Lionel Cartwright is the debut studio album by American country music singer Lionel Cartwright. It was released in March 1989 (see 1989 in country music) on MCA Records. The album includes the singles "You're Gonna Make Her Mine", "Like Father, Like Son", "Give Me His Last Chance" and "In My Eyes". These latter three singles all charted in the Top 40 on the Billboard country singles charts.
Dan Cooper of Allmusic rated the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that out of Cartwright's three albums, it was "still his best."
Track listing All songs written by Lionel Cartwright except "Like Father Like Son", written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz.
Chart performance Chart (1989) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 44
Singles Year Single Peak positions US Country CAN Country 1988 "You're Gonna Make Her Mine" 45 — 1989 "Like Father Like Son" 14 21 "Give Me His Last Chance" 3 7 "In My Eyes" 12 6 "—" denotes releases that did not chart
Personnel As listed in liner notes.
Lionel Cartwright – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic piano, keyboards, acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle John Barlow Jarvis – acoustic piano, keyboards Matt Rollings – acoustic piano, keyboards Steuart Smith – acoustic piano, keyboards, electric guitars, acoustic guitar Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar Steve Gibson – electric guitars Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar, backing vocals Paul Franklin – steel guitar, pedabro Mark O'Connor – mandolin, viola David Hungate – bass Michael Rhodes – bass Tom Robb – bass Eddie Bayers – drums Harry Stinson – drums, backing vocals Vince Gill – backing vocals
Production Tony Brown – producer Steuart Smith – producer Chuck Ainlay – recording, overdub recording, mixing Bob Bullock – recording, overdub recording, mixing Mark Coddington – overdub recording, second engineer John Guess – mixing Julian King – second engineer Tim Kish – second engineer Russ Martin – second engineer Milan Bogdan – digital editing Glenn Meadows – mastering Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – editing and mastering location Andy Byrd – pre-production Jessie Noble – project coordinator Simon Levy – art direction Tal Howell – design Glenn Hall – photography
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