Without Regret

Personnel: Michael Chaves (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Izler (electric guitar); Zac Rae (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer); Aaron Sterling (drums, percussion); Marshall Altman (percussion, programming, background vocals); Allison Kaplan, Keely Hawkes Pressly (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Eric Robinson .
Recording information: Anarchy Studios, Nashville, TN (2009); El Dorado Studios, Burbank, CA (2009); The Galt Line, North Hollywood, CA (2009).
Photographers: Ari Michelson; Matt Beard.
Arranger: Marshall Altman.
Usually, American Idol also-rans deliver their post-show album immediately, because if they don't, they run the risk of being forgotten. Not Kimberly Caldwell. She took a whopping seven years to deliver her debut, Without Regret, staying in the pop culture spotlight for that three-quarters of a decade by appearing on TV and modeling campaigns, spending so much time at the fringes of the mass-market mainstream that it became easy to forget precisely why she was famous. Without Regret is designed as a reminder -- a full-blown, air-brushed, impeccably manicured collection of power ballads and updated arena rock designed to showcase Caldwell's strut, which is reminiscent of a slicker Kelly Clarkson. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine