Real Live Woman

Real Live Woman
Studio album by Trisha Yearwood
Released	March 28, 2000
Genre	Country
Length	47:58
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Garth Fundis, Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood chronology
Where Your Road Leads (1998) Real Live Woman (2000) Inside Out (2001)
Singles from Real Live Woman
"Real Live Woman" Released: January 2000 "Where Are You Now" Released: May 2000

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	(favorable)[1]
Allmusic	[2]
Chicago Tribune	(favorable)[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[4]
People	(favorable)[5]
PopMatters	(favorable)[6]
Q	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]

Real Live Woman is the eighth studio album by country singer Trisha Yearwood.

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.^[2]

Track listing[]

1. "Where Are You Now" (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Richey) - 3:10
2. "One Love" (Al Anderson, Gary Nicholson, Kimmie Rhodes) - 4:25
3. "Sad Eyes" (Bruce Springsteen) - 4:10
4. "Some Days" (Mark Selby, Tia Sillers) - 3:51
5. "I Did" (Spady Brannan, John Nance Sharp) - 3:53
6. "Try Me Again" (Andrew Gold, Linda Ronstadt) - 4:28
7. "Too Bad You're No Good" (Paul Craft, Cadillac Holmes) — 3:50
8. "Real Live Woman" (Bobbie Cryner) - 3:55
9. "I'm Still Alive" (Anderson, Matraca Berg) - 4:03
10. "Wild for You Baby" (David Batteau, Tom Snow) - 4:32
11. "Come Back When It Ain't Rainin'" (Berg, Harlan Howard) - 3:14
12. "When a Love Song Sings the Blues" (Berg, Ronnie Samoset) - 4:27

Australian bonus tracks[]

13. "You're Where I Belong" (Diane Warren) - 4:15 (also available on the Japan pressing)
14. "Something So Right" (Paul Simon) - 4:11

Personnel[]

• Trisha Yearwood – lead vocals, backing vocals (3, 9)
• Steve Cox – Hammond B3 organ (1-4, 8, 11), acoustic piano (8, 12), Wurlitzer electric piano (10)
• Steve Nathan – keyboards (4, 5), acoustic piano (6), Hammond B3 organ (6), harpsichord (11)
• Bobby Wood – acoustic piano (7)
• Kenny Vaughan – electric guitars (1-6, 8, 10), electric 12-string guitar (11)
• Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (2, 10, 11, 12)
• Johnny Garcia – acoustic guitar (2, 3, 10, 11)
• Darrell Scott – bouzouki (1), acoustic guitar (3-6, 8)
• Al Anderson – acoustic guitar (9)
• Dan Dugmore – lap steel guitar (1, 2, 9, 10), acoustic guitar solo (2), steel guitar (3, 5, 6, 8), dobro (4), electric guitar (7, 11, 12), acoustic guitar (9), slide guitar (11)
• Mike Henderson – slide guitar (7)
• Sam Bush – mandolin (7)
• Keith Horne – bass (1-6, 8-12)
• Glenn Worf – bass (7)
• Greg Morrow – drums (1-6, 8, 10, 11, 12), maracas (1), tambourine (3, 4)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (7)
• Tom Roady – percussion (2, 7, 9, 10), triangle (5), tambourine (11)
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle (7, 8)
• David Campbell – string arrangements and conductor (7, 10, 12)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter – backing vocals (1)
• Kim Richey – backing vocals (1)
• Bob Bailey – backing vocals (2, 6, 8)
• Kim Fleming – backing vocals (2, 6, 8)
• Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (2, 6, 8)
• Jackson Browne – backing vocals (3)
• Stephanie Bentley – backing vocals (5)
• Emmylou Harris – backing vocals (7)
• Matraca Berg – backing vocals (9, 11)
• Gordon Kennedy – backing vocals (12)
• Wayne Kirkpatrick – backing vocals (12)

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

Studios

• Recorded at Sound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Mixed at Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Edited and Mastered at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee).

Chart performance[]

Album[]

Singles[]

References[]