On February 7, 1995, “Polygram” label released “The Woman in Me”, the second Shania Twain studio album. It was recorded 1994 – 1995, at “Sound Stage Studio”, “Battery Studios”, “Javelina Recording Studios” and “Recording Arts” in Nashville, “A.R.P. Track Productions” in St. Anne Des Lacs, Quebec, Canada, and was produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange. In December 2000, the album was certified 12× Platinum by the RIAA in USA. In 2006, “The Woman in Me” was ranked number 8 on CMT’s list of “40 Greatest Albums in Country Music”.
Personnel:
- Shania Twain – lead and backing vocals, claps, footsteps
- Dann Huff – tic tac bass, lead guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, guitar textures, wa-wa guitar (Sic), jangle guitar, claps
- Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, Pedabro
- Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric rhythm guitar
- Brent Mason – lead guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar
- Billy Crain – slide guitar
- John Hughey – pedal steel guitar
- Brent Rowan – electric guitar textures
- Sam Bush – mandolin
- John Barlow Jarvis – piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
- Hargus “Pig” Robbins – piano
- David Hungate – bass guitar, fretless bass, double bass
- Paul Leim – drums, percussion, tambourine, shaker, door slam
- Terry McMillan – percussion, cowbell, harmonica, boot stomps
- Joe Spivey – fiddle
- Glen Duncan – fiddle
- Rob Hajacos – fiddle
- Nashville String Machine – string section
- Ronn Huff – string arrangements
- Nick Keca – claps
- Robert John “Mutt” Lange – backing vocals, claps
- Warren Peterson – engineer
- Simon Pressey – engineer
- Ron “Snake” Reynolds – engineer
- Nick Keca – engineer
- Lee Groitzsch – overdub engineer
- Brian Tankersly – overdub engineer
- Craig White – engineer assistant
- Robert Charles – overdub engineer assistant
- Wayne Morgan – overdub engineer assistant
Track listing:
All tracks by Shania Twain and Robert John Lange, except where noted
- Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
- Any Man of Mine
- Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
- (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!
- The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)
- Is There Life After Love?
- If It Don’t Take Two
- You Win My Love – Robert John Lange
- Raining on Our Love
- Leaving Is the Only Way Out – Shania Twain
- No One Needs to Know
- God Bless the Child
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