What Am I Waiting For

Infobox Album
Name = What Am I Waiting For
Type = studio
Artist = Heidi Newfield


Released = start date|2008|8|5
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 37:37
Label = Curb
Producer = Tony Browncite web |url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=1765 |title=Heidi Newfield readies solo debut |accessdate=2008-07-16 |date=2008-05-30 |work=Country Standard Time]
Reviews =
*Allmusic – rating|2.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifyxzwkldhe link]
* The 9513 – Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.the9513.com/album-review-heidi-newfield-what-am-i-waiting-for/ link]
*"Billboard" –  [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/albums/e3i78d3d905b45a67cfa53047c7c25c5f9f link]
*"Country Standard Time" – [http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=3948 link]
This album = "What Am I Waiting For"
(2008)
Next album = TBDSingles
Name = What Am I Waiting For
Type = Studio
single 1 = Johnny & June
single 1 date = 2008
single 2 =
single 2 date =

"What Am I Waiting For" is the debut solo album of American country music singer Heidi Newfield, formerly the lead vocalist in the group Trick Pony. It was released on August 5, 2008. Its lead-off single, "Johnny & June", has charted in the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs charts.

The track "Can't Let Go" was previously recorded by Lucinda Williams on her album "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road", and Ashley Monroe on her unreleased debut album "Satisfied". "Cry Cry ('Til the Sun Shines)" was previously recorded by Martina McBride on her 2007 studio album "Waking up Laughing". Former Trick Pony members Keith Burns and Ira Dean co-wrote the title track and "Nothin' Burns Like a Memory".

Track listing

#"Can't Let Go" (Randy Weeks) - 3:28
#"When Tears Fall Down" (Al Anderson, Leslie Satcher, Heidi Newfield) - 4:13
#"Johnny & June" (Stephony Smith, Deanna Bryant, Newfield) - 3:36
#"What Am I Waiting For" (Jeffrey Steele, Keith Burns, Ira Dean, Newfield) - 4:21
#"Love Her and Lose Me" (Dean Dillon, Dale Dodson, Newfield) - 4:16
#"Cry Cry ('Til the Sun Shines)" (Chris Lindsey, Aimee Mayo, Hillary Lindsey, Marv Green) - 3:19
#"Wreck You" (Lori McKenna, Felix McTeigue) - 3:48
#"Nothin' Burns Like a Memory" (Eric Silver, Burns, Dean, Newfield) - 2:52
#"All I Wanna Do" (Anderson, Newfield) - 4:14
#"Knocked Up" (Angaleena Presley, Mark D. Sanders) - 3:30

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [cite album-notes |title=What Am I Waiting For |bandname=Heidi Newfield |year=2008 |format=CD liner notes |publisher=Curb Records |publisherid= 79087]

*Ashley Cleveland – background vocals
*Leslie Craig – background vocals
*Dan Dugmore – lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
*Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
*Wes Hightower – background vocals
*Kim Keyes – background vocals
*Greg Morrow – drums
*Steve Nathan – piano, Wurlitzer, synthesizer
*Kim Parent – background vocals
*Chris Rodriguez – background vocals
*Eric Silver – background vocals
*Stephony Smith – background vocals
*Judson Spence – background vocals
*Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin
*Glenn Worf – bass guitar
*Reese Wynans – Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer
*Jonathan Yudkin – cello on "Johnny & June"

Charts

Album

References