Lionel Cartwright (album)

Lionel Cartwright is the debut studio album by American country music singer Lionel Cartwright. It was released in March 1989 (see 1989 in country music) on MCA Records. The album includes the singles "You're Gonna Make Her Mine", "Like Father, Like Son", "Give Me His Last Chance" and "In My Eyes". These latter three singles all charted in the Top 40 on the Billboard country singles charts.

Lionel Cartwright
Studio album by Lionel Cartwright
Released	March 6, 1989
Recorded	August–November 1988
Studio	Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre	Country
Length	34:18
Label	MCA
Producer	Tony Brown Steuart Smith
Lionel Cartwright chronology
Lionel Cartwright (1989) I Watched It on the Radio (1990)
Singles from Lionel Cartwright
"You're Gonna Make Her Mine" Released: October 1988 "Like Father Like Son" Released: February 18, 1989 "Give Me His Last Chance" Released: June 5, 1989 "In My Eyes" Released: October 2, 1989

Dan Cooper of Allmusic rated the album four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that out of Cartwright's three albums, it was "still his best."^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Lionel Cartwright except "Like Father Like Son", written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz.^[2]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Fallin' Again"	3:29
2.	"Like Father Like Son"	3:28
3.	"You're Gonna Make Her Mine"	2:32
4.	"A Little Lesser Blue"	3:17
5.	"In My Eyes"	4:14
6.	"Give Me His Last Chance"	4:12
7.	"That's Why They Call It Falling"	2:57
8.	"Blue Fiddle Waltz"	3:26
9.	"She Never Saw Love"	3:23
10.	"Let the Hard Times Roll"	3:20

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	44

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1988	"You're Gonna Make Her Mine"	45	—
1989	"Like Father Like Son"	14	21
	"Give Me His Last Chance"	3	7
	"In My Eyes"	12	6
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[2]

• Eddie Bayers - drums
• Lionel Cartwright - mandolin, acoustic guitar, piano, fiddle, lead vocals, background vocals
• Pat Flynn - acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Steve Gibson - electric guitar
• Vince Gill - background vocals
• David Hungate - bass guitar
• John Barlow Jarvis - piano
• Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Mark O'Connor - mandolin, viola
• Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
• Tom Robb - bass guitar
• Matt Rollings - piano
• Steuart Smith - piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Harry Stinson - drums, background vocals