 2007, Gravitational Forces remains Keens highest charting album on several of Billboard's charts (see below).
Song selection
The songs on the album that Keen didn't write range from Johnny CashJohnny 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...
's often-covered classic, "I Still Miss Someone
I Still Miss Someone
"I Still Miss Someone" is the title of a song written and originally recorded by American country music singer Johnny Cash. He first recorded it in 1958 as the b-side to "Don't Take Your Guns to Town".-History:...
" to Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...
's more obscure "Snowin' on Raton". Keen and his band also cover the traditional blues, "Walkin' Cane" in what has been described as a "rowdy, back-porch take," and treat Terry Allen's "High Plains Jamboree" with a backdrop of "bar room party sounds."
The cover that reviewers most recognize as a choice pick to match Keen and his career outside of mainstream music is Joe Dolce
Joe Dolce
Joseph "Joe" Dolce is an American-born, Australian singer/songwriter who achieved fame with his multi-million-selling song, "Shaddap You Face", released under the name of his one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, in 1980...
's "Hall of Fame". Keen sings:
| My Home ain't in the hall of fame |
| You can go there you won't find my name |
| And my songs don't belong on top forty radio |
| I'll keep the old back forty for my home. |
Keen's own songs provide many of the albums highlights. "Wild Wind" is a harmonica-heavy minor key introduction to a series of tragic small-town characters, that will leave some listeners wanting to know more. Keen says that some of the characters that populate his songs are based upon "dead on real people" while others are composites
Composite character
A composite character is a character composed of two or more individuals, appearing in a fictional or non-fictional work. Two fictional characters are often combined into one upon adaptation of a work from one medium to another, as in the film adaptation of a novel...
. In "Wild Wind", he says, "there's a character that just sort of walks around town and sells papers. He's a mixture of about three or four guys that I know... In general I try to keep with real people, because I feel like you always want to have some hint of the truth where it makes it feel real to you."
"Not a Drop of Rain" is Keen's personal favorite from the album, "It's a very emotional song, written out of thinking what would happen if I lost everything I have." The song has a somewhat unusual guitar accompaniment played in DADGAD
DADGAD
DADGAD, D modal tuning or Celtic tuning is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music, though it has also found use in rock and other genres. Instead of the standard EADGBE tuning, the six guitar strings are tuned, from low to high, DADGAD...
tuning and its structure eschews the traditional verse/chorus/verse song structure. Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
fell in love with the song and began performing it. Her version was recorded in studio and released in 2002 on a compilation by radio station KGSR.
Keen's "Goin' Nowhere Blues" has been described as "chilling" and contains references to Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
, Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
, Martin Luther King, Ceasar Chavez, and down-and-out union workers. Keen manages to connect the tragic aspects of all these disparate lives.
The title track, "Gravitational Forces", has been described as "sort of experimental" by some and "bizarre" or "hysterical" by others. Keen delivers a spoken stream of consciousness on the "temporal distortion
Quantum singularity (fiction)
In science fiction, the term quantum singularity is used to refer to many different phenomena, which often approximately resemble a gravitational singularity in the scientific sense in that they are massive, localized distortions of space and time...
of a four-hour sound check," complete with a free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
accompaniment that caused one reviewer to liken it to Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
's reading of "Howl
Howl
"Howl" is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955 and published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems. The poem is considered to be one of the great works of the Beat Generation, along with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch...
" backed by the Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...
.
Although one reviewer indicates that the closing track is Keen's first studio release of his own live signature song, "The Road Goes On Forever", Keen first recorded the song for his 1989 album West Textures
West Textures
West Textures is an album by Texas-based folk singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, released in the United States in 1989 on Sugar Hill. It is notable for the track "The Road Goes On Forever" which has become one of Keen's signature songs and has been covered by other bands including the country...
. In the earlier recording the track was five minutes long, just enough to relate the plot twists in Keen's story. This time it's a seven minute build-up to some intense and lengthly instrumental solos.
In an August 2001 taping of Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits
Austin City Limits is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas by Public Broadcasting Service Public television member station KLRU, and broadcast on many PBS stations around the United States...
, Keen and his band gave a live performance including many of these same songs. This was released in 2004 as the album, Live From Austin, TX.
Track listing
- All tracks written by Robert Earl Keen, except where noted.
- "My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame" (Joe DolceJoe DolceJoseph "Joe" Dolce is an American-born, Australian singer/songwriter who achieved fame with his multi-million-selling song, "Shaddap You Face", released under the name of his one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, in 1980...
) – 3:04- Robert Earl KeenRobert Earl KeenRobert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
— lead vocals - Rich Brotherton — acousticAcoustic guitarAn 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...
& electric lead guitarsElectric guitarAn 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... - Bill Whitbeck — bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
& harmony vocalsHarmonyIn music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic... - Gurf MorlixGurf MorlixGurf Morlix is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer residing for many years in Austin, Texas. He has worked with many of the best known performers of Americana and alternative country music. His most notable works include albums by Lucinda Williams, Robert...
— steelSteel guitarSteel 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...
, electric & baritone guitarBaritone guitarThe baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...
s and harmony vocals - Tom Van Schaik — drumsDrum kitA 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 ....
- Robert Earl Keen
- "Hello New Orleans" – 3:01
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars
- Ian McLaganIan McLaganIan McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...
— Hammond B-3 organ - Gurf Morlix — beer bottle slide guitarSlide guitarSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
- Bill Whitbeck — upright bass & harmony vocals
- Tom Van Schaik — drums
- "Wild Wind" – 5:12
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic guitar & harmony vocals
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar, harmony vocals, harmony concept & vocal arrangement
- Gurf Morlix — acoustic & baritone guitars
- Cody Braun — harmonica
- Tom Van Schaik — drums
- "Not a Drop of Rain" – 4:09
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic guitar
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar & harmony vocals
- Bryan Duckworth — mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
- Gurf Morlix — beer bottle slide guitar
- Ian McLagan — Hammond B-3 organ
- Tom Van Schaik — drums
- "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny CashJohnny CashJohn 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...
, Roy Cash) – 3:19- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic & electric guitars and harmony vocals
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar & harmony vocals
- Bryan Duckworth — fiddleFiddleThe 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...
& mandolin - Tom Van Schaik — drums
- "Fallin' Out" – 3:25
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic guitar
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar & harmony vocals
- Gurf Morlix — electric & lap steel guitarLap steel guitarThe lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....
s and harmonium - Tom Van Schaik — drums & percussionPercussion instrumentA 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...
- "High Plains Jamboree" (Terry Allen) – 3:10
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic, electric & baritone guitars
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar & tic-tac bass guitar
- Tommy Delamore — steel guitar
- Byran Duckworth — fiddle
- Tom Van Schaik — drums
- "Bar Room Party Sound" — Kathy Brotherton, Rich Brotherton, Gurf Morlix, Laurie Galbraith & Robert Earl Keen
- "Walkin' Cane" (traditional, arranged by Robert Earl Keen) – 4:43
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — slide, electric & National slide guitarsNational String Instrument CorporationThe National String Instrument Corporation was a guitar company that formed to manufacture the first resonator guitars.-National resonator guitar designs:...
guitars and harmony vocals - Bill Whitbeck — upright bass & harmony vocals
- Bryan Duckworth — fiddle
- Gurf Morlix — mandolin
- Tom Van Schaik — drums & percussion
- "Goin' Nowhere Blues" – 4:47
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic guitar
- Bill Whitbeck — upright bass
- Ian McLagan — Hammond B-3 organ
- Gurf Morlix — acoustic & electric guitars
- Tom Van Schaik — drums & percussion
- "Snowin' on Raton" (Townes Van ZandtTownes Van ZandtJohn Townes Van Zandt , best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American Texas Country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet...
) – 5:01- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — electricguitar & harmony vocals
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar & harmony vocals
- Marty Muse — steel guitar
- Freddie Fletcher — pizza box percussion
- "Gravitational Forces" – 2:41
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — acoustic guitar
- Bill Whitbeck — bass guitar
- Tom Van Schaik — drums & percussion
- "The Road Goes On Forever" – 7:10 †
- Robert Earl Keen — lead vocals
- Rich Brotherton — electric & baritone guitars and mandolin
- Bill Whitbeck — bass
- Ray Kennedy — electric guitar
- Marty Muse — steel guitar
- Tom Van Schaik — drums
Production
- ProducedRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
by Gurf Morlix & Robert Earl Keen- Recorded by Stuart Sullivan at Arlyn Studios, Austin, TexasAustin, TexasAustin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
- MixedAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
by Gurf Morlix at Arlyn Studios, Austin, Texas - MasteredAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
by Hank Williams and Gurf Morlix at MasterMix, Nashville, TennesseeNashville, TennesseeNashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
- Recorded by Stuart Sullivan at Arlyn Studios, Austin, Texas
- † "The Road Goes on Forever" produced by Ray Kennedy
- Recorded by Ray Kennedy at Arlyn Studios, Austin, Texas
- Additional recording at Room and Board Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
- Mixed by Chuck Ainlay in BackStage at Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
- Mastered by Hank Williams at MasterMix, Nashville, Tennessee
Management
- ManagementManagementManagement in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
— Rosetta Management, Bandera, TexasBandera, TexasBandera is the county seat of Bandera County, Texas, United States,in the Texas Hill Country, which is part of the Edwards Plateau. The population was 957 at the 2000 census, and according to a 2009 estimate, the population had jumped up to 1,216 people... - Booking — Monterey Peninsula Artists, Inc.
Artwork
- Art directionArt directorThe art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
— Robert Earl Keen, Jim Kemp & Karen Naff - DesignDesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
— Karen Naff - PhotographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
— Glen Rose
Chart performance
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
111 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 10 |