Rebecca St. James - If I Had One Chance to Tell You Something

Throughout her career Rebecca St. James has been a bit of a musical chameleon, dabbling in electronica, folk, and traditional praise & worship settings. But like all good vocalists, she rises to the occasion and adapts with great ease to whatever the canvas presents to her. This time around she finds herself in the trenches of the highly polished, extremely commercial alternative rock sound throughout "If I Had One Chance to Tell You Something." The driving sound of "Alive," "You Are Loved," and "Shadowland" brings to mind tonal qualities normally found in Linkin Park or Coheed & Cambria, but only if they were filtered through having tea with the Cranberries with lyrics emerging from a wholly Christian perspective. Like on most of her releases, St. James' pleasant and inoffensive presentation throughout the 12 songs could easily find their way onto the soundtrack or background music found on any prime time teen soap opera on the UPN or WB networks. And the music is so contemporary and the lyrics sometimes so ambiguous, it's easy to forget where her message is coming from and what it's all about. ~ Rob Theakston, All Music Guide

Name Credits Aaron Swihart Engineer Ainslie Grosser Programming, Engineer Alice Tweed Smith Production Coordination Anthony LaMarchina Cello Baeho Bobby Shin Engineer BarlowGirl Performer Ben Phillips Drums, Engineer Bethany Newman Design Bill Whittington Engineer Brent Milligan Cello, Guitar, Executive Producer, Bass Carl Marsh Programming Carrie Bailey Strings Chris Lord-Alge Mixing Darren King Drums David Angell Strings David Davidson Violin, Strings Debbie Dover Hair Stylist, Make-Up F. Reid Shippen Mixing Greg Calbi Mastering Holly Meyers A&R James Gregory Bass Jan Cook Creative Director Jennifer Kemp Wardrobe Jeremy Bose Programming, String Arrangements Jeremy Cowart Photography Joe Baldridge Mixing John Catchings Cello Keith Armstrong Assistant Lee Bridges Assistant Mary Kathryn Vanosdale Strings Matt Bronleewe Audio Production, Producer, Source Material, Guitar Nathan Watkins Editing Paul Moak Guitar Robert Hawkins Programming, Guitar Rusty Varenkamp Editing, Engineer Shaun Shakel Programming, Engineer, Audio Production, Arranger, Producer, String Arrangements Stephen Leiweke Guitar Tedd T. Engineer, Audio Production, Guitar, Producer, Editing, Bass, Programming Tim Frank Art Direction Tony Morra Drums Zach Fisher Drums