1997 studio album by Lila McCann
Lila is the debut album by American country music singer Lila McCann. Released in 1997 on Asylum Records, the album produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart: "Down Came a Blackbird" (#28), "I Wanna Fall in Love" (#3, McCann's highest-charting single), a cover of Sheena Easton's "Almost Over You" (#42) and finally, "Yippy Ky Yay" (#63). The album itself has been certified platinum by the RIAA for U.S. shipments of one million copies, and it was the highest-selling debut album by a country artist in 1997.
Personnel
Adapted from liner notes.[2]
- Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
- Dennis Burnside - piano
- Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Kim Carnes - background vocals (track 2)
- Stuart Duncan - fiddle, mandolin, dobro
- Dan Dugmore - steel guitar and electric dobro (track 2)
- Paul Franklin - steel guitar
- Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
- John Hobbs - piano, keyboards, additional piano and keyboard overdubs (tracks 1, 4, 5, 8)
- Dann Huff - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Jana King-Evans - background vocals (track 1)
- Liana Manis - background vocals (track 9)
- Brent Mason - electric guitar
- Lila McCann - lead vocals, background vocals
- Terry McMillan - harmonica (track 5)
- Mark Spiro - background vocals
- Lonnie Wilson - drums