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It's Your Call (1992)

Where the lyrics of It's Your Call take you, and where it was really made.

Reba McEntire called this album a second chapter to her previous record, and it went to number 1 on the country album chart.

Key places

Recording at Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville (1992)

Recording site Nashville — The album is listed as recorded at Emerald Sound Studios and Masterfonics in Nashville, Tennessee. The point is placed at the city center, not at an exact building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• It's Your Call: eighteenth studio album by American country singer Reba McEntire
• Released December 1992
• Manufactured by Columbia House under license, according to Discogs
• Peaked at number 1 on the country album chart and number 8 on the Billboard 200
• Sold 104,000 copies in its first week
• Her first top 10 album on the Billboard 200
• Certified 3× Multi-platinum by the RIAA
• Ten tracks in the track listing

Background

• Includes the duet "The Heart Won't Lie" with Vince Gill
• The duet was later ranked number 18 on CMT's list of the 100 Greatest Country Duets
• Includes a re-recording of "Baby's Gone Blues"
• The original version was recorded in 1987 by Patty Loveless for her album If My Heart Had Windows
• McEntire called the album a "second chapter to For My Broken Heart," her 1991 album

Recording

• Produced by Tony Brown and Reba McEntire
• John Guess handled recording engineering, overdub recording, and mixing
• Marty Williams worked on overdub recording as second engineer
• Glenn Meadows did digital editing and mastering
• Recorded at Emerald Sound Studios and Masterfonics in Nashville, Tennessee
• Matt Rollings and John Barlow Jarvis played acoustic piano and synthesizers
• Steve Gibson and George Marinelli Jr. played guitars, Michael Rhodes played bass, Paul Leim played drums
• Terry Crisp played steel guitar on tracks 1 and 2; Joe McGlohon played saxophone on track 3
• Vince Gill sings on track 5
• Backing vocals by Linda Davis, Mary Ann Kennedy, Donna McElroy, Harry Stinson and others

Cover

• Art direction and design by Mickey Braithwaite
• Photography by Jim "Señor" McGuire

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Early life

• Born March 28, 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma; raised on a ranch in Chockie, Oklahoma.
• Third of four children of Clark and Jacqueline McEntire; her father was a three-time world steer roping champion.
• With her siblings she formed the trio the Singing McEntires, performing at local events and dance halls.
• Studied elementary education and music at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Career

• Country singer Red Steagall heard her at a 1974 rodeo and helped her sign with PolyGram/Mercury Records in 1975.
• Her breakout came with the 1984 MCA album My Kind of Country, which produced two number-one country singles.
• The album Whoever's in New England won a Grammy Award and topped the Billboard country albums chart.
• After a 1991 plane crash that killed eight band members, she released For My Broken Heart, her best-selling album.
• Sold more than 75 million records worldwide; 24 of her singles reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
• Starred in the sitcom Reba (six seasons) and in the NBC sitcom Happy's Place.

Members

• Solo artist; her siblings Pake and Susie were early members of the Singing McEntires.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Released in December 1992 as the eighteenth studio album by Reba McEntire
• Reached number 1 on the country album chart
• Reached number 8 on the Billboard 200
• Sold 104,000 copies in its first week of release
• Became her first top 10 album on the Billboard 200
• McEntire described it as a second chapter to For My Broken Heart, her 1991 album

Records

• Certified 3× Multi-platinum by the RIAA
• The duet "The Heart Won't Lie" with Vince Gill was ranked number 18 on CMT's list of the 100 Greatest Country Duets
• The album was manufactured by Columbia House under license, according to Discogs
• The album includes a re-recording of "Baby's Gone Blues" first recorded in 1987 by Patty Loveless
• Chart, sales, and certification facts above are the main documented records for this album
• Its country chart peak and its Billboard 200 peak are listed separately, both at the top of their respective charts

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• McEntire called the album a second chapter to For My Broken Heart, her 1991 album.
• The re-recording of "Baby's Gone Blues" was first recorded in 1987 by Patty Loveless for her album If My Heart Had Windows.
• The Discogs release notes say the album was manufactured by Columbia House under license.
• The duet "The Heart Won't Lie" with Vince Gill was later ranked number 18 on CMT's list of the 100 Greatest Country Duets.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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