Breaking New Ground (Wild Rose album)

Breaking New Ground
Studio album by Wild Rose
Released	April 9, 1990
Genre	Country
Label	Capitol
Producer	James Stroud[1]
Wild Rose chronology
Breaking New Ground (1990) Straight and Narrow (1990)

Breaking New Ground is the debut album of American country music band Wild Rose. It was released on April 9, 1990 via Capitol Records.^[2] The album includes the singles "Breaking New Ground" and "Go Down Swingin'".

Critical reception

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

1. "Breaking New Ground" (Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley) — 2:54
2. "I Can't Lose What I Never Had" (Jim Rushing) — 2:25
3. "Go Down Swingin'" (Sandy Ramos, Jerry Vandiver) — 2:37
4. "Where Did We Go Wrong" (Paul Kramer) — 3:54
5. "Lonesome Highway (To the End of the Rainbow)" (Jackson, Lori Lee Yates) — 3:31
6. "On the Bayou" (Karen Staley) — 3:01
7. "Home Sweet Highway" (Pam Gadd) — 2:55
8. "Teach Me to Say Goodbye" (Pam Perry, Jan Buckingham) — 3:48
9. "Who Needs You" (Curtis Wright) — 2:48
10. "Easy to Say/Hard to Prove" (Don Schlitz, Beth Nielsen Chapman) — 2:46
11. "Wild Rose" (Nancy Given, Wanda Vick) — 2:16

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.^[1]

Wild Rose

• Pam Gadd — lead vocals, harmony vocals, banjo, acoustic guitar
• Nancy Given Prout — drums, harmony vocals
• Kathy Mac — bass guitar, harmony vocals
• Pam Perry — second lead vocals, harmony vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar
• Wanda Vick — electric guitar, fiddle, Dobro, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, lead acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

• Pat Flynn
• Sonny Garrish
• Carl Jackson
• John Barlow Jarvis
• Randy McCormick
• Bobbe Seymour
• "Hurricane" James Stroud

Technical

• Milan Bogdan — digital editing
• John Guess — mixing
• Glenn Meadows — mastering
• James Stroud — production
• Ron Treat — digital recording, overdubbing
• Wild Rose — arranging

Chart performance

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

References

1. Breaking New Ground (CD booklet). Wild Rose. Capitol Records. 1990. 93885.
2. "Breaking New Ground". Allmusic. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
3. Nash, Alanna (23 February 1990). "Breaking New Ground review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
4. "Wild Rose – Chart history" Billboard Top Country Albums for Wild Rose.