Sweetheart's Dance

Sweetheart's Dance
Studio album by Pam Tillis
Released	April 26, 1994
Genre	Country
Length	33:03
Label	Arista
Producer	Pam Tillis Steve Fishell
Pam Tillis chronology
Homeward Looking Angel (1992) Sweetheart's Dance (1994) All of This Love (1995)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Sweetheart's Dance is a 1994 album from American country music singer Pam Tillis. It is her highest ranking album on the Billboard charts, at number 6.

This album produced five singles: "When You Walk in the Room" (a cover of a Jackie DeShannon song), "Spilled Perfume", "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)", "I Was Blown Away" and "In Between Dances". Respectively, these reached #2, #5, #1, #16, and #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "I Was Blown Away" was withdrawn from radio after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" (Pam Tillis, Jess Leary) – 2:51
2. "Sweetheart's Dance" (Doug Gill) – 3:39
3. "Calico Plains" (Matraca Berg, Mike Noble) – 3:47
4. "When You Walk in the Room" (Jackie DeShannon) – 2:44
5. "Spilled Perfume" (Tillis, Dean Dillon) – 3:53
6. "I Was Blown Away" (Layng Martine, Jr.) – 2:45
7. "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To" (Roger Brown, Jason Sellers) – 2:57
8. "In Between Dances" (Craig Bickhardt, Barry Alfonso) – 3:21
9. "Better Off Blue" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge) – 2:52
10. "Til All the Lonely's Gone" (Tillis, Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill) – 3:55
    • duet vocals: Mel Tillis

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

• John Jorgenson – electric guitar, mandolin, acoustic guitar solo on "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)"
• Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Greg Leisz – steel guitar, electric rhythm guitar, Dobro
• Brent Mason, George Marinelli – electric guitar
• Bob DiPiero – 12-string guitar on "When You Walk in the Room"
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Sam Bush – fiddle
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Bill Monroe – mandolin solo on "Til All the Lonely's Gone"
• Steve Nathan – piano
• Bobby Ogdin – synthesizer
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano, accordion
• Mike Brignardello, Willie Weeks – bass guitar
• Milton Sledge – drums, percussion
• Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion
• Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica
• Harry Stinson – percussion
• Pam Tillis – lead vocals, background vocals
• Mel Tillis – duet vocals on "Til All the Lonely's Gone"
• Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey - vocal backing on "When You Walk in the Room"
• Ashley Cleveland, Vicki Hampton, Liana Manis - vocal backing on "Better Off Blue"
• Vince Gill - vocal backing on "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To"
• Mary Ann Kennedy - vocal backing on "Spilled Perfume"
• Suzy Ragsdale - vocal backing on "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" and "I Was Blown Away"
• Harry Stinson - vocal backing on "Sweetheart's Dance"
• Cindy Tillis Westmoreland, Connie Tillis Howden, Mel Tillis Jr. - vocal backing on "'Til All the Lonely's Gone"

Production

• Produced By Steve Fishell & Pam Tillis
• Engineered By Graham Lewis & Mike Poole, with assistance by Tony Collins, Eric Elwell, Steve Henning & Ed Simonton
• Mixed By Chuck Ainlay, with assistance by Graham Lewis
• Digital Editing: Don Cobb & Carlos Grier
• Mastered By Denny Purcell

Chart performance

Chart (1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
U.S. Billboard 200	51

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Sokol, David. "2000 Records to Die For". Stereophile. Retrieved 2008-08-05.