Heroes

About Heroes

Heroes is the third studio album by American country music artist Paul Overstreet. The album was released by RCA Nashville in 1991. The album reached #17 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and charted at #21 on the Top Christian Albums chart. This album produced three top ten singles including Overstreet's first and only number 1 song, "Daddy's Come Around". Other singles and their peaks on the chart were "Heroes" (#4), "Ball and Chain" (#5), "If I Could Bottle This Up" (#30), and "Billy Can't Read" (#57).

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Paul Overstreet wrote or co-wrote every track on the album, most of them with Don Schlitz. Fellow country artists Pam Tillis and Trisha Yearwood sing background vocals as well as Christian Music singer Chris Rodriguez. On the LP release of the album, the songs "I'm So Glad I was Dreaming" and "Straight and Narrow" were not included, leaving the album with nine tracks.

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

Mike Brignardello – bass guitar

Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, pedabro

Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, mandolin

Rob Hajacos – fiddle

Christopher Harris – background vocals

Shane Keister – keyboards

Jana King – background vocals

Janie Lambert – background vocals

Paul Leim – drums

Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica, tambourine

Jerry McPherson – electric guitar, tremolo guitar, E-bow, gut string guitar

Mark O'Connor – fiddle

Paul Overstreet – lead vocals, background vocals

Don Potter – acoustic guitar

Chris Rodriguez – background vocals

Lisa Silver – background vocals

Pam Tillis – background vocals

Bergen White – background vocals

Bob Wray – bass guitar

Trisha Yearwood – background vocals

Reggie Young – electric guitar

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Notable quotes

“Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh — that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.”
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal entry dated 1 October 1849, Journal Intime (1882)
“A hero is an average person who has done something extraordinary.”
— Ann E. Dunwoody, A Higher Standard (2015)
“Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.”
— Stan Lee, Cyberspacers.
“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”
— Will Rogers nationally syndicated column number 114, Monuments Are All Right But Even Heroes Must Eat (1925).
“Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.”
— No man is a hero to his valet.
“These young heroes never gave up. Despite the dire situations and overwhelming obstacles that they encountered, these courageous kids found the inner strength to perservere during dangerous rescues. They did what they believed had to be done, no matter the risk, no matter the cost to their own safety. In every case, it was worth it- because these heroes saved lives.”
— Allan Zullo, The Rescuers (2006), New York: Scholastic, October 2006 first edition paperback, Ch. 1: Kid Heroes, p. 2

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