Track Listing
1. Where Are You Now
2. One Love
3. Sad Eyes
4. Some Days
5. I Did
6. Try Me Again
7. Too Bad You're No Good
8. Real Live Woman
9. I'm Still Alive
10. Wild For You Baby
11. Come Back When It Ain't Rainin'
12. When a Love Song Sings the Blues
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Kim Richey, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sam Bush | | Producer: | Garth Fundis, Trisha Yearwood | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Trisha Yearwood (vocals); Dan Dugmore (acoustic, electric, slide & lap steel guitars, dobro); Al Anderson (acoustic & electric guitars); Darrell Scott (acoustic guitar, bouzouki); Richard Bennett, Johnny Garcia (acoustic guitar); Mike Henderson (acoustic slide guitar); Kenny Vaughan (6- & 12-string electric guitars); Sam Bush (mandolin); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Steve Nathan (piano, harpsichord, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards); Steve Cox (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Keith Horne (bass); Greg Morrow (drums, maracas, tambourine); Tom Roady (percussion); Stephanie Bentley, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey, Matraca Berg, Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, Bob Bailey, Vicki Hampton, Kim Fleming (background vocals).
Recorded at Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee.
REAL LIVE WOMAN was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Country Album and "Real Live Woman" was nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
The last cut on Trisha Yearwood's ninth CD, REAL LIVE WOMAN, is called "When A Love Song Sings the Blues," and that's no coincidence. Drawing on stellar material from Matraca Berg, Linda Ronstadt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey and even Bruce Springsteen, REAL LIVE WOMAN focuses on the downside of love, and Yearwood sings about it with the gut-wrenching emotion of someone who's definitely been there.
Though she brings in famous pals like Emmylou Harris and Jackson Browne to provide backing vocals, her own voice is the highlight here. From the Bonnie Raitt shadings of bluesy numbers like "Some Days" and "Wild For You Baby," to the falsetto of "Sad Eyes," to the pleading tones of "Try Me Again," Yearwood simply sings rings around her country/pop compatriots. Other highlights include the gospel-y "One Love," the funny, rollicking "Too Bad You're No Good" and the chiming "Where Are You Now." But the title track is the real find: it's the down-home affirmation of an average woman who's at complete peace with herself. "I offer no apologies/for the things that I believe and say," sings Yearwood. "And I like it that way." Like its title, REAL LIVE WOMAN is wise, sexy, earthy, strong and beautiful--and one of Yearwood's best.
Editorial Reviews
...a satisfying mix of Ronstadt's California confessionals, Raitt's country blues, Springsteen's melancholia, and the romantic yearnings of some of Nashville's hippest female writers... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (03/31/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...A class affair...'When A Love Songs Sings The Blues' is an especially lavish curtain closer.
Q (06/01/2000)
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