Lady & Gentlemen

Lady & GentlemenStudio album by LeAnn Rimes
General information
Release Date	September 27, 2011
Recorded	2010-2011
Length	47:19
Label	Curb
Producer(s)	Vince Gill, Darrell Brown, LeAnn Rimes
Chronology
Previous	Best Sellers, Best Price
Current	Lady & Gentlemen
Next	Spitfire (album)

Lady & Gentlemen is the tenth studio album by American country music recording artist LeAnn Rimes. The album is Rimes' second cover album (the first being her self-titled album.) The only new songs on the album are the two bonus tracks, "Crazy Women" and "Give". It was released on September 27, 2011 by Curb Records. Rimes co-produced the album with country singer, Vince Gill, and Darrell Brown, with whom she collaborated on her 2007 album Family. A vinyl record of the album was released on the same day.

Background

Lady & Gentlemen consists of Rimes covering songs by male country artist, including Vince Gill, who helped produce the album, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. Rimes also "revisited" her 1996 debut single, "Blue" on the album, which she picked up the tempo on. The album was released on September 27, 2011 by Curb Records. A vinyl record of the album was released on the same day. Rimes co-produced the album with country singer, Vince Gill, and Darrell Brown, of whom she collaborated with on her 2007 album Family.

Singles

Three singles were released from the album. The first single released for the album was a cover of John Anderson's 1983 single, "Swingin'" on June 8, 2010. The second single, "Crazy Women", was released on December 10, 2010. A third single, "Give", was released on June 14, 2011.

Critical response

Lady & Gentleman received mostly positive reviews from most music critics. So far it has been given a score of seventy-five out of a hundred from Metacritic. Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it three-in-a-half out of five stars and called it "a collection of masculine country classics reinterpreted by a female singer." Mikael Wood of Entertainment Weekly stated that the album "rarely sheds new light on the top-shelf material." Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine compared the album to Tanya Tucker's 2009 album, My Turn and stated that album finds Rimes "taking real risks and making better music than many of her contemporaries." Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times claimed that Rimes "has been contending lately with flak from image-conscious types over paparazzi photos of her slimmed-down physique, but her leaner, meaner approach to a batch of classic country songs for her latest collection is mostly good news." Ben Ratliff of The New York Times stated that Rimes "can finally ease up on her default vocal style, brassy and belting, which is of course its own gender role."

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Swingin'"	John Anderson, Lionel Delmore	3:02
2.	"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"	Wayne Duncan, Freddy Fender, Huey P. Meaux	4:06
3.	"The Only Mama That'll Walk The Line"	Jimmy Bryant	2:39
4.	"I Can't Be Myself"	Merle Haggard	3:12
5.	"16 Tons"	George S. Davis	2:42
6.	"Help Me Make It Through the Night"	Kris Kristofferson	3:01
7.	"Rose Colored Glasses"	John Conlee, George Baber	3:06
8.	"A Good Hearted Woman"	Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson	3:40
9.	"When I Call Your Name"	Vince Gill, Tim DuBois	3:41
10.	"He Stopped Loving Her Today"	Bobby Braddock, Curly Putman	3:51
11.	"Blue" (with The Time Jumpers)	Bill Mack	2:34
12.	"The Bottle Let Me Down"	Merle Haggard	3:49

Bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Crazy Women"	Brandy Clark, Jessie Jo Dillon, Shane McAnally	3:25
14.	"Give"	Connie Harrington, Sonya Isaacs, Jimmy Yeary	4:31
Total length:			47:19

Credits and personnel

• Credits for Lady & Gentlemen adapted from liner notes.

Ben Fowler — additional recording Brian Scheuble — additional engineering Darrell Brown — executive producer, producer, arrangement, additional engineering Chris Galland — assistant alternate mixing Drew Bollman — recording Erik Madrid — assistant alternate mixing Jenny Gill — production assistant John Hobbs — producer Joshua Blanchard — assistant engineering

Justin Neibank — producer, mixer, recording LeAnn Rimes — executive producer, producer, arrangement Leigh Brannon - production assistant Manny Marroquin - alternate mixing Matt Rausch — assistant recording Paul Smith — assistant recording Ryder Brown — engineering intern The Time Jumpers — band* Vince Gill — producer, arrangement**

*Notes: The Time Jumpers appear courtesy of The Crosswind Music Group
**Notes: Vince Gill appears courtesy of MCA Nashville.

Charts

Album charts Chart (2011) Peak position Australian Top Country Albums 16 UK Albums Chart 96 UK Top Country Albums 2 US Billboard 200 32 US Billboard Top Country Albums 7

Single charts Year Single Peak chart positions US Country US Dance 2010 "Swingin'" 57 — "Crazy Women" 40 — 2011 "Give" 47 11 "—" denotes releases that did not chart

Alternate covers

Alternate cover

References

V*E LeAnn Rimes albums

Main article: LeAnn Rimes discography Independent albums Everybody's Sweetheart (1991) From My Heart to Yours (1992) All That (1994) Studio albums Blue (1996) You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs (1997) Sittin' on Top of the World (1998) LeAnn Rimes (1999) Twisted Angel (2002) What a Wonderful World (2004) This Woman (2005) Whatever We Wanna (2006) Family (2007) Lady & Gentlemen (2011) Spitfire (2013) Today Is Christmas (2015) Remnants (2016) Chant: The Human & The Holy (2020) God's Work (2022) Compilations Unchained Melody: The Early Years (1997) God Bless America (2001) I Need You (2002) Greatest Hits (2003) The Best of LeAnn Rimes (2004) The Best of LeAnn Rimes: Remixed (2004) Dance Like You Don't Give A.... Greatest Hits Remixes (2014) All-Time Greatest Hits (2015) The Biggest Hits of LeAnn Rimes: How Do I Live (2018) Extended Plays Best Sellers, Best Price (2010) One Christmas: Chapter 1 (2014) Re-Imagined (2018) Live albums Rimes: Live at Gruene Hall (2019)