4 Runner (album)

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4 Runner
Studio album by 4 Runner
Released	1995
Genre	Country
Label	Polydor Nashville
Producer	Buddy Cannon Larry Shell
4 Runner chronology
4 Runner (1995) Getaway Car (2003)

4 Runner is the debut album of the American country music group 4 Runner, released in 1995 on the Nashville division of Polydor Records. It produced the singles "Cain's Blood", "A Heart with a Four-Wheel Drive", and "Ripples", all of which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs charts. "Cain's Blood" was the group's only Top 40 hit, reaching #26 on the country charts. The other singles — "Ripples" and "A Heart with a Four-Wheel Drive" — both charted as well, although neither made Top 40 due to restructuring of Polydor at the time.

4 Runner was followed in 1996 by a second album entitled One for the Ages, on the A&M Records label; due to the closure of A&M, however, One for the Ages was not released, although its lead-off single "That Was Him (This Is Now)" charted. 4 Runner disbanded in 1996, and remained inactive until three of its four members (plus replacement vocalist Michael Lusk) recorded a second album entitled Getaway Car (which featured a re-recording of "The House at the End of the Road") in 2003.

"Oh No" was also recorded by Confederate Railroad on their 1995 album When and Where, while "A Heart with a Four-Wheel Drive" was later recorded by Canadian country band The Road Hammers on their 2005 self-titled debut album.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 4 Runner 2.2 Additional musicians 3 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "A Heart with a Four-Wheel Drive" (Billy Maddox, Paul Thorn) – 3:42
2. "Good Lookin'" (Chris East, Mickey Jupp) – 2:53
3. "Cain's Blood" (Michael Johnson, Jack Sundrud) – 3:52
4. "The House at the End of the Road" (Rock Killough, Larry T. Wilson) – 3:36
5. "Ripples" (Tony Haselden) – 3:25
6. "You Make the Moonlight" (Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro) – 2:51
7. "Oh No" (Al Anderson, Mike Lawler) – 3:55
8. "Let the Good Times Roll" (Tony Martin, Reese Wilson) – 3:31
9. "Home Alone" (Dennis Wilson, Craig Morris) – 2:30
10. "Southern Wind" (Walt Aldridge, James Hooker) – 4:26

[edit] Personnel

[edit] 4 Runner

• Jim Chapman – bass vocals
• Billy Crittenden – baritone vocals
• Lee Hilliard – tenor vocals
• Craig Morris – lead vocals

[edit] Additional musicians

• Glen Duncan – fiddle
• Larry Franklin – fiddle
• Sonny Garrish – Dobro, steel guitar
• Tony Haselden – acoustic guitar
• John Hobbs – piano
• Mike Lawler – synthesizer
• Paul Leim – drums
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Steve Nathan – organ, piano, synthesizer
• Danny Parks – acoustic guitar
• Larry Paxton – bass guitar
• Don Potter – acoustic guitar
• Matt Rollings – piano
• Reggie Young – electric guitar

All strings performed by the Nashville String Machine under the conduction of Carl Gorodetzky.

[edit] External links

• 4 Runner at All Music Guide