Making Plans Explained

Making Plans
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ricky Van Shelton
Cover:	Making Plans album cover by Ricky Van Shelton.jpg
Released:	October 27, 1998
Genre:	Country
Length:	35:42
Label:	Vanguard
Producer:	Steve Buckingham
Prev Title:	Love and Honor
Prev Year:	1995
Next Title:	Fried Green Tomatoes
Next Year:	2001

Making Plans is the eighth studio album by country music artist Ricky Van Shelton. This album was released exclusively through Wal-Mart, so it was unable to chart and no singles were released.^[1] This was Van Shelton's only release under the Vanguard label.

Track listing

1. ”Just Say Goodbye” (Joe Chambers, Byron Hill) – 2:11
2. ”When the Feeling Goes Away” (Merle Haggard) – 2:59
3. ”She Needs Me” (Chuck Cannon, Jimmy Stewart) – 3:15
4. ”Borrowed Angel” (Mel Street) – 3:11
5. ”I Wish You Were More Like Your Memory” (Joe Chambers) – 3:00
6. ”Tic Toc” (Brett Beavers, Troy Johnson) – 2:53
7. ”It Wouldn't Kill Me” (Larry Boone, Paul Nelson, Tom Shapiro) – 3:05
8. ”Making Plans” (Voni Morrison, Johnny Russell) – 2:14
9. ”He's Not the Man I Used to Be” (Gary Duffey, Micki Foster) – 3:35
10. “Our Love” (Deana Cox, Mike Geiger, Woody Mullis) – 2:59
11. ”The Best Thing Goin'” (Geiger, Michael Huffman, Mullis) – 3:16
12. ”The Best Is Yet to Come” (Colleen Peterson, Cyril Lawson, Nancy Simmonds) – 3:06

Personnel

• Victor Battista - upright bass
• Eddie Bayers - drums
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
• Steve Gibson - electric guitar, mandolin
• Roy Huskey Jr. - upright bass
• Liana Manis - background vocals
• Tom Robb - bass guitar
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins - piano, Wurlitzer
• Matt Rollings - Hammond organ, piano, Wurlitzer
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Ricky Van Shelton - lead vocals
• Joe Spivey - fiddle
• Bruce Watkins - acoustic guitar
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals

Notes and References

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=437&dat=19970908&id=s9QtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-jEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4565,2757848 The Nation - Sep 8, 1997