Texas Plates is the second album by the singer-songwriter Vince Bell. It was released on April 13, 1999, and found Bell comfortably ensconced in the upper echelon of the songwriting guild and signed to a major record label. Unfortunately, whatever marketing there was presented him as just another singer-songwriter, as if they were all cut from the same Texan cloth, and the album remains largely unheard.
Track listing "Poetry, Texas" "All Through My Days" "Push Comes to Shove" "2nd Street" "All The Way to the Moon" "Place to Call Our Own" "Best Is Yet to Come" "Have Not, Will Travel" "100 Miles from Mexico" "The Fair" "Last Dance at the Last Chance"
Song credits "All The Way to the Moon," "Best Is Yet to Come," "Have Not, Will Travel," "100 Miles from Mexico," "Place to Call Our Own," "Poetry, Texas": Vince Bell, TVB Publishing (BMI), administered by Bug Music "The Fair," "Push Comes to Shove," "2nd Street": Vince Bell, Bug Music (BMI)/TVB Publishing (BMI), administered by Bug Music "All Through My Days": Vince Bell and Connie Mims, Bug Music (BMI)/Black Coffee Music (BMI), administered by Bug Music "Last Dance at the Last Chance": Vince Bell, Bug Music (BMI)/Black Coffee Music (BMI), administered by Bug Music
Album cover The photograph on the front cover of the album is of Bell's great grandparents, Emily Louise and William Strickland, circa 1940s. According to the liner notes: "They sold gas and feed, flour and cold drinks, and anything else anyone needed from their general store on Highway 67, outside of Red Water, Texas."
Personnel Vince Bell – vocal, harmonies, guitar Pat Bergeson – harmonicas Lewis Brown – trombone Pat Buchanon – guitars, sitar Chris Carmichael – strings Robin Eaton – bass, baritone guitar, acoustic guitar, sitar, jaw harp Mickey Grimm – drums, percussion, cajón Dave Jacques – electric and acoustic bass Brad Jones – upright bass Al Perkins – banjo, steel, dobro, lap, pedal steel, Kona guitar Ross Rice – piano, bass, Moog, Vox organ, harmonium, Wurlitzer, Melodica, organ, vibes and Omnichord Elijah Shaw – E-Bow Aly Sujo – violin Fireworks - Tennessee State Fair Kami Lyle - guest vocalist Maura O'Connell - guest vocalist Alex Eaton - guest vocalist
Production Producer: Robin Eaton Engineer and Mixer: Elijah Shaw
Recorded and mixed at Alex The Great Recording, Nashville, Tennessee
Mastered by James DeMain, Nashville, TN
Reviews CD Shakedown review by Randy Krbechek, July 23, 1999 [ Allmusic review by Bill Ashford]
External links Vince Bell official site Vince Bell's MySpace page Daryn Kagan profiles Vince Bell Vince Bell's artist bio at the H.A.A.M. (Houston Association of Acoustic Musicians) website “Introducing the Vince Bell "Handmade Hardtop Acoustic Dreadnaught Line”: lutier Vince Pawless describes custom-making a guitar for Vince Bell