Evolution (Martina McBride album)

Infobox Album
Name = Evolution
Type = studio
Artist = Martina McBride


Released = start date|1997|8|26
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = RCA Nashville
Producer = Paul Worley
Dan Shea
Martina McBride
"Still Holding On" produced by Clint Black and James Stroud
Reviews =
*Allmusic – rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9fpxq9jldke link]
Last album = "Wild Angels"
(1995)
This album = "Evolution"
(1997)
Next album = "White Christmas"
(1998)

"Evolution" was the fourth album released by Martina McBride. It is one of her biggest selling albums to date being certified 3× Multi-platinum. It included the hit singles "Happy Girl", "A Broken Wing" and "Valentine", the latter of which became her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as her first major crossover hit. The song "I'm Little But I'm Loud" is a recording of McBride when she was seven years old, while "Valentine" is a re-recording of a song which Brickman and McBride previously released from his 1997 album "Picture This". The original "Picture This" version charted at #3 on the AC charts and #68 on the country charts, while the re-recording featured here was a Top Ten country hit.

Also released from this album was "Still Holding On", a duet with Clint Black, which was concurrently released on Black's 1997 album "Nothin' but the Taillights". "Valentine", "Happy Girl", "Wrong Again", and "Whatever You Say" were all released as singles as well.

Track listing

#"I'm Little But I'm Loud" (Little Jimmy Dickens, Boudleaux Bryant) – 0:56
#"Happy Girl" (Beth Nielsen Chapman, Annie Roboff) – 3:27
#"Be That Way" (Bob DiPiero, Stephony Smith) – 3:34
#"A Broken Wing" (James House, Sam Hogin, Phil Barnhart) – 3:34
#"Wrong Again" (Cynthia Weil, Tommy Lee James) – 3:15
#"Keeping My Distance" (Jimmy Davis, Don Smith, Tommy Burroughs) – 3:51
#"Still Holding On" (Marty Stuart, Matraca Berg, Clint Black) – 3:57
#*feat. Clint Black
#"Whatever You Say" (Ed Hill, Tony Martin) – 4:29
#"I Won't Close My Eyes" (Kevin Montgomery, Larry Gottlieb) – 3:38
#"I Don't Want to See You Again" (Jackson Leap) – 3:00
#"Some Say I'm Running" (Michael W. Smith, Brent Bourgeois) – 4:05
#"Here in My Heart" (Susan Ashton, Gayla Borders) – 3:51
#"One Day You Will" (Richard Leigh, Shane Teeters) – 2:36
#"Valentine" (Jim Brickman, Jack Kugell) – 3:22
#*feat. Jim Brickman

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)

Singles – Billboard (North America)

References

*Allmusic (see infobox)