Voices in the Wind (CD - 1992)

Personnel: Suzy Bogguss (vocals); Gerald Allen Boyd (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Bucky Baxter (electric & steel guitars); Brent Rowan (guitar, background vocals); Michael Henderson (slide guitar); Danny Dugmore (steel guitar, ebo); Mark O'Connor (fiddle); Sam Bush (mandolin); Kurt "Jelly Roll" Johnson, Jimmy Fadden (harmonica); Matt Rollings (piano, background vocals); Johnny Neel (keyboards); Leland Sklar (bass, background vocals); Eddie Bayers (drums, background vocals); Mark Morris (percussion, background vocals); Tom Roady (percussion); Harry Stinson, Ted Hewitt, Beth Nielson Chapman, Karen Staley, Mike Reid, Janie West, John Guess, Doug Crider, Abbe Medic (background vocals).

Recorded at Emerald Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.

Personnel: Suzy Bogguss (vocals, background vocals); Karen Staley (vocals, background vocals); Gerald Boyd (guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Vince Gill, Brent Rowan (guitar, background vocals); Mike Henderson (guitar); Gerald Allen Boyd (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Bucky Baxter (electric guitar); Michael J. Henderson, Michael Henderson (slide guitar); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar, lap steel guitar); Sam Bush (mandolin); Mark O'Connor (violin, fiddle); David Campbell (strings); Jelly Roll Johnson, Kurt Johnson , Jimmie Fadden (harmonica); Matt Rollings (piano, background vocals); John Jarvis (keyboards, synthesizer); John Neel, Johnny Neel (keyboards); Eddie Bayers (drums, background vocals); Mark Morris (percussion, background vocals); Tom Roady (percussion); The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Ted Hewitt, Greezy Spunes, Doug Crider, Crider Medic, Harry Stinson, Janie West, James West, Abe Medic, Jeff Hanna, Jimmy Ibbotson, John Guess, Leland Sklar, Mike Reid, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Bob Carpenter (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: John Guess; Marty Williams.

Recording information: Complex, Los Angeles, CA; Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, TN; Emrald Studio, Nashville, TN; Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN; Soundworks West, Los Angeles, CA; The Complex, Los Angeles, CA.

Photographer: Randee Saint Nicholas.

Unknown Contributor Role: Mike Henderson.

Arranger: David Campbell .

This sounded like one of those white-bread pop albums folks occasionally try to pawn off as country -- until you started listening to the lyrics. Voices in the Wind may have been bigger on string sections than twin fiddlers, but Bogguss' choice in covers remained just off-center enough to be exciting, with Cheryl Wheeler's "Don't Wanna" and Lowell George's "Heartache." She revived John Hiatt's "Drive South" for a hit. The more risky material -- especially the bleary-eyed blues of "Eat at Joe's" and the troubled alcoholic haze of Bogguss' own "In the Day" -- shows why the Country Music Association gave her its Horizon Award just before the release of this album. ~ Brian Mansfield minimize