Breaking New Ground (Wild Rose album)

Breaking New Ground is the debut studio album by American country music band Wild Rose. Originally issued in 1988 via Universal Records, it was rereleased on April 9, 1990 via Capitol Records.[2] The album includes the singles "Breaking New Ground" and "Go Down Swingin'".

Breaking New Ground
Studio album by
Released1988
GenreCountry
LabelUniversal
Capitol (reissue)
ProducerJames Stroud[1]
Wild Rose chronology
Breaking New Ground
(1988)
Straight and Narrow
(1990)
Singles from Breaking New Ground
  1. "Breaking New Ground"
    Released: August 1989
  2. "Go Down Swingin'"
    Released: January 13, 1990

Critical reception

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Giving it a "B", Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the band offers a kicky program of country-rock, bluegrass, Texas swing, Louisiana spice, honky-tonk, and jazzy 'dawg' music…Little of this is combined into a cohesive sound, but whatever Wild Rose is, it's never boring."[3]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Breaking New Ground"Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley2:54
2."I Can't Lose What I Never Had"Jim Rushing2:25
3."Go Down Swingin'"Sandy Ramos, Jerry Vandiver2:37
4."Where Did We Go Wrong"Paul Kramer3:54
5."Lonesome Highway (To the End of the Rainbow"Jackson, Lori Lee Yates3:31
6."On the Bayou"Karen Staley3:01
7."Home Sweet Highway"Pam Gadd2:55
8."Teach Me to Say Goodbye"Pam Perry, Jan Buckingham3:48
9."Who Needs You"Curtis Wright2:48
10."Easy to Say/Hard to Prove"Don Schlitz, Beth Nielsen Chapman2:46
11."Wild Rose"Nancy Given, Wanda Vick2:16

Personnel

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Compiled from liner notes.[1]

Wild Rose
  • Pam Gadd – lead vocals, background vocals, banjo, acoustic guitar
  • Nancy Given Prout – drums, background vocals
  • Kathy Mac – bass guitar, background vocals
  • Pam Perry – lead vocals, background vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar
  • Wanda Vick – electric guitar, fiddle, Dobro, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, acoustic guitar
Additional musicians
Technical
  • Milan Bogdan – digital editing
  • John Guess – mixing
  • Glenn Meadows – mastering
  • James Stroud – production
  • Ron Treat – digital recording, overdubbing
  • Wild Rose – arranging

Chart performance

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Chart (1990) Peak
position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[4] 44

References

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  1. ^ a b Breaking New Ground (CD booklet). Wild Rose. Capitol Records. 1990. 93885.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ "Breaking New Ground". Allmusic. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  3. ^ Nash, Alanna (23 February 1990). "Breaking New Ground review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 21, 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  4. ^ "Wild Rose Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard.