Lone Star State of Mind is Nanci Griffith's fifth album, and her first with a major recording label. Griffith's music took a turn from her original folk music base into more commercially viable country music. For this album, she enlisted the talents of veteran country producer Tony Brown. The album garnered her first appearance on the Billboard Country charts, rising to #23 on the Country Albums chart, and is her highest charting album. The title track, "Lone Star State of Mind," became the first of only three Griffith singles to enter the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. It peaked at #36, while two other singles from the album, "Cold Hearts/Closed Minds" and "Trouble in the Fields", reached #64 and #57 respectively. "From a Distance" failed to chart because it was released only as a promotional single in the USA.[3] That song successfully hit the charts when Bette Midler covered it in 1990.
Track listing
All tracks written by Nanci Griffith, except as indicated.
Personnel
- Pat Alger - acoustic guitar, hi-string guitar
- John Catchings - cello
- Phillip Donnelly - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Béla Fleck - banjo
- Emory Gordy Jr. - bass guitar, mandolin
- Lloyd Green - dobro, pedal steel guitar
- Nanci Griffith - acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
- Roy Huskey Jr. - upright bass
- John Barlow Jarvis - piano
- Lucy Kaplanski - background vocals
- Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion
- Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Mark O'Connor - fiddle, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola, viola, violin
- Rick West - acoustic guitar
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Peak
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums |
23[4] |
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