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)

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

Musical

• Bob Bailey — background vocals
• Eddie Bayers — drums
• Richard Bennett — acoustic guitar
• Stephanie Bentley — background vocals
• Matraca Berg — background vocals
• Jackson Browne — background vocals
• Sam Bush — mandolin
• David Campbell - conductor, string arrangements
• Mary Chapin Carpenter — background vocals
• Steve Cox — organ
• Dan Dugmore — acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar
• Stuart Duncan — fiddle
• Kim Fleming — background vocals
• Johnny Garcia — acoustic guitar
• Vicki Hampton — background vocals
• Emmylou Harris — background vocals
• Mike Henderson — slide guitar
• Keith Horne — bass guitar
• Greg Morrow — drums, tambourine
• Kim Richey — background vocals
• Tom Roady — percussion
• Kenny Vaughn — electric guitar
• Bobby Wood — piano
• Glenn Worf — bass guitar
• Trisha Yearwood — lead vocals, background vocals

Technical

• Chuck Ainlay — mixing
• Matt Andrews — engineer
• Jeff Balding — engineer
• Chris Ferrara — design
• Sheri McCoy — stylist
• Denny Purcell — mastering
• Dave Sinko — engineer
• Maria Smoot — hair stylist
• Andrew Southam — photography
• Sonya Watson — design
• Trisha Yearwood — producer

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References