Now & Then (Janie Fricke album)

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Now & Then
Janie Fricke--Now & Then.jpg
Studio album (re-recording) by
Janie Fricke
ReleasedApril 15, 1993 (1993-04-15)
StudioChelsea Studio
Genre
LabelBranson
Producer
  • Janie Fricke
  • Ed Keeley
Janie Fricke chronology
Crossroads: Hymns of Faith
(1992) 		Now & Then
(1993) 		Bouncin' Back
(2000)

Now & Then is a studio album by American country artist Janie Fricke. It was released on April 15, 1993, via Branson Entertainment and featured 13 tracks. The album contained re-recordings of Fricke's most popular and commercially successful singles during the 1980s. It was her eighteenth studio release in her career.

Background and recording[]

Janie Fricke had a string of number one and top ten North American country hits during the 1980s on Columbia Records. She was dropped from the label at the end of the decade and she instead signed with the smaller Intersound Records in 1991.[2] Following her first release for the label,[3] Fricke moved to Intersound's subsidiary company called Branson Entertainment.[4] Her first Branson project was a 1992 gospel collection and her third would be 1993's Now & Then. For the project, Fricke chose to re-record her most familiar singles from her career.[2] It was recorded at the Chelsea Studio located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the second album to credit Fricke as a producer as well as an artist. Ed Keeley was also credited as an executive producer.[5]

Content and release[]

Now & Then consisted of 13 tracks.[1] Fricke re-recorded five tracks for the album that were originally number one Billboard country songs: "It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy", "He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)", "Always Have, Always Will", "Your Heart's Not in It" and "You Don't Know Love". Fricke also re-recorded several of her Billboard top ten songs like "Do Me with Love", "She's Single Again" and "Somebody Else's Fire".[5][6] Now & Then was originally released on April 15, 1993, on Branson Entertainment. It was Fricke's eighteenth studio project. In its original form, the disc was distributed as a compact disc and a cassette.[5] Years later, the project was re-released to digital platforms including Apple Music.[7]

Track listings[]

Compact disc and digital versions[]

Now & Then[5][7]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."She's Single Again"
2:25
2."It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy"
3:44
3."He's a Heartache"
2:50
4."Always Have, Always Will"Johnny Mears3:30
5."Your Heart's Not in It"
3:00
6."I'll Need Someone to Hold Me"
2:56
7."Do Me with Love"John Schweers2:20
8."You Don't Know Love"
3:18
9."Let's Try Again"David Steagall3:18
10."The First Word in Memory Is Me"
3:23
11."Somebody Else's Fire"
  • Bunch
  • Kennedy
  • Rose
3:04
12."If the Fall Don't Get You"
2:34
13."Where's the Fire"
  • Lorber
  • Susan Longacre
2:32

Cassette version[]

Side one[5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."She's Single Again"
  • Craig
  • McCann
2:23
2."It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy"
  • Gray
  • Harrington-Burkhart
  • Taylor
3:45
3."He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)"
  • Henley
  • Silbar
2:48
4."Always Have, Always Will"Mears3:29
5."Your Heart's Not in It"
  • Garvin
  • Jones
  • Shapiro
2:57
6."I'll Need Someone to Hold Me"
  • Holyfield
  • McDill
2:55
7."Do Me with Love"Schweers2:17
Side two[5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Don't Know Love"
  • Foster
  • King
3:18
2."Let's Try Again"David Steagall3:16
3."The First Word in Memory Is Me"
  • Bunch
  • Kennedy
  • Rose
3:21
4."Somebody Else's Fire"
  • Bunch
  • Kennedy
  • Rose
3:03
5."If the Fall Don't Get You"
  • Lorber
  • Robbins
  • Stephenson
2:32
6."Where's the Fire"
  • Lorber
  • Longacre
2:32

Personnel[]

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Now & Then[5] and AllMusic.[8]

Release history[]

Region Date Format Label Ref.
North America August 15, 1993
  • Compact disc
  • cassette
 Branson Entertainment [5]
2016
  • Music download
  • streaming
 IndieBlu Music [9][7]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Now & Then: Janie Fricke: Songs, reviews, credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Janie Fricke: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  3. ^ Erlewine, Michael (1997). All Music Guide to Country. Miller Freeman Publications. p. 163. ISBN 9780879304751.
  4. ^ "This Concert Season, 18 Million People with Visit Branson, Missouri". Billboard. March 26, 1994. p. 45. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Fricke, Janie (April 15, 1993). "Now & Then (CD/Cassette Liner Notes & Album Information)". Branson Entertainment. 9304.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  7. ^ a b c "Now & Then by Janie Fricke". Apple Music. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Now & Then: Janie Fricke: Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Press Release: Sony Legacy Releases Four Janie Fricke Albums Digitally For The First Time Ever". The Country Note. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
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