Jeff Bates (album)

Jeff Bates is the self-titled third album from American country music artist Jeff Bates. Released in April 2008 on the independent label Black River Entertainment, it has accounted for three non-charting singles: "Don't Hate Me for Lovin' You", "Riverbank" and "One Thing". Bates co-wrote ten of the thirteen songs on the album. Despite not producing a charting single, it peaked at #32 on Top Country Albums.

Track listing

 * 1) "I Can't Have Nothing Nice" (Jeff Bates, Ben Hayslip, Brandon Kinney) – 3:34
 * 2) "Lonesome" (Kenny Beard, Casey Beathard, Frank Rogers) – 4:15
 * 3) "One Thing" (Bates, Jason Matthews, Jim McCormick) – 3:21
 * 4) "A Country Girl Can" (Bates, Hayslip, Matthews) – 3:06
 * 5) "Riverbank" (Bates, Robert Arthur, Kirk Roth) – 3:43
 * 6) "Chevy Don't Let Me Down" (Bates, Hayslip, Jimmy Yeary) – 3:07
 * 7) "Don't Hate Me for Lovin' You" (Bates, Yeary, Kemi Williams, Lonnie Wilson) – 3:25
 * 8) "My Wave" (Hayslip, Yeary) – 4:04
 * 9) "Some Days" (Bates, Beard, Hayslip) – 2:52
 * 10) "He Wasn't Like Us" (Bates, Hayslip, Kinney) – 3:51
 * 11) "Dead or Alive" (Bates, Arthur, Roth) – 3:14
 * 12) "Country Man" (Bates, Beard, Yeary) – 3:27
 * 13) "Somebody's Falling" (Beard, Deborah Allen, Paul Overstreet) – 3:21

Personnel

 * Jeff Bates- lead vocals
 * Eddie Bayers- drums
 * Kenny Beard- background vocals
 * Mike Brignardello- bass guitar
 * Mickey Jack Cones- background vocals
 * Aly Cutter- background vocals
 * Glen Duncan- fiddle, mandolin
 * Larry Franklin- fiddle
 * Paul Franklin- steel guitar
 * Tommy Harden- percussion
 * Buddy Hyatt- piano
 * Mike Johnson- steel guitar
 * Wayne Killius- drums
 * Jeff King- acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 * Troy Lancaster- electric guitar
 * Gordon Mote- keyboards, piano
 * Jimmy Nichols- keyboards, Hammond organ, piano, strings, synthesizer, background vocals
 * Danny Parks- acoustic guitar
 * Scotty Sanders- steel guitar
 * Joe Spivey- fiddle
 * Bobby Terry- acoustic guitar
 * Biff Watson- acoustic guitar
 * Lonnie Wilson- drums