Lila is the debut album by American country music singer Lila McCann. Released in 1997 on Asylum Records, the album produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart: "Down Came a Blackbird" (#28), "I Wanna Fall in Love" (#3, McCann's highest-charting single), a cover of Sheena Easton's "Almost Over You" (#42) and finally, "Yippy Ky Yay" (#63). The album itself has been certified platinum by the RIAA for U.S. shipments of one million copies, and it was the highest-selling debut album by a country artist in 1997.
Personnel
Adapted from liner notes.
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Dennis Burnside – piano
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Kim Carnes – background vocals (track 2)
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin, dobro
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar and electric dobro (track 2)
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
John Hobbs – piano, keyboards, additional piano and keyboard overdubs (tracks 1, 4, 5, 8)
Dann Huff – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Jana King-Evans – background vocals (track 1)
Liana Manis – background vocals (track 9)
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Lila McCann – lead vocals, background vocals
Terry McMillan – harmonica (track 5)
Mark Spiro – background vocals
Lonnie Wilson – drums