The Whole SHeBANG is the debut album by the American country music

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...

 group SHeDAISY

SHeDAISY

SHeDAISY is an American country music group founded in the late 1980s by sisters Kristyn Robyn Osborn , Kelsi Marie Osborn , and Kassidy Lorraine Osborn from Magna, Utah...

. It was released on May 11, 1999 on Lyric Street Records

Lyric Street Records

Lyric Street Records was an American record label specializing in country music. The label was part of the Disney Music Group, owned by the The Walt Disney Company. President Randy Goodman, formerly a general manager for RCA Records, founded the label in 1997...

, and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America

Recording Industry Association of America

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. Singles from this album were "Little Good-Byes," "This Woman Needs," "I Will… But," "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)" and "Still Holding Out for You."

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine is a senior editor for Allmusic. He is the author of many artist biographies and record reviews for Allmusic, as well as a freelance writer, occasionally contributing liner notes. He is also frontman and guitarist for the Ann Arbor-based band Who Dat?Erlewine is the nephew...

 of Allmusic said that he did not consider the album country in sound, but still thought that the songs were well-executed, praising Kristyn Osborn's songwriting skills and the trio's vocal harmonies. He gave the album four stars out of five.

Track listing

1. "Little Good-Byes
   Little Good-Byes
   "Little Good-Byes" is the title of a song recorded by American country group SHeDAISY. It was released as the group's debut single, which served as the lead-off single to their debut album The Whole SHeBANG....
   
   " (Kenny Greenberg, Kristyn Osborn, Jason Deere) - 3:20
2. "I Will… But
   I Will… But
   "I Will... But" is the title of a song recorded by American country group SHeDAISY. It was the third single released from their debut album The Whole SHeBANG. It is SHeDAISY's highest-peaking single of their career, reaching #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, as well as...
   
   " (Osborn, Deere) - 3:40
3. "This Woman Needs
   This Woman Needs
   "This Woman Needs" is a single by American country music group SHeDAISY. Released in 1999, it was the second single from their debut album, The Whole SHeBANG. The song peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in March 2000. It also reached #18 on the RPM Country Tracks chart...
   
   " (Connie Harrington, Bonnie Baker, Osborn) - 3:20
4. "Before Me and You" (Osborn, Baker, Deere) - 3:09
5. "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)
   Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)
   "Lucky 4 You " is the title of a song recorded by American country group SHeDAISY. It was the fourth single released from their 1999 studio album The Whole SHeBANG.-Content:...
   
   " (Coley McCabe
   Coley McCabe
   Coley McCabe is an American country music singer. In 2000, she signed to RCA Records Nashville and released two singles. The first of these, "Grow Young with You" , was also included in the soundtrack to the 2000 film Where the Heart Is. A second single entitled "Who I Am to You" followed, but...
   
   , Osborn, Deere) - 4:00
6. "Still Holding Out for You" (Richard Marx
   Richard Marx
   Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard"...
   
   , Osborn) - 4:21
7. "Punishment" (Carolyn Dawn Johnson
   Carolyn Dawn Johnson
   Carolyn Dawn Johnson is a Canadian Juno Award winning country music singer-songwriter. Johnson first rose to fame by co-writing Chely Wright's 1999 Number One single, "Single White Female," which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1999...
   
   , Osborn) - 3:56
8. "'Cause I Like It That Way" (Hollie P. Poole, Osborn) - 3:44
9. "Without Your Love" (Stephony Smith, Cathy Majeski, Osborn) - 3:56
10. "A Night to Remember" (Bob Farrell, Osborn, Deere) - 4:41
11. "Dancing with Angels" (Austin Cunningham, Osborn) - 4:57

Studio musicians

• Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
  Drum kit
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• Eric Darken – percussion
• Dan Dugmore – 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...
  
  
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
   – steel guitar
• Gordon Kennedy
  Gordon Kennedy (musician)
  Gordon Kennedy is a multi Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer, world-class guitarist and visionary at the forefront of Nashville’s music community....
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Aubrey Haynie
  Aubrey Haynie
  Aubrey Haynie is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wrote himself...
  
   – fiddle
  Fiddle
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• John Hobbs – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Dann Huff
  Dann Huff
  Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...
  
   – electric guitar
• Tim Lauer – keyboards, electric piano
  Electric piano
  An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
  
  , accordion
  Accordion
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  , Hammond B-3 organ
• Paul Leim – drums
• B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An 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...
  
  
• Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
  
   – bass guitar
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Jonathan Yudkin – mandolin
  Mandolin
  A 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...
  
  

Chart performance

Chart (1999)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
U.S. Billboard 200	70
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	1
Canadian RPM Country Albums	4

The Whole SHeBANG: All Mixed Up

The album was re-released on September 25, 2001 as a remixed version entitled The Whole SHeBANG: All Mixed Up. The remix version received a two-star rating from Maria Konicki Dinoia of Allmusic, who said, "unless you're a hardcore SheDAISY fan, there really isn't anything excitingly new here or that you haven't heard already."

Track listing (All Mixed Up)

1. "Little Good-Byes" - 3:51
2. "I Will… But" - 4:28
3. "This Woman Needs" - 3:18
4. "Before Me and You" - 3:37
5. "Lucky 4 You (Tonight I'm Just Me)" - 5:36
6. "Still Holding Out for You" - 4:21
7. "Punishment" - 4:27
8. "'Cause I Like It That Way" - 5:01
9. "Without Your Love" - 5:30
10. "A Night to Remember" - 5:06
11. "Dancing with Angels" - 6:21

Chart performance (All Mixed Up)

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	30