Real Live Woman

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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 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

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 –
  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)
• 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

Certifications

References