Next Big Thing is the tenth studio album from American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 2003 on MCA Nashville, and it features four singles: the title track, "Someday", "Young Man's Town", and "In These Last Few Days". These respectively reached #17, #31, #44 and #51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in 2003.

Track listing

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

• Vince Gill – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin

• John Hobbs – keyboards, string arrangements (4, 5)

• Pete Wasner – keyboards

• Jim Hoke – accordion, autoharp, harmonica

• Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar

• Dean Parks – electric guitar

• Al Anderson – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 11), electric guitar (1, 3, 11)

• Tom Britt – slide guitar (1)

• John Hughey – steel guitar

• Willie Weeks – bass guitar

• Chad Cromwell – drums

• Eric Darken – percussion

• Stuart Duncan – fiddle

• Kirk Whalum – alto saxophone (1)

• Jim Horn – baritone saxophone (1), horn arrangements (1)

• Steve Herrman – trombone (1)

• Charles Rose – trumpet (1)

• The Nashville String Machine – strings (4, 5)

Harmony vocalists

• Bekka Bramlett (1, 11)

• Billy Thomas (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12)

• Harry Stinson (2, 12)

• Jeff White (3)

• Andrea Zonn (3)

• Michael McDonald (5)

• Kim Keyes (6, 10)

• Emmylou Harris (7)

• Dawn Sears (8, 14)

• Jenny Gill (9)

• Leslie Satcher (13)

• Lee Ann Womack (15)

• Amy Grant (17)

Production

• Vince Gill – producer, art direction

• Justin Niebank – recording, mixing

• David Bryant – recording assistant

• Sang Park – mix assistant

• Steve Bishir – overdub recording

• Steve Marcantonio – overdub recording

• J.C. Monterrosa – overdub recording assistant

• Hank Nirider – overdub recording assistant

• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)

• Traci Sterling Bishir – production manager

• Michelle Bentrem – production managing assistant

• Jim Kemp – art direction

• Karen Naff – design

• Andrew Eccles – photography

• Trish Townsend – wardrobe stylist

• Mary Beth Felts – hair, make-up

• The Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links