Wild Angels

Infobox Album
Name = Wild Angels
Type = studio
Artist = Martina McBride


Released = start date|1995|9|26
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = RCA Nashville
Producer = Paul Worley
Ed Seay
Martina McBride
Reviews = Allmusic – rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpfrxqehld6e link]
Last album = "The Way That I Am"
(1993)
This album = "Wild Angels"
(1995)
Next album = "Evolution"
(1997)

"Wild Angels" is a 1995 album by Martina McBride. The album produced the singles "Safe in the Arms of Love", "Wild Angels", "Swingin' Doors", "Phones Are Ringin' All over Town", and "Cry on the Shoulder of the Road". "Wild Angels" was McBride's first Number One on the Hot Country Songs charts.

Also included is a cover of "Two More Bottles of Wine", which was previously a Number One hit for Emmylou Harris in 1978. "Safe in the Arms of Love" was originally recorded by Baillie & the Boys on their 1989 album "Turn the Tide", and in 1994 by Michelle Wright on her 1994 album "The Reasons Why". Wright's version of the song was a Top Ten hit in Canada.

Track listing

#"Wild Angels" (Matraca Berg, Gary Harrison, Harry Stinson) – 3:44
#"Safe in the Arms of Love" (Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose, Pat Bunch) – 3:13
#"Phones are Ringin' All over Town" (David MacKenhie, Marc Beeson, Kin Vassy) – 3:31
#"A Great Disguise" (Greg Barnhill, Hillary Kanter, Even Stevens) – 4:03
#"Swingin' Doors" (Jim Foster, Chapin Hartford, Bobby Boyd) – 3:27
#"All The Things We've Never Done" (Craig Bickhardt, Jeff Pennig) – 3:24
#"Two More Bottles of Wine" (Delbert McClinton) – 3:15
#"Cry on the Shoulder of the Road" (Berg, Tim Krekel) – 3:08
#"You've Been Driving All the Time" (Stinson, Bunch) – 4:41
#"Born to Give My Love to You" (Kennedy, Rose, Bunch) – 3:15
#"Beyond the Blue" (David Kent, Ashe Underwood) – 2:25

Personnel

*Eddie Bayers – drums
*Larry Byrom – electric guitar
*Joe Chemay – bass guitar, fretless bass
*Ashley Cleveland – background vocals
*Rusty "Pedal" Danmyer – steel guitar
*Dan Dugmore – electric guitar, steel guitar, Dobro
*Larry Franklin – fiddle, mandolin
*Vicki Hampton – background vocals
*Levon Helm – background vocals
*John Hobbs – keyboards
*Dann Huff – electric guitar
*Mary Ann Kennedy – background vocals
*Larry Marrs – background vocals
*Martina McBride – lead vocals, background vocals, tambourine
*Steve Nathan – keyboards
*Russ Pahl – steel guitar
*Pam Rose – background vocals
*Darrell Scott – mandolin
*Eric Silver – mandolin
*Harry Stinson – background vocals
*Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – acoustic guitar
*Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
*Charlie Whitten – steel guitar
*Dennis Wilson – background vocals
*Lonnie Wilson – drums
*Paul Worley – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, hi-strung acoustic guitar, six-string bass guitar
*Curtis Young – background vocals

Strings on "Born to Give My Love to You" and "Beyond the Blue" performed by Carl Gorodetsky, Pamela Sixfin, Kristin Wilkinson, and Robert Mason, arranged by Dennis Burnside.

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Singles – Billboard (North America)