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{{Infobox album
| name = Lionel Cartwright
| type = studio
| artist = [[Lionel Cartwright]]
| cover = lioneldebut.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 6, 1989
| recorded = August–November 1988
| venue =
| studio = Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| length = 34:18
| label = [[MCA Records|MCA]]
| producer = [[Tony Brown (record producer)|Tony Brown]]<br>[[Steuart Smith]]
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[I Watched It on the Radio]]
| next_year = 1990
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Lionel Cartwright
| type = studio
| single1 = You're Gonna Make Her Mine
| single1date = October 1988
| single2 = [[Like Father Like Son (song)|Like Father Like Son]]
| single2date = February 18, 1989
| single3 = [[Give Me His Last Chance]]
| single3date = June 5, 1989
| single4 = [[In My Eyes (Lionel Cartwright song)|In My Eyes]]
| single4date = October 2, 1989
}}
}}

'''''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 (magazine)|Billboard]]'' country singles charts.

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."<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r115683|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Lionel Cartwright'' review|last=Cooper|first=Dan|work=Allmusic|accessdate=2009-09-25}}</ref>

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Lionel Cartwright]] except "Like Father Like Son", written by [[Paul Overstreet]] and [[Don Schlitz]].<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes |title=Lionel Cartwright |others=Lionel Cartwright |year=1989 |type=CD booklet |publisher=MCA Records |id=MCAD-42276}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| total length =

| title1 = Fallin' Again
| length1 = 3:29

| title2 = [[Like Father Like Son (song)|Like Father Like Son]]
| length2 = 3:28

| title3 = You're Gonna Make Her Mine
| length3 = 2:32

| title4 = A Little Lesser Blue
| length4 = 3:17

| title5 = [[In My Eyes (Lionel Cartwright song)|In My Eyes]]
| length5 = 4:14

| title6 = [[Give Me His Last Chance]]
| length6 = 4:12

| title7 = That's Why They Call It Falling
| length7 = 2:57

| title8 = Blue Fiddle Waltz
| length8 = 3:26

| title9 = She Never Saw Love
| length9 = 3:23

| title10 = Let the Hard Times Roll
| length10 = 3:20
}}

==Chart performance==
{| class="wikitable"
! Chart (1989)
! Peak<br />position
|-
| U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums
| align="center"| 44
|}

===Singles===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single
! colspan="2"| Peak positions
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:50px;"| [[Hot Country Songs|US Country]]
! style="width:50px;"| [[RPM (magazine)|CAN Country]]
|-
| 1988
| style="text-align:left;"| "You're Gonna Make Her Mine"
| 45
| —
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1989
| style="text-align:left;"| "Like Father Like Son"
| 14
| 21
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "Give Me His Last Chance"
| 3
| 7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| "In My Eyes"
| 12
| 6
|-
| colspan="7" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart
|-
|}

==Personnel==
As listed in liner notes.<ref name="liner"/>

* [[Eddie Bayers]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
* Lionel Cartwright - [[mandolin]], [[acoustic guitar]], [[piano]], [[fiddle]], lead vocals, background vocals
* [[Pat Flynn (musician)|Pat Flynn]] - acoustic guitar
* [[Paul Franklin (musician)|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 (musician)|Michael Rhodes]] - bass guitar
* Tom Robb - bass guitar
* [[Matt Rollings]] - piano
* [[Steuart Smith]] - piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
* [[Harry Stinson (musician)|Harry Stinson]] - drums, background vocals

==References==
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[[Category:1989 debut albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Tony Brown (record producer)]]
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[[Category:MCA Records albums]]

Lionel Cartwright (album) - Revision history

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