Real Live Woman
Real Live Woman is the eighth studio album by American country music singer Trisha Yearwood, released on March 28, 2000.
The album reached #4 on the Billboard country albums chart. It produced a #16 hit on the Billboard country music charts in "Real Live Woman" and a #45 hit in "Where Are You Now". The latter was only the second single of Yearwood's career to miss Top 40 in the U.S.
The album covers a song by Bruce Springsteen called "Sad Eyes", a song by Linda Ronstadt titled, "Try Me Again", and a song by Bonnie Raitt called "Wild For You Baby". Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Jackson Browne provide harmony vocals for some of the album's tracks. It was given 3 out of 5 stars by Allmusic.
Track listing
Australian bonus tracks
- "You're Where I Belong" - 4:15
- "Something [So Right |Something So Right]" - 4:11
Personnel
- Trisha Yearwood – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Steve Cox – Hammond B3 organ, acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
- Steve Nathan – keyboards, acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ, harpsichord
- Bobby Wood – acoustic piano
- Kenny Vaughan – electric guitars, electric 12-string guitar
- Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar
- Johnny Garcia – acoustic guitar
- Darrell Scott – bouzouki, acoustic guitar
- Al Anderson – acoustic guitar
- Dan Dugmore – lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar solo, steel guitar, dobro, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar
- Mike Henderson – slide guitar
- Sam Bush – mandolin
- Keith Horne – bass
- Glenn Worf – bass
- Greg Morrow – drums, maracas, tambourine
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- Tom Roady – percussion, triangle, tambourine
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle
- David Campbell – string arrangements and conductor
- Mary Chapin Carpenter – backing vocals
- Kim Richey – backing vocals
- Bob Bailey – backing vocals
- Kim Fleming – backing vocals
- Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
- Jackson Browne – backing vocals
- Stephanie Bentley – backing vocals
- Emmylou Harris – backing vocals
- Matraca Berg – backing vocals
- Gordon Kennedy – backing vocals
- Wayne Kirkpatrick – backing vocals
Production
- Garth Fundis – producer
- Trisha Yearwood – producer
- Jeff Balding – recording
- Chuck Ainlay – mixing
- Matt Andrews – recording assistant, additional recording
- Dave Sinko – additional recording
- Mark Ralston – mix assistant
- Denny Purcell – mastering
- Scott Paschall – production assistant
- Virginia Team – art direction
- Chris Ferrara – design
- Sonya Watson – design
- Andrew Southam – photography
- Sheri McCoy – stylist
- Maria Smoot – hair stylist
- Nancy Russell – management
- Recorded at Sound Emporium.
- Mixed at Sound Stage Studios.
- Edited and Mastered at Georgetown Masters.
Chart performance