Do You Know

Performer: Jessica Simpson (Pop)
Artist: Dolly Parton
Engineer: Aaron Kasdorf; Craig Headen; Seth Morton; Alex Gibson; Vance Powell; John Caldwell; Jeff Rothschild
Producer: John Shanks; Brett James
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Jessica Simpson (vocals); John Shanks (guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar); Ilya Toshinsky, Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar); Troy Lancaster, Tom Bukovac (electric guitar); Mike Johnson (pedal steel guitar); Johnathan Yudkin (mandolin, fiddle); Charles Judge (piano, organ, keyboards); Craig Young, Jimmy Lee Sloas (bass guitar); Jeff Rothschild, Shannon Forrest (drums); Hillary Lindsey, Brett James (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Luke Wooten. With 2008's DO YOU KNOW, singer/actress Jessica Simpson wanders from her comfortable pop confines into country territory for a set of twangy crossover tunes. Born and raised in Texas, Simpson certainly has more built-in country cred than many performers, and she uses it to offer up an appealing album proudly in the Shania Twain/Faith Hill vein. Although many of these songs feature pedal-steel guitar, fiddle, and other telltale country instrumentation (see the lively opener, "Come On Over"), Simpson never pretends that these tracks are anything but Nashville-honed pop numbers. Simpson also uses DO YOU KNOW as way to return to her Christian-music roots, as most readily embodied by the celebratory "Pray Out Loud." The record's crowning moment, however, is easily the title track, both written by and featuring the legendary Dolly Parton, who helps to cap off DO YOU KNOW with an extra dose of energy and passion. While some country traditionalists may scoff at Simpson's Music City makeover, the album is remarkably assured, and stands as one of the pop star's finest outings.

Rolling Stone (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[D]igging into her country roots for DO YOU KNOW is the most strong-footed move that Jessica Simpson...has ever made....Simpson's tender voice exudes the realism of a gal who's taken a few knocks in her day."

Dallas-born Jessica Simpson started out as a heavily gospel-influenced teenage singer of contemporary Christian music, but before long her sheer starpower dictated a crossover to the secular world. In the late 1990s, Simpson became an enormously successful performer in the mainstream pop/dance realm. A couple of years later, an MTV reality series in which Simpson starred with her then pop-singer husband Nick Lachey (of 98 Degrees fame) made the photogenic young pop idol who said the darnedest things an even bigger household name.

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