{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Simply Nothing | type = Album | artist = Shawn McDonald | cover = Shawn mcdonald - Simply Nothing (album cover art).jpg | alt = | released = August 10, 2004 | recorded = | venue = | studio = FabMusic (Springfield, Oregon) | genre = CCM | length = 49:39 | label = Sparrow Records | producer = Christopher Stevens | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Live in Seattle | next_year = 2005 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''[http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/reviews/2004/simplynothing.html Christianity Today]'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} | rev2=[http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/SimplyNothing.asp Jesus Freak Hideout] | rev2Score={{Rating|4|5}} | rev3=''{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061102080207/http://www.renownmagazine.com/main/modules.php?module=reviews&id=246 Renown]}}'' | rev3Score= {{Rating|4|5}}}}
'''''Simply Nothing''''' is the debut album by singer-songwriter Shawn McDonald on Sparrow Records released August 10, 2004.
==Track listing== {{track listing | headline = Album release | all_writing = Shawn McDonald, except where noted | title1 = Take My Hand | length1 = 3:45 | writer1 = Shawn McDonald, Paul Wright | title2 = Gravity | length2 = 4:10 | writer2 = McDonald, Christopher Stevens | title3 = Hold On | length3 = 3:58 | writer3 = McDonald, Stevens | title4 = Simply Nothing | length4 = 4:02 | title5 = Beautiful | length5 = 4:59 | title6 = Don't Walk Away | length6 = 3:17 | title7 = All I Need | length7 = 3:38 | title8 = Take This Life | length8 = 3:55 | writer8 = McDonald, Stevens | title9 = Have You Ever? | length9 = 4:58 | title10 = Here I Am | length10 = 4:38 | title11 = Yahweh | length11 = 4:02 | title12 = Open Me | length12 = 4:17 | total_length = 52:35 }}
== Personnel == * Shawn McDonald – vocals, backing vocals (1–4, 7) acoustic guitar (1–7, 9–12) * Christopher Stevens – programming, Rhodes electric piano (2), additional guitars (2, 4), bass (3, 4, 7, 8, 11), drums (4), electric guitars (7) * Nathan Christenson – electric guitars (2) * Joe Weber – electric guitars (2) * Roy Brewer – nylon guitar (3), viola (3, 5), Spanish guitar (8) * Mark Schneider – acoustic bass (1, 2, 6, 12), electric bass (6) * Tim Donahue – drums (6, 7, 11, 12) * Dale Bradley – cello (1, 2, 5, 10, 12) * Cara Flory – backing vocals (4, 5, 7, 10) * Jessica Rossi – backing vocals (8, 12)
== Production == * Christopher York – executive producer * Christopher Stevens – producer, engineer, mixing * Jim DeMain – mastering at Yes Master (Nashville, Tennessee) * Jan Cook – creative director * Jeremy Cowart / [http://pixelgrazer.com Pixelgrazer.com] – design, photography * Joshua S. Newman – photography art direction * Tim Frank – design art direction * Glynne Davies – grooming * Dryve Artist Management, LLC – management {{Shawn McDonald}}
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Category:Shawn McDonald albums Category:2004 debut albums Category:Sparrow Records albums