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{{Infobox album
| name       = Backbone
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Boney James]]
| cover      = Backbone (Boney James album).jpg
| alt        =
| released   = {{Start date|1994}}
| recorded   =
| studio     = Alpha Studios ([[Burbank, CA]])
| genre      = [[Smooth jazz]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=42|s=25}}
| label      = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| producer   = Paul Brown; tracks 2 and 3 co-produced by Jeff Carruthers
| prev_title = [[Trust (Boney James album)|Trust]]
| prev_year  = 1992
| next_title = [[Seduction (Boney James album)|Seduction]]
| next_year  = 1995
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = Backbone
| type        = studio
| single1     = Happy Home
| single1date = 1994
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r203141|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref>
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'''''Backbone''''' is the second album by [[jazz]] saxophonist [[Boney James]], released in [[1994 in music|1994]]. ''Backbone'' the album is James's first release with Warner Bros. Records.
{{Track listing
| headline        =
| extra_column    =
| total_length    = 42:25
| all_writing     =
| all_lyrics      =
| all_music       =
| writing_credits =
| lyrics_credits  =
| music_credits   =
| title1          = Backbone
| writer1         = James Oppenheim, Paul Brown, L. Carl Burnett
| length1         = 4:25
| title2          = Bleecker Street
| writer2         = Oppenheim, Brown, Jeff Carruthers, Sheppard Solomon
| length2         = 4:21
| title3          = Just Between Us
| writer3         = Oppenheim, Brown, Carruthers, Vincent Berry
| length3         = 4:47
| title4          = Trinidad
| writer4         = Oppenheim, Brown, Roberto Vally
| length4         = 4:43
| title5          = Blue
| writer5         = Kiki Ebsen
| length5         = 2:39
| title6          = Love You All My Lifetime
| writer6         = [[Klarmann/Weber]]
| length6         = 5:00
| title7          = Happy Home
| writer7         = Valerie Davis, Steve Harvey, [[Karyn White]]
| length7         = 5:58
| title8          = One Autumn Night
| writer8         = Oppenheim, Darrell Smith
| length8         = 5:00
| title9          = The Night I Fell in Love
| writer9         = [[Luther Vandross]], [[Marcus Miller]]
| length9         = 5:32
}}
== Personnel ==
'''Musicians'''
* Boney James – all other instruments except where noted, tenor saxophone (1–6, 8, 9), soprano saxophone (2, 3, 7), [[Yamaha WX7]] (2, 9), keyboards (4, 7), [[clavinet]] (6)
* David Torkanowsky – acoustic piano (1, 3), keyboards (4, 7)
* Jeff Carruthers – keyboards (2, 6)
* Kiki Ebsen – keyboards (5)
* Darrell Smith – keyboards (8)
* [[Paul Jackson Jr.]] – guitars (1, 2, 3, 8)
* [[Allen Hinds]] – guitars (6)
* [[Doc Powell]] – guitars (7, 9)
* [[Peter White (musician)|Peter White]] – acoustic guitar (8)
* [[Freddie Washington (bassist)|Freddie Washington]] – bass (2, 8)
* Roberto Vally – bass (4)
* Dwayne "Smitty" Smith – bass (7)
* [[Lenny Castro]] – percussion (1–4, 8, 9)
* Sam RIney – [[alto flute]] (4)
* Bridgette Bryant – vocals (7)
* Alex Brown – vocals (8)
* Gene Van Buren – vocals (8)
'''Arrangements'''
* Boney James (1, 3, 4, 7, 8)
* Paul Brown (1, 3, 4, 7, 8)
* Carl Burnett (1)
* Jeff Carruthers (2, 3, 6, 9)
* Darrell Smith (8)
== Production ==
* Paul Brown – producer, recording, mixing
* Jeff Carruthers – co-producer (2, 3)
* [[Stephen Marcussen]] – mastering at Precision Mastering (Hollywood, California)
* Christine Caro – art direction, design
* Andrea Marouk – photography
* Tracy Lamonica – portrait artwork
* Howard Lowell – management
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Boney James}}
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[[Category:1993 albums]]
[[Category:Boney James albums]]
[[Category:Warner Records albums]]
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