Bering Strait (album)

Bering Strait is the self-titled debut studio album by Russian country music band Bering Strait. It was released on January 14, 2003, via Universal South Records, now known as Show Dog-Universal Music.

Bering Strait
Studio album by Bering Strait
Released	January 14, 2003
Genre	Country
Length	47:08 (US edition)
Label	Universal South
Producer	Brent Maher Tony Brown Stan Cornelius
Bering Strait chronology
Bering Strait (2003) Pages (2005)

Music videos were produced for "When Going Home", "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" and the 2002 Grammy Award nominee "Bearing Straight". Ultimately, "Bearing Straight" was aired on national television as a country music video, whereas "Jagged Edge" was aired on the Great American Country video music cable channel and distributed as a digital file on the CD album itself. "When Going Home" was never publicly distributed.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link

Track listing

1. "What Is It About You" (Brian Dean Maher, Billy Montana, Helen Darling) – 3:53
2. "Tell Me Tonight" (Ilya Toshinsky, Kevin Welch, Brent Maher) – 3:53
3. "I Could Be Persuaded" (Tony Marty, Brenton Roberts) – 2:50
4. "When Going Home" (George Teren, Stephanie Lewis) – 4:08
5. "I'm Not Missing You" (Maher, Jenai) – 4:26
6. "I Could Use a Hero" (Jenai, Montana) – 4:22
7. "The Trouble with Love" (Candy Parton, Mary Ann Kennedy, Pam Rose) – 3:44
8. "Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart" (Walker Ingleheart, Mike Joyce) – 3:58
9. "Only This Love" (Toshinsky, Mike Reid, Maher) – 3:33
10. "Bearing Straight" (instrumental) (Toshinsky, Lydia Salnikova, Sasha Ostrovsky, Sergei Passov) – 5:52
11. "Porushka-Paranya" (traditional) – 2:41
12. "Like a Child" (Live) (Bob DiPiero, Carolyn Dawn Johnson) – 3:46

Personnel

From Bering Strait liner notes.^[1]

Bering Strait

• Alexander Arzamastsev - drums, percussion
• Natasha Borzilova - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
• Sergey "Spooky" Olkhovsky - bass guitar
• Sergei Passov - mandolin, fiddle
• Lydia Salnikova - keyboards, background vocals, second lead vocals on "I Could Use a Hero" and "Porushka-Paranya"
• Sasha Ostrovsky - steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Dobro
• Ilya Toshinsky - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, background vocals

Additional musicians

• Eddie Bayers - drum programming, percussion
• Spencer Campbell - bass overdubs
• Vince Gill - background vocals on "When Going Home"

Technical

• Tony Brown - producer ("When Going Home" only)
• Stan Cornelius - producer ("I Could Be Persuaded" and "Porushka-Paranya"), executive producer
• Ken Love - mastering
• Brent Maher - producer (all tracks), recording, mixing

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[2]	98
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[3]	17