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Lady & Gentlemen (2011)

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Only two of the 14 tracks on this album are new songs; the rest are covers of songs by male country artists.

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Lady & Gentlemen is the twelfth studio album by American country singer LeAnn Rimes
It is Rimes' second cover album, after her self-titled album
The only new songs are the two bonus tracks, "Crazy Women" and "Give"
Released on 27 September 2011 by Curb Records
A vinyl edition came out on the same day
Rimes co-produced the album with country singer Vince Gill and Darrell Brown
Rimes and Darrell Brown had worked together on her 2007 album Family

The album consists of Rimes covering songs by male country artists
Artists include Vince Gill, who also helped produce the album, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings
Rimes also revisited her 1996 debut single "Blue" and picked up its tempo
The Time Jumpers appear on the track "Blue" under courtesy of The Crosswind Music Group
Vince Gill appears courtesy of MCA Nashville

Justin Niebank is credited as mixer
Drew Bollman and Justin Niebank recorded tracks 1 to 11
Niko Bolas recorded tracks 12 to 14
Darrell Brown and Ben Fowler are credited as additional recording personnel on tracks 12 to 14
The album contains 14 tracks in total, including the two bonus tracks

1	Swingin’	3:02
2	Wasted Days & Wasted Nights	4:07
3	The Only Mama That’ll Walk the Line	2:39
4	I Can’t Be Myself	3:12
5	16 Tons	2:43
6	Help Me Make It Through the Night	3:01
7	Rose Colored Glasses	3:06
8	A Good Hearted Woman	3:41
9	When I Call Your Name	3:41
10	He Stopped Loving Her Today	3:51
11	Blue	2:35
12	The Bottle Let Me Down	3:49
13	Crazy Women	3:26
14	Give	4:32

Born August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi; raised in Garland, Texas.
Began in musical theatre and local talent shows; appeared on Star Search and Johnnie High's Country Music Revue.
Released independent albums Everybody's Sweetheart (1991) and All That (1994).

Signed with Curb Records in 1996; the single "Blue" reached the top 10 on Billboard Hot Country Songs.
Blue (1996) won Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, the youngest winner of both.
"How Do I Live" (1997) became one of the best-selling singles of the 1990s.
Has placed more than 40 singles on international charts and sold more than 48 million records worldwide.
Acted in films and television, and coached on The Voice Australia and The Voice UK in 2024.

AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album 3.5 out of 5 stars and called it a collection of masculine country classics reinterpreted by a female singer
Mikael Wood of Entertainment Weekly wrote 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
Keefe wrote that the album finds Rimes taking real risks and making better music than many of her contemporaries
Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times noted that Rimes had recently faced criticism from image-conscious people over paparazzi photos of her slimmed-down physique
Lewis wrote that her leaner, meaner approach to classic country songs was mostly good news
Ben Ratliff of The New York Times wrote that Rimes can finally ease up on her default brassy and belting vocal style

Three singles were released from the album, the last one, "Give", on 14 June 2011
A vinyl record of the album was released on the same day as the CD release

The first single was a cover of John Anderson's 1983 single "Swingin'", released on 8 June 2010
The second single "Crazy Women" came out on 10 December 2010, and it is one of the two new bonus tracks
Rimes first recorded "Blue" in 1994 for her independent album All That, and the song's original single dates from 1958
"When I Call Your Name" is credited to Vince Gill and Tim DuBois
The track listing has 12 covers plus two bonus tracks, making 14 songs in total