Gloriana http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Music/Gloriana-Gloriana/0093624975427

Artist: Gloriana

• Personnel: Tom Gossin, Tom Gossin (vocals, guitar, piano); Mike Gossin (vocals, guitar); Cheyenne Kimball (vocals, mandolin); Rachel Reinert (vocals, tambourine); Tim Pierce (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Tom Bukovac (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, slide guitar, dobro, banjo, mandolin); Ilya Toshinsky (acoustic guitar, banjo, bouzouki); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar, dobro); Aubrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Gabe Witcher (fiddle); Matt Serletic (strings, accordion, piano, organ, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards, bass synthesizer, programming); Stevie Blacke (strings); Patrick Warren (organ, Wurlitzer organ, chamberlin, programming); Glenn Worf (upright bass); Kenny Aronoff (drums, percussion); Chris McHugh (drums, programming); Mike Leisz, Alex Arias (hand claps).
  
• Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Justin Niebank.
  
• Recording information: Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN; Emblem Studios, Calabasas, CA.
  
• Photographer: Kristin Barlowe.
  
• Gloriana's stylized synthesis of Fleetwood Mac and '70s Californian country-rock is designed to elicit astonished gasps of "they sure don't make them like this anymore"--which is more or less true, especially when the group's composition is taken into the equation. Gloriana is an old-fashioned construction of a band, assembled mainly from old pros who haven't quite hit the big time yet -- although Cheyenne Kimball, veteran of America's Most Talented Kid and her own MTV reality show in 2006, came close. The group has been put through major-label machinations, singing songs from professional songwriters, and produced by Matt Serletic, best-known for his work with Matchbox 20 and Collective Soul, and now launching his own Emblem label with Gloriana as its flagship debut artist. Serletic co-wrote the bulk of the songs on the group's self-titled debut, steering the band toward a bright, melodic crossover country-pop that greatly emphasizes the latter. Sometimes, this approach is entirely too slick, particularly when the rhythms are pounding too hard on "Wild at Heart" and "You Said," but at their best, Gloriana can evoke the forgotten charms of '70s studio-centric soft rock in both its mellow and rocking incarnations.