''Real Live Woman'' is the eighth studio album by American

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singer

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, 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

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called " Sad Eyes", a song by

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titled, "Try Me Again", and a song by

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called "Wild For You Baby".

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, and

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provide harmony vocals for some of the album's tracks. It was given 3 out of 5 stars by

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Track listing

Australian bonus tracks

" You're Where I Belong" (
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) - 4:15 (also available on the Japan pressing)
" Something So Right" (
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) - 4:11

Personnel

– lead vocals, backing vocals (3, 9) * Steve Cox –

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...

(1–4, 8, 11), acoustic piano (8, 12),

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from 1954 to 1983. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptually similar to ...

(10) *

Steve Nathan Steven Jay Nathan (born April 20, 1951) is an American keyboardist. He is known for his session work in Muscle Shoals and Nashville studios. Biography Nathan was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. In 1977, Nathan moved to Muscle Shoals, A ...

– keyboards (4, 5), acoustic piano (6), Hammond B3 organ (6),

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

(11) * Bobby Wood – acoustic piano (7) *

Kenny Vaughan Kenneth Weber Vaughan is an American guitarist. He is best known as a long-time member of Marty Stuart’s supporting band, The Fabulous Superlatives. Career Early life Vaughan was born in Oklahoma, but raised in Denver, Colorado. His guitar in ...

– 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 James Darrell Scott (born August 6, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He has written several mainstream country hits, and is well-established as one of Nashville's premier session instrumentalists. B ...

–

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...

(1), acoustic guitar (3–6, 8) * Al Anderson – acoustic guitar (9) *

Dan Dugmore Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing the pedal steel guitar Born in 1949, Dugmore was raised in Pasadena, California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers, he learned to play steel guitar after Flying Bur ...

–

lap steel guitar The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar or lap slide guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual manner of pla ...

(1, 2, 9, 10), acoustic guitar solo (2),

steel guitar A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...

(3, 5, 6, 8),

dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

(4), electric guitar (7, 11, 12), acoustic guitar (9),

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

(11) *

Mike Henderson Michael James Henderson (July 14, 1953 – September 22, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter. In addition to his solo career, which included five studio albums, Henderson was a member of the country band The SteelDrivers from 2005 to 2011 an ...

– slide guitar (7) *

Sam Bush Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. ...

–

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

(7) * Keith Horne – bass (1–6, 8–12) *

Glenn Worf Glenn Worf is an American bassist known mainly for his work as a session musician. He has recorded with many major country music acts and also tours with Mark Knopfler. Early life and education Worf was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Madis ...

– bass (7) *

Greg Morrow Greg Morrow is an American drummer, percussionist, session musician, mixing engineer, and vocalist. Biography Morrow was born in Ripley, Tennessee and raised in Memphis. At age 11, Morrow and his band performed on a local TV show, and he par ...

– drums (1–6, 8, 10, 11, 12),

maracas A maraca ( , , ), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas, also known as tamaracas, were rattles of d ...

(1),

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thoug ...

(3, 4) *

Eddie Bayers Eddie Bayers (born January 28, 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, has three times won the Nashville Music ...

– drums (7) * Tom Roady – percussion (2, 7, 9, 10),

triangle A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called ''vertices'', are zero-dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called ''edges'', are one-dimension ...

(5), tambourine (11) *

Stuart Duncan Stuart Ian Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school ...

–

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

(7, 8) * David Campbell – string arrangements and conductor (7, 10, 12) *

– backing vocals (1) *

Kim Richey Kimberly Richey (born December 1, 1956) is an American singer and songwriter. Early life Richey was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on December 1, 1956. She grew up in Kettering, Ohio, graduating from Fairmont East High school in 1973. Career Riche ...

– backing vocals (1) * Bob Bailey – backing vocals (2, 6, 8) * Kim Fleming – backing vocals (2, 6, 8) * Vicki Hampton – backing vocals (2, 6, 8) *

– backing vocals (3) *

Stephanie Bentley Stephanie Kay Bentley (born April 29, 1963) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 1996 as a duet partner on Ty Herndon's single "Heart Half Empty", which peaked at No. 21 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Track ...

– backing vocals (5) *

– backing vocals (7) *

Matraca Berg Matraca Maria Berg Hanna (; born February 3, 1964, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She has released five albums: three for RCA Records, one for Rising Tide Records and one for Dualtone Records, and h ...

– backing vocals (9, 11) * Gordon Kennedy – backing vocals (12) *

Wayne Kirkpatrick Wayne Kirkpatrick (born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Greenville, MS, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979. His younger brother is American screenwriter and d ...

– 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

Certifications

References

{{Authority control MCA Records albums Trisha Yearwood albums 2000 albums Albums produced by Garth Fundis