Next Big Thing

This article is about the Vince Gill album. For the title song, see Next Big Thing (song). For other uses, see The Next Big Thing (disambiguation).

Next Big Thing is the tenth studio album from American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 2003 on MCA Nashville, and it features four singles: the title track, "Someday", "Young Man's Town", and "In These Last Few Days". These respectively reached #17, #31, #44 and #51 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in 2003.

Next Big Thing
Studio album by Vince Gill
Released	February 11, 2003 (2003-02-11)
Recorded	2002
Studio	Ocean Way Nashville, Seventeen Grand Recording and East Iris Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) Sound Kitchen (Franklin, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	1:04:13
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Vince Gill
Vince Gill chronology
Tis the Season (2000) Next Big Thing (2003) These Days (2006)
Singles from Next Big Thing
"Next Big Thing" Released: November 2002 "Someday" Released: March 29, 2003

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Billboard	(favorable) [3]
Country Weekly	(favorable) [4]
Entertainment Weekly	A− [5]
Q	[1]
USA Today	[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Next Big Thing"	Vince Gill, Al Anderson, John Hobbs	3:23
2.	"She Never Makes Me Cry"	Gill	3:53
3.	"Don't Let Her Get Away"	Gill, Anderson	3:04
4.	"Someday"	Gill, Richard Marx	3:36
5.	"These Broken Hearts"	Gill, Pete Wasner	4:51
6.	"We Had It All"	Gill	3:58
7.	"Young Man's Town"	Gill	4:30
8.	"Real Mean Bottle"	Gill	3:15
9.	"Whippoorwill River"	Gill, Dean Dillon	5:45
10.	"The Sun's Gonna Shine on You"	Gill, Reed Nielsen	3:17
11.	"From Where I Stand"	Gill, Anderson, Hobbs	3:38
12.	"You Ain't Foolin' Nobody"	Gill, Nielsen	3:49
13.	"Old Time Fiddle"	Gill, Leslie Satcher	2:48
14.	"Without You"	Gill	3:08
15.	"Two Hearts"	Gill, Satcher	3:59
16.	"This Old Guitar and Me"	Gill	3:47
17.	"In These Last Few Days"	Gill	3:32

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

• Vince Gill – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
• John Hobbs – keyboards, string arrangements (4, 5)
• Pete Wasner – keyboards
• Jim Hoke – accordion, autoharp, harmonica
• Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
• Dean Parks – electric guitar
• Al Anderson – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 11), electric guitar (1, 3, 11)
• Tom Britt – slide guitar (1)
• John Hughey – steel guitar
• Willie Weeks – bass guitar
• Chad Cromwell – drums
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• Kirk Whalum – alto saxophone (1)
• Jim Horn – baritone saxophone (1), horn arrangements (1)
• Steve Herrman – trombone (1)
• Charles Rose – trumpet (1)
• The Nashville String Machine – strings (4, 5)

Harmony vocalists

• Bekka Bramlett (1, 11)
• Billy Thomas (1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 12)
• Harry Stinson (2, 12)
• Jeff White (3)
• Andrea Zonn (3)
• Michael McDonald (5)
• Kim Keyes (6, 10)
• Emmylou Harris (7)
• Dawn Sears (8, 14)
• Jenny Gill (9)
• Leslie Satcher (13)
• Lee Ann Womack (15)
• Amy Grant (17)

Production

• Vince Gill – producer, art direction
• Justin Niebank – recording, mixing
• David Bryant – recording assistant
• Sang Park – mix assistant
• Steve Bishir – overdub recording
• Steve Marcantonio – overdub recording
• J.C. Monterrosa – overdub recording assistant
• Hank Nirider – overdub recording assistant
• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
• Traci Sterling Bishir – production manager
• Michelle Bentrem – production managing assistant
• Jim Kemp – art direction
• Karen Naff – design
• Andrew Eccles – photography
• Trish Townsend – wardrobe stylist
• Mary Beth Felts – hair, make-up
• The Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2003) Peak position US Billboard 200[7] 14 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[8] 4

Year-end charts Chart (2003) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[9] 39