Lead Me Not

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Lead Me Not
Studio album by Lari White
Released	April 27, 1993 (1993-04-27)
Genre	Country
Length	34:35
Label	RCA Nashville
Producer	Rodney Crowell Steuart Smith Lari White
Professional reviews
All Music Guide - link
Lari White chronology
Lead Me Not (1993) Wishes (1994)

Lead Me Not is the debut album of American country music artist Lari White. It was issued in 1993 on the Nashville division of RCA Records. White produced the album along with Rodney Crowell and Eagles guitarist Steuart Smith. In addition, she wrote or co-wrote eight of the album's ten tracks.

The album's three singles -- "What a Woman Wants", the title track, and "Lay Around and Love on You" -- all charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, although all three failed to make Top 40. The album itself peaked at #36 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers charts.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Itty Bitty Single Solitary Piece O' My Heart" (Lari White, John Rotch) – 3:28
2. "Just Thinking" (White) – 3:30
3. "Lay Around and Love on You" (Bobby David, David Gillon) – 2:54
4. "Lead Me Not" (White) – 4:06
5. "Made to Be Broken" (White) – 3:56
6. "What a Woman Wants" (White, Chuck Cannon) – 3:04
7. "Anything Goes" (Suzy Ragsdale, Verlon Thompson) – 3:10^A
8. "When the Lights Are Low" (White, Chris Waters) – 2:54
9. "Don't Leave Me Lonely" (White, Cannon) – 3:29
10. "Good Good Love" (White, Rotch) – 4:04

^ATrack omitted from cassette version.

[edit] Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

• Dale Armstrong – percussion, bongos, bells
• Joy Askew – harmony vocals
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Larry Byrom – electric guitar
• Chuck Cannon – harmony vocals
• Jerry Douglas – Dobro
• Radney Foster – "tag team" harmony vocals, gut string guitar
• Robert Greenridge – steel drums
• Jim Horn – tenor saxophone
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano, "Wurlitzer-ish"
• Randy Leago – organ, accordion
• Albert Lee – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Korg T3
• Mark Luna – "ridiculously high" harmony vocals
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Bill Payne – piano, Hammond organ
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar, fretless bass
• Vince Santoro – drums, cowbell, cymbals, bells, claves, harmony vocals
• Stephony Smith – harmony vocals
• Steuart Smith – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar
• Tommy Spurlock – pedal steel guitar
• Russ Taff – "featured soul vocal"
• Lari White – lead vocals
• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle

Strings on tracks 2 and 9 performed by the Nashville String Machine and arranged by Bergen White.

"R.C. and the Moonpie Tabernacle Choir" on Track 10: Joy Askew, Chuck Cannon, Claudia Church, Rodney Crowell, Mark Luna, Jonell Moser, Peter Penrose, Connie Reeder, Vince Santoro, Stephony Smith, Russ Taff, Jackie Welch, Lari White

[edit] References

• Lead Me Not at All Music Guide
• Album's liner notes