Are You Ready for the Big Show?
Are You Ready for the Big Show? | ||||
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Live album by Radney Foster | ||||
Released | June 26, 2001 (2001-06-26) | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Dualtone | |||
Producer | Radney Foster | |||
Radney Foster chronology | ||||
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Are You Ready for the Big Show? is the fourth album by American country music singer Radney Foster. It was released in 2001 for Dualtone Records. It is a live album, featuring re-recordings of Foster's past songs, including his first two singles, "Just Call Me Lonesome" and "Nobody Wins". Also included as a hidden track is "Texas in 1880", which Foster originally released in 1988 as one-half of Foster & Lloyd.[1]
The version from this album, a duet with Pat Green, charted at number 54 on Hot Country Songs in 2001.[2]
Critical reception
Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, Matt Reasor of Allmusic said that Foster "returns full circle to his neo-traditionalist roots".[1] Jim Caliguri of The Austin Chronicle gave the album three stars, saying that it was "an accurate snapshot of another night of South Austin musical magic."[3]
Track listing
All songs written by Radney Foster; co-writers in parentheses.
- "Are You Ready for the Big Show?" — 0:15A
- "Tonight" (Mac McAnally) — 4:14
- "God Knows When" — 4:01
- "Just Call Me Lonesome" (George Ducas) — 3:27
- "Something Stupid" — 0:12A
- "School of Hard Knocks" — 3:18
- "Intro to Went for a Ride" — 1:45A
- "Went for a Ride" (Alice Randall) — 4:06
- "I'm Used to It" — 4:13
- "Folding Money" — 6:57
- "Leaning on What Love Can Do" — 4:36
- "How You Play the Hand" (Peter Smith) — 4:09
- "Nobody Wins" (Foster, Kim Richey) — 4:19
- "We Know Better" — 0:08A
- "I'm In" (Georgia Middleman) — 5:56
- "Texas in 1880" — 4:08B
- duet with Pat Green
- "Tonight (reprise)" (Foster, McAnally) — 4:06B
- AInterstitial sketch.
- BHidden track.
Personnel
- Jeff Armstrong - Hammond organ, Wurlitzer
- Ashley Arrison - backing vocals
- Radney Foster - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
- Pat Green - vocals on "Texas in 1880"
- Byron House - upright bass
- Mike McAdam - electric guitar, slide guitar
- Charlie Miller - introduction
- Chris Thile - mandolin
- Matt Thompson - drums, trash cans, backing vocals
References
- ^ a b Reasor, Matt. "Are You Ready for the Big Show? review". Allmusic. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
- ^ Caliguri, Jim (June 29, 2001). "Are You Ready for the Big Show? review". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
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- Del Rio, TX 1959
- Labor of Love
- See What You Want to See
- Are You Ready for the Big Show?
- Another Way to Go
- "Just Call Me Lonesome"
- "Nobody Wins"
- "Easier Said Than Done"
- "The Running Kind"
- "I'm In" (with Abra Moore)
- "Texas in 1880" (with Pat Green)