Kicking Stones

Personnel: Johnny Reid (background vocals); Mark Selby (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin); Don Potter (acoustic guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Ilya Toshinsky (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Fats Kaplin (violin, fiddle); Connie Ellisor, Liz Stewart, Jim Grosjean, Anthony LaMarchina, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin (strings); Sam Levine (pennywhistle, saxophone); Jim Drury (bagpipe); Jim Hoke (harmonica); Tim Lauer (accordion, piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ); Mike Haynes (trumpet); Gordon Mote (piano); Chad Cromwell (drums, tambourine); Eric Darken (tambourine, percussion); Vicki Hampton (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Brent Maher.
Recording information: Soundkitchen, Franklin, TN; The Blue Room, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Richard Beland.
Released in early 2007, Kicking Stones became Johnny Reid's first platinum-selling album with its marketable mix of country, Celtic, and adult contemporary songwriting. Supported by five singles that all cracked the Canadian country charts -- not to mention a successful tour with Martina McBride and Little Big Town -- the record also paved the way for subsequent albums Dance with Me and A Place Called Love, both of which went double-platinum in Canada. ~ Andrew Leahey