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Lead Me Not

Lead Me Not is the debut album of American country music artist Lari White. It was issued on April 27, 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.

Lead Me Not
Studio album by
Lari White
ReleasedApril 27, 1993 (1993-04-27)
GenreCountry
Length34:35
LabelRCA Nashville
Producer
Lari White chronology
Lead Me Not
(1993) 		Wishes
(1994)
Singles from Lead Me Not
  1. "What a Woman Wants"
    Released: February 1, 1993
  2. "Lead Me Not"
    Released: April 1993[1]
  3. "Lay Around and Love on You"
    Released: August 1993[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Entertainment WeeklyA− link

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 the top-forty of the chart. Although the album failed to enter the US Top Country Albums chart, it did peak at number 36 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers charts.

In 2020, it was reported that the official music video for "Lead Me Not" had gone missing.[3] 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

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"Anything Goes" is excluded from the cassette version of the album.

Lead Me Not track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Itty Bitty Single Solitary Piece O' My Heart"
  • Lari White
  • John Rotch
3:28
2."Just Thinking"White3:30
3."Lay Around and Love on You"
  • Bobby David
  • David Gillon
2:54
4."Lead Me Not"White4:06
5."Made to Be Broken"White3:56
6."What a Woman Wants"
3:04
7."Anything Goes"
3:10
8."When the Lights Are Low"
2:54
9."Don't Leave Me Lonely"
  • White
  • Cannon
3:29
10."Good Good Love"
  • White
  • Rotch
4:04
Total length:34:35

Personnel

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Adapted from Lead Me Not liner notes.[4]

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
  • Donivan Cowart - recording
  • Rodney Crowell - producer
  • Glenn Meadows - mastering
  • Roger Nichols - engineer, recording, mixing
  • Stephony Smith - producer
  • Bergen White - string arrangement (2, 9)
  • Lari White - producer

Charts

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Chart (1993) Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[5] 36

References

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  1. ^ "New & Active: Country". Radio & Records. No. 990. April 30, 1993. p. 46.
  2. ^ "Significant Action: Country". Radio & Records. No. 1006. August 20, 1993. p. 56.
  3. ^ "Did this Lari White music video really even happen?". Joseph Fenity. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ "Lari White Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
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