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.

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.

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.


 * 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