Personnel: Chely Wright (vocals); Fletcher "Biff" Watson, Billy Joe Walker, Jr. (acoustic & electric guitars); Ed Seay (acoustic guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar, dobro); Larry Franklin (mandolin, fiddle); Larry Byrom, Dann Huff (electric guitar); Joey Miskulin (accordion); John Hobbs (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer, synthesizer); Joe Chemay (bass); Eddie Bayers (drums); Butch Carr (triangle); Russ Zavitson, Jimmy Stewart, Lisa Ramsey, Mitch Shedd, Todd Culross, Tiffany Suiters (hand claps); Mark Lambert (drum programming); Dennis Wilson, Cindy Richardson Walker, John Wesley Ryles, Curtis "Mr. Harmony" Young, Anthony Martin, Wendell Mobley, Cindy Fee (background vocals).
Recorded at The Money Pit Recording Studio and Music Mill Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
Personnel: Chely Wright (vocals, background vocals); Paul Franklin (guitar, dobro); Biff Watson, Billy Joe Walker (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Ed Seay (acoustic guitar); Dann Huff, Larry Byrom (electric guitar); Larry Franklin (mandolin, fiddle); Joey Miskulin (accordion); John Hobbs (piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Eddie Bayers (drums); Butch Carr (triangle); Mark Lambert (programming); Cindy Fee, Cindy Richardson Walker, Curtis Young, Dennis Wilson , John Wesley Ryles, Anthony Martin, Wendell Mobley (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Ed Seay.
Recording information: Money Pit Recording Studio, Nashville, TN; Music Mill Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.
Editors: Carlos Grier; Don Cobb.
This 1996 album, Right in the Middle of It, is the sophomore offering from award-winning country singer Chely Wright. The recording is filled with both ballads and fast-paced numbers, and features plenty of natural country twang. Wright has enough vocal talents to handle the ballads and enough energy to carry the toe-tappers. This might only be her second album, but she's had plenty of singing experience, starting with family get-togethers when she was a small child, where singalongs with fiddles and guitars were the norm. Before she hit her teens she had already formed a country band of her own. Early on Wright was exposed to music greats like Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Connie Smith, and Conway Twitty. Many of those influences can be heard in the songs on Right in the Middle of It. Wright, also a gifted songwriter, penned three of the tunes on this album: "The Other Woman," "Gotta Get Good at Givin' Again," and the title track. ~ Charlotte Dillon minimize