Spark is the debut studio album of American country music singer Drake White . It was released on August 19, 2016 via Dot Records , an imprint of Big Machine Records . The album has produced three singles, "It Feels Good", Livin' the Dream " and "Makin' Me Look Good Again", all of which have reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. White co-wrote eleven of the album's twelve tracks.
Spark Released August 19, 2016 (2016-08-19 ) Genre Country Length 42 :19 Label Dot Producer
It Feels Good (2015)
Spark (2016)
"It Feels Good" Released: February 24, 2015
"Livin' the Dream " Released: December 7, 2015
"Makin' Me Look Good Again" Released: December 5, 2016
Ross Copperman and Jeremy Stover produced all tracks except for track 10, with assistance from White on tracks 3, 6, 7, and 8. Andrew Petroff and Adam Schwind produced track 10.
Commercial reception
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The album debuted at No. 34 on Billboard 200, and No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, selling 11,000 copies in its first week.[ 1] It has sold 58,900 copies in the US as of September 2017.[ 2]
Title Writer(s) 1. "Heartbeat" 3:27 2. "Story" 3:14 3. "Makin' Me Look Good Again" 3:59 4. "It Feels Good" 2:40 5. "Livin' the Dream " 3:09 6. "I Need Real" 3:41 7. "Back to Free" 3:59 8. "Equator" 4:07 9. "Live Some" 3:38 10. "Waitin' on the Whiskey to Work" 4:01 11. "Elvis"
White
Jeremy Spillman
Ryan Tyndell
3:07 12. "Take Me as I Am"
White
Phil Barton
Lindsay Rimes
3:17 Total length: 42:19
Musicians
Jon Aanestad – harmonica
Joe Andrews – electric guitar
Paul Armstrong – trumpet
Zac Brown – background vocals
Clay Cook – background vocals
Ross Copperman – acoustic guitar , electric guitar, keyboards , background vocals
Sam Damewood – fiddle
Jimmy de Martini – background vocals
Kris Donegan – electric guitar
Fred Eltringham – drums
Shannon Forrest – drums
Mark Hill – bass guitar
John Driskell Hopkins – background vocals
Carolyn Dawn Johnson – background vocals
Jaren Johnston – background vocals
Jason Lehning – keyboards
Tony Lucido – bass guitar
Matt McDaniel – banjo , acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, electric sitar
Miles McPherson – drums
Jimmy Nichols – keyboards
Billy Nobel – keyboards
Phillip Pence – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele
Andrew Petroff – percussion
Ethan Pilzer – bass guitar
Danny Rader – banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Mike Rojas – keyboards
Adam Schwind – drums, percussion, background vocals
Carlos Sosa – saxophone
Dawn Soul – tambourine
Russell Terrell – background vocals
Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Raúl Vallejo – trombone
Derek Wells – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Drake White – lead vocals
Production
Natthaphol Abhigantaphand – production assistant
Daniel Bacigalupi – production assistant
Joe Baldridge – engineer
Adam Bokesch – production assistant
Drew Bollman – production assistant
Ross Copperman – digital editing, engineer, producer, programming
Paul Cossette – production assistant
Andrew Darby – production assistant
Brian David – digital editing
Steve Dewey – production assistant
Angella Grossi – production assistant
Bob Holland – engineer mixing
Travis Humbert – production assistant
Scott Johnson – production coordination
Allison Jones – A&R
Laurel Kittleson – production coordination
Jason Kyle – engineer
Nick Lane – engineer
Jasper Lemaster – production assistant, engineer
Andrew Mendelson – mastering
Buckley Miller – engineer, mixing
Justin Niebank – mixing
Andrew Petroff – engineer, producer
Richard Ridgell – production assistant
Lindsay Rimes – programming
Adam Schwind – producer
Reid Shippen – engineer, mixing
Brianna Steinitz – production coordination
Jeremy Stover – producer
Drake White – producer
Chris Wilkinson – production assistant