This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All explained

This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All
Type:	studio
Artist:	Sawyer Brown
Cover:	sawyerttcwahia.jpg
Released:	August 29, 1995
Studio:	Muscle Shoals (Sheffield, Alabama) La La Land (Louisville, Kentucky) Scruggs Sound Studio (Nashville, Tennessee) Recording Arts (Nashville, Tennessee) Javelina (Nashville, Tennessee) Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:	Country
Length:	36:30
Label:	Curb
Producer:	^[1]
Prev Title:	Greatest Hits 1990-1995
Prev Year:	1995
Next Title:	Six Days on the Road
Next Year:	1997

This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All is the eleventh studio album by American country music band Sawyer Brown. Their fourth studio album for Curb Records, it produced four hit singles on the Billboard country music charts between 1995 and 1996: the title track, "'Round Here", "Treat Her Right", and "She's Gettin' There". "She's Gettin' There" was also the band's first single since 1991's "Mama's Little Baby Loves Me" to miss the country Top 40.

Critical reception

Gary Graff and Brian Mansfield, in MusicHound Country: The Essential Album Guide, wrote that the album "continues to hone the band's direction as 'small town heroes'...The first three singles from the album...are probably the strongest trio of hits the group has ever had."^[2]

Personnel

Sawyer Brown

• Mark Miller – lead vocals
• Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard – keyboards, backing vocals
• Duncan Cameron – guitars, mandolin, steel guitar, backing vocals
• Jim Scholten – bass
• Joe "Curley" Smyth – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• John Hobbs – acoustic piano
• James Hooker – keyboards
• Mike Lawler – synthesizers
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Matt Rollings – acoustic piano
• Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• JayDee Maness – steel guitar
• Roger Hawkins – drums, percussion
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• The "A Strings" – strings (3)
• Jim Ed Norman – string arrangements (3)
• Bergen White – string arrangements (3)

Production

• Mark Miller – producer
• Mac McAnally – producer, additional recording
• Alan Schulman – recording, mixing
• Ken Hutton – additional recording, recording assistant, mix assistant
• Steve Lowery – additional recording, recording assistant, mix assistant
• Kent Bruce – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Robert Charles – recording assistant
• Michelle Rahmani – recording assistant
• King Williams – recording assistant
• Paula Montondo – mix assistant
• Don Cobb – digital editing
• Denny Purcell – mastering
• Hank Williams – mastering
• Buddy Jackson – art direction, design
• Peter Nash – photography

Studios

• Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios (Sheffield, Alabama); La La Land Studio (Louisville, Kentucky); Scruggs Sound Studio, Recording Arts, Javelina Sound Studios and Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Mixed at Scruggs Sound Studio, Sound Emporium and GroundStar Studios (Nashville, Tennessee); The Castle (Franklin, Tennessee).
• Mastered at Georgetown Masters and MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee).

Chart performance

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	10
U.S. Billboard 200	77

Notes and References

1. This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All . Sawyer Brown . 1995 . CD booklet . Curb Records . D2-77785.
2. Book: Mansfield. Brian. Brian Mansfield. Graff. Gary. Gary Graff. MusicHound Country: The Essential Album Guide. registration. 1997. Visible Ink.