The Key is the eighth studio album from American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 1998 on MCA Nashville. It features the singles "If You Ever Have Forever in Mind," "Kindly Keep It Country," "Don't Come Cryin' to Me" (an uncredited duet with Dawn Sears) and "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man." This final track was also included on Patty Loveless's 1999 compilation album, Classics. This was Gill's first No. 1 Country Album.
Contents
Track listing
All songs written by Vince Gill except where noted.
Personnel
Compiled from liner notes.
The band
Vince Gill – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Hargus "Pig" Robbins – keyboards, acoustic piano
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Randy Scruggs – acoustic guitar
John Hughey – steel guitar
Glenn Worf – bass
Eddie Bayers – drums
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
Larry Franklin – fiddle
Bergen White – string arrangements and conductor
Patty Loveless – vocals on "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man"
Background vocalists
Bergen White – BGV arrangements
Dawn Sears (Track 1)
Lisa Cochran, Michael Eldred, Jon Mark Ivey, Marabeth Jordan, Lisa Silver and Dennis Wilson (Track 2)
Sara Evans (Track 3)
Lee Ann Womack (Track 4)
Liana Manis and Curtis Young (Track 5)
Shelby Lynne (Tracks 6 & 8)
Sonya Isaacs, Billy Thomas and Jeff White (Track 9)
Alison Krauss, Billy Thomas and Jeff White (10)
Sonya Isaacs (Track 11)
Faith Hill (Track 12)
Production
Tony Brown – producer
Chuck Ainlay – recording, mixing
Steve Marcantonio – recording
Tim Coyle – second engineer
Steve Crowder – second engineer
Chris Davie – second engineer
Todd Gunnerson – second engineer
Mark Ralston – second engineer
Glenn Spinner – second engineer
Aaron Swihart – second engineer
Denny Purcell – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee)
Benny Garcia – guitar technician
Jessie Noble – project coordinator
Virginia Team – art direction
Chuck Ferrara – design
Jim "Señor" McGuire – photography