The Heart Of The Matter

(# 1 top country album)
(# 51 top pop album)

RCA Victor AJL1-7023
Sep / 1985

Produced by George Martin

Billy Joe Walker, Fred Tackett, Ian Bairnson, Michael Landau, Paul Jackson, Steve Lukather - guitar
Joe Chemay, John Robinson, Mo Foster, Nathan East, Neil Stubenhaus - bass
Stuart Elliott - drums
Ann Dudley, Jeremy Lubbock, Jimmy Cox, John Hobbs - keyboards
David Foster - synthesizer
Steve Leach - percussion
Gary Grant, Jerry Hey - trumpet
Gary Herbig, Lawrence Williams - sax
Bill Reichenbach - trombone
Gayle Levant - harp
Strings:
Arnold Belnick, Assa Drori, Bill Hybel, Bruce Dukow, Buell Neidlinger, David Schwartz,
Dennis Karmazyn, Denyse Buffum, Don Palmer, Fred Seykora, Gareth Nuttycombe,
Gordon Marron, Isabelle Daskoff, Israel Baker, Jay Rosen, Kathleen Lenski,
Mari Botnick, Marshall Sosson, Ray Kelley, Reg Hill, Robert Sushel, Ronald Folsom,
Shari Zippert, Sheldon Sanov, Stuart Canin, Bill Nuttycombe, William Hymanson
Vocals:
Joe Chemay, Kin Vassy, Kenny Rogers II, Richard Marx, Terry Williams
Arrangements by George Martin
Recorded:
1985, Lion Share Studio, Los Angeles
Engineering: Terry Christian, Jon Kelly