Artist: Mindy McCready
Release Date: Apr 1996
Format: CD
Record Label: BNA
Genre: Country
UPC:
Sub-Genre: Contemporary Country
Duration: Album or EP

Track listing
1. Ten Thousand Angels
2. Guys Do It All the Time
3. All That I Am
4. Maybe He'll Notice Her Now - (featuring Richie McDonald)
5. Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do)
6. Have a Nice Day
7. It Ain't a Party
8. Without Love
9. Tell Me Something I Don't Know
10. Breakin' It


Details
Playing time: 35 min.
Contributing artists: Richie McDonald, Terry McMillan
Producer: David Malloy, Norro Wilson
Distributor: BMG (distributor)
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a


Album notes
Personnel: Mindy McCready (vocals); Don Potter, Tom Hemby, Larry Byrom (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Mary Ann Kennedy (mandolin, background vocals); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); Jimmy Nichols (strings, piano, keyboards, background vocals); The Nashville String Machine (strings); Terry McMillan (harmonica); John Hobbs (piano); Richard "Spady" Brannan (bass); Paul Leim (drums); Kathy Burdick, Norro Wilson (background vocals); Richie McDonald.
Engineers include: Kevin Beamish, David Malloy, Jimmy Nichols.
Recorded at Sound Stage, Malloy Boys Studio and Javelina Recording, Nashville, Tennessee.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Personnel: Mindy McCready (vocals); Don Potter, Larry Byrom, Tom Hemby (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff (electric guitar); Paul Franklin, Sonny Garrish (steel guitar); Mary Ann Kennedy (mandolin, background vocals); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); Nashville String Machine (strings); Terry McMillan (harmonica); John Hobbs (piano); Paul Leim (drums); Norro Wilson, Jimmy Nichols, Kathy Burdick (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Kevin Beamish.
Recording information: Javelina Recording, Nashville, TN; Malloy Boys Studio, Nashville, TN; Sound Stage, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Randee Saint Nicholas.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Carlos Grier; Don Cobb.
Arranger: Ronn Huff.
You should know this much, going in: Mindy McCready makes '90's Nashville music. Country-inflected, slick but slightly rocking, big-sounding, American music. Unlike so many of her Nashville sisters, however, McCready seems willing to tackle some real issues: double-standards in relationships, for instance. In pure, clear fashion, she twangs, "Get over it honey, love's a two-way street/Or you won't be a man of mine/Sure I had a few beers with the girls last night/Guys do it all the time."
But McCready isn't all brass and chutzpah. "Have A Nice Day" is unadulterated country at its best, an almost painful snapshot of two people separated by circumstance, yet precipitously close to being lovers. It's a song about what a woman wants to say, yet knows she can't. McCready delivers this tale with power and real emotion. It's a song about a moment, a real-life moment. Isn't that what country's all about?


Editorial reviews
...[she] serve[s] up a thoughtful program of postfeminist attitudes toward gender equality, love, and lust. That, combined with a fetching voice and winning melodies, makes McCready a welcome--and unusual--Nashville newcomer. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (05/03/1996)

3 stars out of 5 - ...A famously strong-willed personality, McCready favors songs that play on the dilemmas of young womanhood...
Q (07/01/1999)

...[she] serve[s] up a thoughtful program of postfeminist attitudes toward gender equality, love, and lust. That, combined with a fetching voice and winning melodies, makes McCready a welcome--and unusual--Nashville newcomer. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (05/03/1996)

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