Rissi Palmer by Rissi Palmer (CD, Oct-2007, 1720 ENTERTAINMENT LLC)

Album Features
UPC:	890531002013
Artist:	Rissi Palmer
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2007
Record Label:	1720 ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Genre:	Contemporary Country, Country

Track Listing
1. Hold on to Me
2. Country Girl
3. Anybody But There
4. Hurt Don't Know When to Quit
5. Mr. Ooh la La
6. All This Woman Needs
7. Flowers on My Window Ledge
8. Leavin' on Your Mind
9. Butterflies
10. Sweet Contradictions
11. Love You Like a Woman
12. I'm Not of This World

Details
Playing Time:	43 min.
Producer:	Keith Thomas, Dan Shea, Cory Rooney, Shannon Sanders, Drew Ramsey
Distributor:	E1 Distribution (USA)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Rissi Palmer (background vocals); Andrew Ramsey (vocals, electric guitar); Kim Keyes (vocals); Tom Bukovac (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Chris Rodriguez, John Willis, Biff Watson, Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar); Jeff King , Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greenberg, Will Owlsey, J.T. Corenflos (electric guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar, dobro); Robert Johnson (dobro); Jonathan Yudkin, Tammy King (mandolin, fiddle); Dan Shea (mandolin, programming); Illya Toshinksky, Aubrey Haynie (mandolin); John Pedersen, Stuart Duncan (fiddle); John Catchings (cello); Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson (harmonica); Keith Thomas (piano, bass guitar, programming); Tim Akers (piano); Dane Bryant, Shannon Sanders (keyboards); Dave Pomeroy , Glenn Worf, Jimmie Lee Sloas, Mike Brignardello, Steve Mackey , Mark Hill , Craig Nelson (bass guitar); Chris McHugh, Lonnie Wilson, Dan Needham, Shannon Forrest (drums); Javier Solís (percussion); Melonie Daniles, Perry Colemen, Lisa Cochran, Melodie Crittenden, Ron Hemby (background vocals); The Nashville String Machine.Although she isn't the product of American Idol or Nashville Star, Rissi Palmer has made her way through some of the talent shows that have taken an increased role in identifying young performers. She competed in Hal Jackson's Talented Teens (formerly known as the Miss Black America pageant) and made the finals on Star Search. It is not surprising, therefore, that as a singer she exhibits both the pipes and the somewhat artificial style of successful contestants. The songs on her self-titled debut album, three-quarters of which she had a hand in co-writing with Nashville pros, are the typical collection of romantic clichés that might have been expected. Her debut single, "Country Girl," which somehow took five people to write, attempts to be a crowd-pleasing anthem in the tradition of "Redneck Woman," but also to subtly address the issue that cuts both ways in her career, that she's an African-American from St. Louis trying to make it as a country singer in Nashville. The question of whether the novelty of that will help or hurt her is actually less pressing than whether she will develop from a good singer with a repertoire of second-hand vocal effects and second-rate songs into a sufficiently distinctive artist to matter. Rissi Palmer gets her over the first hump, which is establishing credibility. As the judges on those contests could tell, the sheer vocal talent is there. The debut album does no more than confirm that; now the real work begins. ~ William Ruhlmann