Heart Shaped Like Texas

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Personnel: Pat Severs (acoustic guitar, steel guitar); Tim Crouch (acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle); Robby Springfield (electric guitar, steel guitar); Michael Severs (electric guitar); Hoot Hester (fiddle); T.J. Clay (harmonica); Mike Kennedy (drums, percussion); Mark Beckett, Eddie Bayers (drums); John Wesley Ryles, Bart Busch, Monty Allen (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Chet Hinesley. Audio Remixer: Gregory Cole. Recording information: Cupit Recording Studio; HIlltop Studio, Nashville, TN; Raney Recording, Drasco, Arkansas; Station West, Nashville, TN. Photographer: Melissa Webb. Sammy Sadler is a journeyman country singer who has been recording since the late-1980s, but who suffered a serious career interruption when he was shot on Music Row in Nashville in the company of journalist Kevin Hughes, who was murdered as the result of a chart-fixing scheme. Sadler wasn't implicated in the scandal, but his career was derailed for a while. He reminds listeners of the incident in the closing track of HEART SHAPED LIKE TEXAS, "Thank God," the one song he co-wrote on the album, and while that might seem exploitative, it's also the only truly personal moment on the disc. Sadler has a warm, sturdy tenor voice, which he uses to convincingly render these 11 songs.The material spans familiar country styles: "I Wanna Be Loved by You" is country pop, "Heart Shaped Like Texas" is honky tonk/Western Swing, and "Thinking About Mexico" is Tex-Mex." There is also a strain of Christian religion that runs through the album, notably on "John 3:16."