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Length
  
39:19

Artist
  
Radney Foster

Label
  
Arista Nashville

Del Rio, TX 1959 (1992)
  
Labor of Love (1995)

Release date
  
29 September 1992

Genre
  
Country music

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Released
  
September 29, 1992 (1992-09-29)

Recorded
  
1992 at Treasure Isle and Champaign Studios, Nashville, TN

Producers
  
Steve Fishell, Radney Foster

Similar
  
Radney Foster albums, Country music albums

Del Rio, TX 1959 is the debut album of American country music artist Radney Foster. It was released in 1992 (see 1992 in country music) on the Arista Nashville label, and it produced five singles for Foster on the Billboard country charts: "Just Call Me Lonesome", "Nobody Wins", "Easier Said Than Done", "Hammer and Nails", and "Closing Time". All of these except "Closing Time" were Top 40 hits on the country charts; "Nobody Wins" was the highest-charting, reaching #2.

Contents

The album's title refers to Foster's birth year and birthplace.

Track listing

  1. "Just Call Me Lonesome" (Radney Foster, George Ducas) – 3:09
  2. "Don't Say Goodbye" (Foster) – 3:30
  3. "Easier Said Than Done" (Foster) – 3:39
  4. "A Fine Line" (Foster) – 4:00
  5. "Went for a Ride" (Foster, Alice Randall) – 4:06
  6. "Nobody Wins" (Foster, Kim Richey) – 3:29
  7. "Louisiana Blue" (Foster, Beth Nielsen Chapman) – 3:23
  8. "Closing Time" (Foster, Mark Sager) – 3:38
  9. "Hammer and Nails" (Foster, Cindy Bullens) – 5:00
  10. "Old Silver" (Foster) – 5:25

Personnel

The band
  • Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar
  • Steve Fishell – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
  • Radney Foster – acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Bill Hullett – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, 6-string bass, mandolin
  • Michael Joyce – bass guitar
  • Bob Mummert – drums, percussion, tire iron ("Hammer and Nails")
  • John Propst – piano
  • Pete Wasner – piano, Hammond B-3 organ
    • Additional musicians
  • Glen Duncan – fiddle on "Louisiana Blue" and "Closing Time", viola on "Easier Said than Done"
  • Albert Lee – lead guitar on "Don't Say Goodbye" and "Louisiana Blue"
  • George Marinelli – lead guitar on "Hammer and Nails" and "A Fine Line"
    • On "Old Silver"
  • Sam Bush – mandolin
  • Lee Roy Parnell – National guitar
  • Randy Scruggs – guitar
  • Harry Stinson – drums
  • Glenn Worf – upright bass
    • Backing vocalists
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter – "Nobody Wins"
  • John Hiatt – "Hammer and Nails"
  • Carl Jackson – "Just Call Me Lonesome", "Louisiana Blue"
  • Kim Richey – "Easier Said than Done", "A Fine Line", "Went for a Ride", "Closing Time", "Old Silver"
  • Harry Stinson – "Don't Say Goodbye", "Old Silver"
  • Cindy Williams – "Closing Time"
  • Curtis Young – "A Fine Line", "Closing Time"
    • Technical
  • Chuck Ainlay – mixing (all tracks except "Nobody Wins")
  • Randy Best – mixing ("Nobody Wins")
  • Steve Fishell – production
  • Radney Foster – production
  • Mike Poole – recording, mixing ("Old Silver" only)

    • Songs

    1Just Call Me Lonesome3:11
    2Don't Say Goodbye3:32
    3Easier Said Than Done3:41

    References

    Del Rio, TX 1959 Wikipedia
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