True Believer (Ronnie Milsap album) explained

True Believer
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Ronnie Milsap
Cover:	True believer.jpg
Released:	June 7, 1993
Recorded:	GroundStar Laboratory (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre:	Country
Length:	43:12
Label:	Liberty
Producer:	Rob Galbraith Ronnie Milsap
Prev Title:	Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	The Essential Ronnie Milsap
Next Year:	1995

True Believer is the twenty-first studio album by country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in 1993, his first for Liberty Records. The album produced two singles, the title track, which peaked at #30 on country charts and "I'm Playing for You," which did not chart.

The album did not chart, his first to do so since his 1971 self-named debut album. Allmusic praised the title track, stating that the record would have been one "to reckon with" if the rest of the tracks "had the energy" of the title song.

Production

• Rob Galbraith – producer
• Ronnie Milsap – producer
• Mike Clute – recording, mixing
• Keith Odle – recording, mixing, digital editing
• Randy Gardner – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Milan Bogdan – digital editing
• Glenn Meadows – mastering
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – editing and mastering location
• The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA) – mastering location
• Tamera Bennett – session coordinator
• Jamie West – song selection assistance
• Sherri Halford – creative direction
• Virginia Team – art direction
• Jerry Joyner – design
• Randee St. Nicholas – photography
• Beverly Patterson – hair stylist, make-up
• Linda Hill – wardrobe stylist

Personnel

• Ronnie Milsap – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
• John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards
• Shane Keister – keyboards, synthesizers, programming
• Brian D. Siewart – synthesizers
• Jay Spell – keyboards
• Catherine Styron – keyboards
• Marc Beeson – acoustic guitar
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Bruce Dees – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals
• John Hiatt – acoustic guitar
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Walt Aldridge – electric guitar
• Jamie Brantley – electric guitar, backing vocals
• Larry Byrom – electric guitar
• Dann Huff – electric guitar
• Russ Pahl – electric guitar
• Reggie Young – electric guitar
• John Willis – gut-string guitar (8)
• Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Warren Gowers – bass guitar
• Alison Prestwood – bass guitar
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
• Bob Wray – bass guitar
• James Ferguson – upright bass
• Darryl Holden – drums
• Kenny Malone – drums
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica
• Farrell Morris – percussion
• Sam Levine – saxophones, horn arrangements
• Mike Haynes – trumpets
• Ava Aldridge – backing vocals
• Jana King – backing vocals
• Marie Lewey – backing vocals
• Cindy Richardson-Walker – backing vocals
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals

Chart

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Top Country Albums	align="center"	-
U.S. Billboard 200	align="center"	-

Singles

Year	Song	US Country
1993	"True Believer"	30
1993	"I'm Playing for You"	align="center" valign="top"	-

References

• Cooper, Dan. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r184358|pure_url=yes}} True Believer], Allmusic.