Do You Know by Jessica Simpson

Personnel: John Shanks (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass instrument); Ilya Toshinsky, Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar); Troy Lancaster, Tom Bukovac (electric guitar); Mike Johnson (pedal steel guitar); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, fiddle); Charles Judge (piano, organ, keyboards, string synthesizer); Craig Young , Jimmie Lee Sloas (bass instrument); Jeff Rothschild, Shannon Forrest (drums); Hillary Lindsey, Brett James (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Luke Wooten. With 2008's DO YOU KNOW, singer/actress Jessica Simpson wanders from her comfortable pop confines into country territory for a set of twangy crossover tunes. Born and raised in Texas, Simpson certainly has more built-in country cred than many performers, and she uses it to offer up an appealing album proudly in the Shania Twain/Faith Hill vein. Although many of these songs feature pedal-steel guitar, fiddle, and other telltale country instrumentation (see the lively opener, "Come On Over"), Simpson never pretends that these tracks are...