Walking the Wire (album)

Walking the Wire is an album released by American country music singer Dan Seals. It was his first for the Warner Brothers label (ironically, the same label his older brother, Jim Seals, was once signed with as one half of Seals & Crofts). This album was a commercial failure. Three of its four singles charted, which were "Sweet Little Shoe" (peaked at number 62), "Mason Dixon Line" (peaked at number 43), and "When Love Comes Around the Bend" (peaked at number 51).[2] The B-side to "Mason Dixon Line", titled "Be My Angel", was later a non-album single for Lionel Cartwright, peaking at number 63 in late 1992.[3] The other single, "We Are One" failed to chart.

Walking the Wire
Studio album by Dan Seals
Released	May 12, 1992
Genre	Country
Length	35:30
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Jerry Crutchfield
Dan Seals chronology
Greatest Hits (1991) Walking the Wire (1992) Fired Up (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

1. "Mason Dixon Line" (Dan Seals) - 3:10
2. "When Love Comes Around the Bend" (Josh Leo, Pam Tillis, Mark Wright) - 2:40
3. "Someone Else's Dance" (Parker McGee) - 3:58
4. "Sneaky Moon" (Bill LaBounty) - 3:20
5. "A Good Rain" (Charlie Black, Jenny Yates) - 4:06
6. "Sweet Little Shoe" (Jesse Winchester) - 3:29
7. "Slower" (Tony Arata) - 3:19
8. "Maybe That's Why" (Allen Shamblin) - 3:06
9. "The Wire" (Seals) - 3:28
10. "We Are One" (Seals) - 4:54

Personnel

• Dan Seals – lead and backing vocals
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Brent Mason – guitar
• Brent Rowan – electric guitar
• Billy Joe Walker, Jr. – guitar
• Reggie Young – guitar
• Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
• Paul Franklin – dobro, steel guitar
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano
• Matt Rollings – piano, synthesizers
• David Hungate – bass
• Dave Pomeroy – bass
• Eddie Bayers – drums, tambourine
• Craig Krampf – drums
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Gove Scrivenor – autoharp
• Kenny Spears – fiddle
• Jim Horn – saxophone
• Robert Green – baritone saxophone
• Quitman Dennis – trombone
• Gary Burr – backing vocals
• Dennis Wilson – backing vocals
• Curtis Young – backing vocals

Production

• Producer – Jerry Crutchfield
• Production Coordinator – Jenny Johnson
• Engineers – Chuck Ainlay, Tim Kish and Lynn Peterzell.
• Assistant Engineers – Robert Charles, Graham Lewis and Craig White.
• Mixing – Chuck Ainlay and Chris Lord-Alge.
• Mix Assistants – Graham Lewis, John Thomas II and Craig White.
• Mastered by Glenn Meadows and Denny Purcell at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, TN).
• Art Direction – Virginia Team
• Design – Jerry Joyner
• Photography – Neal Preston

Singles

Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country
1991	"Sweet Little Shoe"	62	87
1992	"Mason Dixon Line"	43	66
	"When Love Comes Around the Bend"	51	93
	"We Are One"	-	-

References

1. Walking the Wire at AllMusic
2. Whitburn, Joel (2012). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2012. Record Research, Inc. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-89820-203-8.
3. Whitburn, p. 68