Texas Plates is the second album by the 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...

 Vince Bell

Vince Bell

Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...

. It was released on April 13, 1999 and found Bell comfortably ensconced in the upper echelon of the songwriting guild and signed to a major record label. Unfortunately, whatever marketing there was presented him as just another singer/songwriter, as if they were all cut from the same Texan cloth, and the album remains largely unheard.

Track listing

1. "Poetry, Texas"
2. "All Through My Days"
3. "Push Comes to Shove"
4. "2nd Street"
5. "All The Way to the Moon"
6. "Place to Call Our Own"
7. "Best Is Yet to Come"
8. "Have Not, Will Travel"
9. "100 Miles from Mexico"
10. "The Fair"
11. "Last Dance at the Last Chance"

Song Credits

• "All The Way to the Moon," "Best Is Yet to Come," "Have Not, Will Travel," "100 Miles from Mexico," "Place to Call Our Own," "Poetry, Texas": Vince Bell
  Vince Bell
  Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...
  
  , TVB Publishing (BMI), administered by Bug Music
• "The Fair," "Push Comes to Shove," "2nd Street": Vince Bell
  Vince Bell
  Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...
  
  , Bug Music (BMI)/TVB Publishing (BMI), administered by Bug Music
• "All Through My Days": ince Bell" and Connie Mims, Bug Music (BMI)/Black Coffee Music (BMI), administered by Bug Music
• "Last Dance at the Last Chance": Vince Bell
  Vince Bell
  Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...
  
  , Bug Music (BMI)/Black Coffee Music (BMI), administered by Bug Music

Album Facts

• The photograph on the front cover of the album is of Bell's great grandparents, Emily Louise and William Strickland, circa 1940s. According to the liner notes: "They sold gas and feed, flour and cold drinks, and anything else anyone needed from their general store on Highway 67, outside of Red Water, Texas."

Personnel

• Vince Bell
  Vince Bell
  Vince Bell is a Texas singer-songwriter who has appeared on the PBS television program Austin City Limits along with NPR broadcasts such as Mountain Stage, World Café and Morning Edition...
  
   - vocal, harmonies, guitar
• Pat Bergeson
  Pat Bergeson
  Pat Bergeson is an American guitarist, harmonica player and occasional songwriter. Based in Nashville, he is best known for his live and session work with Chet Atkins, Lyle Lovett and Suzy Bogguss.-Biography:...
  
   - harmonicas
• Lewis Brown - trombone
• Pat Buchanon - guitars, sitar
• Chris Carmichael - strings
• Robin Eaton - bass, baritone guitar, acoustic guitar, sitar, jaw harp
• Mickey Grimm - drums, percussion, cajón
  Cajón
  A cajón is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front face with the hands.-Origins and evolution:...
  
  
• Dave Jacques - electric and acoustic bass
• Brad Jones - upright bass
• Al Perkins
  Al Perkins
  Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....
  
   - banjo, steel, dobro, lap, pedal steel, Kona guitar
• Ross Rice - piano, bass, Moog, Vox organ, harmonium, Wurlitzer, Melodica, organ, vibes and Omnichord
• Elijah Shaw - E-Bow
  E-Bow
  The EBow or ebow is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar, invented by Greg Heet in 1969...
  
  
• Aly Sujo - violin
• Fireworks
  Fireworks
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  : Tennessee State Fair
• Kami Lyle: guest vocalist
• Maura O'Connell
  Maura O'Connell
  Maura O'Connell is an Irish singer and actress. She is known for her contemporary interpretations of Irish folk songs, strongly influenced by American country music.-Background:...
  
  : guest vocalist
• Alex Eaton: guest vocalist

Production

• Producer: Robin Eaton
• Engineer and Mixer: Elijah Shaw

Recorded and mixed at Alex The Great Recording, Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville 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...

Mastered by James DeMain, Nashville, TN

Album Reviews

• CD Shakedown review by Randy Krbechek, July 23, 1999
• [ Allmusic review by Bill Ashford]

External links

• Vince Bell official site
• Vince Bell's MySpace page
• Daryn Kagan profiles Vince Bell
• Vince Bell's artist bio at the H.A.A.M. (Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians) website
• “Introducing the Vince Bell "Handmade Hardtop Acoustic Dreadnaught Line”: lutier Vince Pawless describes custom-making a guitar for Vince Bell