4 Runner
Studio album by 4 Runner
Released	May 9, 1995
Genre	Country
Label	Polydor Nashville
Producer	Buddy Cannon, Larry Shell
4 Runner chronology
4 Runner (1995) Getaway Car (2003)
Singles from 4 Runner
"Cain's Blood" Released: February 1995 "A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive" Released: June 1995 "Home Alone" Released: October 1995 "Ripples" Released: March 1996

4 Runner is the debut studio album by American country music group 4 Runner, released on May 9, 1995 on the Nashville division of Polydor Records. It produced the singles "Cain's Blood", "A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive", "Home Alone", and "Ripples", all of which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs charts. Of these four singles, "Cain's Blood" was the only one to chart within the Top 40, peaking at #26.^[1]

Brian Wahlert of Country Standard Time criticized some of the songs on 4 Runner for "cop[ying] the worst pop elements" of The Oak Ridge Boys, but said that the presence of bass singer Jim Chapman gave the material a "fresh sound." His review praised "Cain's Blood" and "A Heart with 4 Wheel Drive" as the strongest tracks.^[2] Entertainment Weekly critic Alanna Nash gave the album a B-minus rating. In her review, she said that "they can be as hokey as the Oaks, but unlike the Statlers, they're sentimental without being mawkish."^[3]

4 Runner

• Jim Chapman – bass vocals
• Billy Crittenden – baritone vocals
• Lee Hilliard – tenor vocals
• Craig Morris – lead vocals

Additional musicians

• Glen Duncan – fiddle
• Larry Franklin – fiddle
• Sonny Garrish – Dobro, steel guitar
• Tony Haselden – acoustic guitar
• John Hobbs – piano
• Mike Lawler – synthesizer
• Paul Leim – drums
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Steve Nathan – organ, piano, synthesizer
• Danny Parks – acoustic guitar
• Larry Paxton – bass guitar
• Don Potter – acoustic guitar
• Matt Rollings – piano
• Reggie Young – electric guitar

All strings performed by the Nashville String Machine under the conduction of Carl Gorodetzky.