Me was Ray Stevens' twentieth studio album and his third and final for Mercury Records, released in 1983. In 1982, Stevens returned briefly to Mercury to record this album (his first for that label in 20 years) before moving to MCA Records in 1984. The front of the album cover shows Stevens portraying a painter painting a self-portrait; while the back shows the finished portrait on a table along with a second self-portrait that is sketched by pencil, a cup filled with paint brushes, the paint tray, tubes of paint, a small glass filled with water and a rose, and a lamp. Two singles were lifted from the album: "Love Will Beat Your Brains Out" (which did not chart) and "My Dad."
Track listing
Personnel
Produced by Jerry Kennedy and Ray Stevens
Arranged by Ray Stevens
Engineer – Stuart Keathley
Recorded and Mixed at Ray Stevens Studio (Nashville, Tennessee). Mastered by Randy Kling at Disc Mastering, Inc. (Nashville, Tennessee). Photography – Slick Lawson Paintings and Sketches – Susan Scott
Musicians
Ray Stevens – vocals, other synthesizers
Rodger Morris – acoustic piano, Rhodes piano, Gleemon synthesizer
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitars
John Clausi – electric guitars
Steve Gibson – electric guitars
Weldon Myrick – dobro, steel guitar
Jack Williams – bass
Jerry Carrigan – drums (1, 3-10) James Stroud – drums (2) Terry McMillan – percussion, harmonica, Jew's harp Nashville String Machine – strings Suzi Ragsdale – backing vocals (1), female vocal (7) The Cherry Sisters (Sheri Huffman, Lisa Silver and Diane Tidwell) – backing vocals Alan Moore – backing vocals Hurshel Wiginton – backing vocals