Believe (Emerson Drive album)

Believe is the sixth studio album by Canadian country music group Emerson Drive. The album was released in Canada on May 5, 2009 via Midas/Valory/Open Road. The album's first single, "Belongs to You," reached the top forty on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in the United States.^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The 9513	^[3]

The album received mixed reviews from music critics. It received a three-and-a-half star rating from Todd Sterling of AllMusic, who said that the album was "slickly produced" and that it "sticks to the well-worn formula of the group's previous releases," but said that it had "every color of the musical rainbow."^[2] Sterling cited "Your Last" as a standout, calling it a "lump-in-the-throat masterpiece."^[2] Jim Malec of The 9513 gave it one star out of five, referring to the song's lyrics as largely cliché in nature and saying, "There is not a single song on Believe worth hearing. It is an entirely disposable album that is unoriginal, uninteresting and unnecessary."^[3] Malec also criticized the album's sound, saying that the mixing of instruments and Brad Mates' vocals did not seem cohesive.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"That Kind of Beautiful"	Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey, Gordie Sampson	3:11
2.	"Believe"	Josh Leo, Shawn Colvin	3:50
3.	"Belongs to You"	Dave Berg, Rivers Rutherford, Tom Shapiro	3:48
4.	"I Love This Road"	Brad Mates, Tommy Lee James	3:46
5.	"Livin' It Up"	Marty Dodson, Jason Sellers, Jimmy Yeary	3:04
6.	"Your Last"	Lisa Carver, Laird	3:43
7.	"Life Down Here"	Mates, Leo, Tim Nichols	3:07
8.	"The Extra Mile"	Bonnie Baker, Paul Sikes	4:09
9.	"Too Much"	Danick Dupelle, Mates, Adrienne Follesé, Keith Follesé	3:18
10.	"That Was Us"	Dupelle, Mates, Berg, Mike Mobley	3:06

Personnel

Emerson Drive

Danick Dupelle - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
Brad Mates - lead vocals
Mike Melancon - drums
David Pichette - fiddle
Dale Wallace - keyboards, piano, background vocals

Additional Musicians

David Angell - violin
John Catchings - cello
David Davidson - violin
Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
Charlie Judge - keyboards, synthesizer
Greg Morrow - drums
Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
Ilya Toshinsky - acoustic guitar
Kris Wilkinson - string arrangements, viola
Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Chart performance

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	CAN	US Country
2008	"Belongs to You"	73	32
2009	"Believe"	73	—
	"I Love This Road"	86	—
	"The Extra Mile"	96	—
2010	"That Kind of Beautiful"	80	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Release history

Region	Date	Format
Canada	May 5, 2009	CD, digital download
United States	April 2011	digital download

References

↑ Billboard
1 2 3 Sterling, Todd. "Believe - Emerson Drive". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
1 2 3 Male, Jim (May 28, 2009). "Emerson Drive - Believe". The 9513. Archived from the original on May 30, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2009.

Emerson Drive

Brad Mates Danick Dupelle Mike Melancon Dale Wallace Pat Allingham Chris Hartman Jeff Loberg Dan Binns David Switzer Remi Barre Derrick Kuzemchuk Dan Bauman Patrick Bourque David Pichette

Albums	Open Season Until You Walk the Tracks Emerson Drive What If? Countrified Believe Decade of Drive Roll Tilt-a-Whirl

Notable singles	"I Should Be Sleeping" "Fall into Me" "Only God (Could Stop Me Loving You)" "Last One Standing" "A Good Man" "Moments" "You Still Own Me" "Belongs to You" "That Kind of Beautiful" "She's My Kind of Crazy" "Let It Roll" "Wake Me Up" (w/ Tebey)

Related articles	Discography DreamWorks Records Midas Records Valory Music Group

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