''Love and Luck'' is the eighth studio album by American
country music singer
Marty Stuart
John Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958) is an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter, and musician. Active since 1968, Stuart initially toured with Lester Flatt, and then in Johnny Cash's road band before beginning work as a ...
, released in 1994. Nearly all the songs were written or co-written by Stuart himself. The album includes the singles "Love and Luck" and "Kiss Me, I'm Gone". "Wheels" is a cover of
The Flying Burrito Brothers, and "If I Give My Soul" of
Billy Joe Shaver.
Daniel Gioffre of
Allmusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, praising the covers of Shaver and
the Byrds and saying that the album "shows his range nicely".
Track listing
Personnel
Compiled from liner notes.
;Musicians (all tracks except "Love and Luck")
* Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
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Stuart Duncan
Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo.
Life
Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band. He ...
- fiddle,
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
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Béla Fleck -
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
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Paul Franklin -
steel guitar
A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...
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John Barlow Jarvis - piano, keyboards
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John Jorgenson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
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Steve Nathan - synthesizer, keyboards
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Randy Scruggs - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
* Marty Stuart - lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin
*
Lonnie Wilson - drums
;Musicians on "Love and Luck"
*
Eddie Bayers - drums
*
Vince Gill - background vocals
* Liana Manis - background vocals
* Larry Marrs - background vocals
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Brent Mason - mandolin
*
Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
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Ricky Skaggs - background vocals
*
Harry Stinson - background vocals
;Technical
*
Tony Brown - production
* John Guess - recording, mixer
* Glenn Meadows - mastering
* Marty Stuart - production
* Marty Williams - overdubbing
Chart performance
References
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1994 albums
Albums produced by Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart albums
MCA Records albums
Albums produced by Tony Brown (record producer)