Take Me as I Am (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Take Me as I Am
Type = studio
Artist = Faith Hill


Released = October 12, 1993
Recorded = Woodland Recording Studios,
Midtown Tone and Volume,
and The Soundshop, Nashville, TN
Genre = Country
Length = 30:06
Label = Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer = Gary Burr
Mike Clute
Scott Hendricks
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zvse4j271wae~T1 link]
This album = "Take Me as I Am"
1993)
Next album = "It Matters to Me"
(1995)

"Take Me as I Am" is the debut album by country artist Faith Hill, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music) on Warner Bros. Records Nashville and has been certified 3× Multi-Platinum in the United States for sales of three million copies.

Four singles were released from the album. The first two — "Wild One" and "Piece of My Heart" — reached No. 1 on the "Billboard magazine" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1994. "Wild One," the tale of a rebellious teen-aged girl in conflict with her parents' more conservative ways, was the lead-off single, spending four weeks at No. 1 that January and giving Hill the longest-reigning chart-topping debut single for a female artist since 1964's "Once a Day" by Connie Smith.fact|date=April 2008

"Piece of My Heart," a cover of the 1968 song by Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin) was issued as the follow-up. The third single, "But I Will", failed to break the Top 30, but Hill's fourth release in late 1994 (the title track) reached No. 2.

Track listing

#"Take Me as I Am" (Bob DiPiero, Karen Staley) – 3:17
#"Wild One" (Jaime Kyle, Pat Bunch, Will Rambeaux) – 2:45
#"Just About Now" (Gary Burr, Jon Vezner) – 2:57
#"Piece of My Heart" (Bert Berns, Jerry Ragovoy) – 4:01
#"I've Got This Friend" (Faith Hill, Bruce Burch, Vern Dant) – 3:46
#*duet with Larry Stewart
#"Life's Too Short to Love Like That" (Sandy Ramos) – 2:37
#"But I Will" (Troy Seals, Eddie Setser, Larry Stewart) – 3:47
#"Just Around the Eyes" (Burr) – 3:07
#"Go the Distance" (Trey Bruce, Thom McHugh, Hill) – 3:02
#"I Would Be Stronger Than That" (Burr) – 4:48

ingles

*Wild One - September 1993
*Piece Of My Heart - January 13, 1994
*But I Will - May 12, 1994
*Take Me As I Am - Septmber 1994

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

All tracks except "Just Around the Eyes"

*Gary Burr - background vocals
*John Catchings - cello
*Bill Cuomo - synthesizer
*Stuart Duncan - mandolin, fiddle
*Paul Franklin - steel guitar, Dobro
*Dann Huff - electric guitar
*John Barlow Jarvis - piano
*Mary Ann Kennedy - background vocals
*Mark Luna - background vocals
*Brent Mason - electric guitar
*Terry McMillan - congas, cymbals, tambourine
*Don Potter - acoustic guitar
*Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
*Pam Rose - background vocals
*Victoria Shaw - background vocals
*Karen Staley - background vocals
*Larry Stewart - background vocals
*Cindy Richardson Walker - background vocals
*Ron Wallace - background vocals
*Lari White - background vocals
*Lonnie Wilson - drums

On "Just Around the Eyes"

*Gary Burr - background vocals
*Jerry Douglas - Dobro
*Rob Hajacos - fiddle
*Terry McMillan - percussion
*Edgar Meyer - acoustic bass guitar
*Harry Stinson - drums
*Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
*Glenn Worf - electric bass guitar

Production

*Producers: Gary Burr (all tracks except "Just Around the Eyes"); Mike Clute and Scott Hendricks ("Just Around the Eyes" only)
*Assistant producer: John Kunz
*Engineers: Mike Clute, John Kelton
*Assistant engineers: Jon "JD" Dickson, Amy Hughes, John Kunz, Shawn McLean, Wayne Morgan, Herb Tassin
*Mixing: Scott Hendricks
*Mastering: Denny Purcell
*Overdubs: Scott Hendricks, John Kunz
*Art direction: Laura LiPuma
*Design: Garrett Rittenberry
*Photography: Aaron Rapoport
*Make-up: Eric Bernard, Beth Katz

Charts

Album

- Billboard (North America)