Emerson Drive
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Category Country, Rock, Rock / Pop Label Dreamworks Nashville Orig
Year 2002
Track # Song Title
1. Fall Into Me
2. Evidence
3. Passionate Desperate Love
4. Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)
5. Say My Name
6. I Should Be Sleeping
7. Light Of Day
8. Looking Over My Shoulder
9. I See Heaven
10. How Lucky I Am
11. Hollywood Kiss
12. It's All About You
Emerson Drive: Brad Mates (vocals); Pat Allingham (acoustic & electric
guitar, mandolin, fiddle, background vocals);
Danick Dupelle (acoustic & electric guitar, background vocals); Chris
Hartman (acoustic guitar, piano, organ,
synthesizer); Jeff Loberg (bass, background vocals); Mike Melancon
(drums, percussion, loops).
Producers: Julian King, James Stroud, Richard Marx.
Principally recorded at Ocean Way, Nashville, Tennessee.
If you're expecting range-riding, honky-tonk traditionalism from Canadian
country act EMERSON DRIVE, you're in for a
bit of a surprise. Unlike so many contemporary country artists, EMERSON
DRIVE doesn't tart up tired country formulas
with a few pop tricks and call it something new. Instead they go the
decidedly more difficult route of actually creating
something new. The various members of the band all sport various rock,
country, and pop influences, and everything
gets its fair shake in their sound.
The wide-open vocal harmonies and carefully arranged electric guitars
suggest that Emerson Drive has listened to the
Eagles more than once, but in their harder-rocking moments they leave
mellow '70s country-rock behind for something
entirely more modern (though equally radio-friendly). They toss off
a mean pop-country ballad as well, giving the ladies a
little something over which to swoon (not counting the photogenic
mugs of these young bucks, that is).
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