Real Life (Jeff Carson album)

Real Life
Studio album by Jeff Carson
Released	September 4, 2001
Recorded	2001
Genre	Country
Length	37:13
Label	Curb
Producer	Max T. Barnes Justin Niebank
Jeff Carson chronology
Butterfly Kisses (1997) Real Life (2001)

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Real Life is the third studio album to be released by American country music artist Jeff Carson. It contains the single "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)", a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country music charts in mid-2001 and Carson's first Top 40 country hit since 1996's "Holdin' On to Something". None of the other singles from this album were Top 40 hits, although "Shine On" — originally released in 1998 — reached Number One on the PowerSource Christian charts.

Justin Niebank produced Tracks 1, 3, and 4, with songwriter Max T. Barnes producing the rest.

Track listing

1. "Real Life (I Never Was the Same Again)" (Jim Janosky, Neil Thrasher) – 4:24
2. "My One and Only Love" (Max T. Barnes, Harlan Howard) – 4:20
3. "Until We Fall Back in Love Again" (Jeff Carson, Philip Douglas, Jim Weatherly) – 3:51
4. "I Almost Never Loved You" (Jennifer Bibeau, Brian Ede Nash, Rivers Rutherford) – 3:50
5. "Shine On" (Jim Daddario, Tony Marty) – 3:31
6. "Where Did I Go So Right" (Jim Collins, Craig Wiseman) – 3:39
7. "What's Not to Love" (Max T. Barnes, Trey Bruce) – 3:04
8. "Divine Intervention" (Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin, Mark D. Sanders) – 3:19
9. "It Wouldn't Kill Me" (Larry Boone, Paul Nelson, Tom Shapiro) – 3:15
10. "Scars and All" (Carson, Weatherly) – 3:53

Personnel

• Kelly Back – electric guitar
• Max T. Barnes – bass guitar, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, background vocals
• Larry Beaird – acoustic guitar
• Jeff Carson – lead vocals
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
• Vicki Hampton – background vocals
• Tony Harrell – keyboards
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Yvonne Hodges – background vocals
• B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Chris McHugh – drums
• The Nashville String Machine – strings
• Steve Nathan – keyboards
• Justin Niebank – keyboards
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
• John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
• Scotty Sanders – pedal steel guitar
• Leslie Satcher – background vocals
• Lisa Silver – background vocals
• Catherine Styron – keyboards
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Production credits

• Tracks 2, 5–10 produced by Max T. Barnes
• Tracks 1, 3 and 4 produced by Justin Niebank

Chart performance

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	38
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	29

References

• Allmusic (see infobox)