Lead Me Not

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Lead Me Not
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ReleasedApril 27, 1993 (1993-04-27)
Genre Country
Length34:35
Label RCA Nashville
Producer Rodney Crowell, Steuart Smith, Lari White
Lari White chronology
Lead Me Not
(1993)
Wishes
(1994)
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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.

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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.

In 2020, it was reported that the official music video for "Lead Me Not" had gone missing. [1] According to the piece, the record label claimed to have no knowledge of the music video and no copy of the video production in their vault.

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" (Suzi Ragsdale, Verlon Thompson) – 3:10
  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

"Anything Goes" is omitted from the cassette version.

Personnel

Adapted from Lead Me Not liner notes. [2]

Strings on "Just Thinking" and "Don't Leave Me Lonely"

Connie Ellisor, John Catchings, Anthony LaMarchina, Bob Mason, Julia Tanner, Jim Grosjean, Kathryn Plummer, Kristin Wilkinson, David Davidson, Carl Gorodetzky, Lee Larrison, Ted Madsen, Laura Molyneaux, Pamela Sixfin, Alan Umstead

"RC and the Moonpie Choir" on "Good Good Love"

Rodney Crowell, Vince Santoro, Joy Askew, Stephony Smith, Mark Luna, Russ Taff, Jonell Mosser, Connie Reeder, Chuck Cannon, Jackie Welch, Claudia Church, Peter Penrose, Lari White

Technical

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References

  1. "Did this Lari White music video really even happen?". Joseph Fenity. Retrieved 2021-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Lead Me Not (CD booklet). Lari White. RCA Records. 1993. 07863 66117-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)