Lonesome Standard Time is the title of an album released in 1992 by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Kathy Mattea

Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...

. Her seventh studio album, it was also her fourth to receive an RIAA gold certification, although none of its singles were Top Ten country hits. The title track was its lead-off single, peaking at #11 on Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

, followed by the Top 20 "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)", then "Seeds" (her first single since 1985 to miss the Top 40) and "Listen to the Radio", which also failed to make Top 40.

Track listing

1. "Lonesome Standard Time" (Larry Cordle
   Larry Cordle
   Larry Cordle was born in eastern Kentucky and is an American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter. Cordle is most famous for his song "Murder on Music Row", which was recorded by George Strait and Alan Jackson and received the CMA Award for Song of the Year in 2000.-Career:Cordle has written...
   
   , Jim Rushing) – 2:46
2. "Lonely at the Bottom" (Jan Dowling, Mike Dowling) – 3:10
3. "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)" (Bucky Jones, Dickey Lee
   Dickey Lee
   Royden Dickey Lipscomb , known professionally as Dickey Lee , is an American pop/country singer and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs "Patches" and "Laurie ."-Career:Lee made his first recordings in his hometown of Memphis for Tampa...
   
   , Bob McDill
   Bob McDill
   Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...
   
   ) – 4:08
4. "Forgive and Forget" (Kieran Kane
   Kieran Kane
   Kieran Kane is an American country music artist, as well as the owner of Dead Reckoning Records, an independent record label. Between 1986 and 1990, he and Jamie O'Hara comprised The O'Kanes, a duo which charted seven singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, including the Number...
   
   ) – 2:47
5. "Last Night I Dreamed of Loving You" (Hugh Moffatt) – 3:31
6. "Listen to the Radio" (Nanci Griffith
   Nanci Griffith
   Nanci Griffith, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 2:59
7. "Slow Boat" (George Teren, Jon Vezner) – 2:59
8. "33, 45, 78 (Record Time)" (Steve Key) – 2:57
9. "Amarillo" (Rodney Crowell
   Rodney Crowell
   Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
   
   , Emmylou Harris
   Emmylou Harris
   Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
   
   ) – 3:07
10. "Seeds" (Pat Alger
    Pat Alger
    Pat Alger is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.-Biography:Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs...
    
    , Ralph Murthy) – 3:47

Personnel

• Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...
  
   – drums
• Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom is an American guitarist who has written, recorded, and toured with acts like Steppenwolf, Ratchell, Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Peter Frampton, Eddie Rabbit and Tanya Tucker.- References :...
  
   – guitar
• Bill Cooley – guitar
• Jerry Douglas
  Jerry Douglas (musician)
  Jerry Douglas is an American record producer and resonator guitar player. Called "Dobro's matchless contemporary master," by The New York Times, and lauded as "my favorite musician" by John Fogerty, Douglas is one of the world’s most renowned Dobro players.-Career:In addition to his twelve solo...
  
   – Dobro
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
• John Barlow Jarvis – piano
• Farrell Morris – percussion
• Duncan Mullins – bass
• Bernie Leadon
  Bernie Leadon
  Bernard Mathew "Bernie" Leadon, III is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of two pioneering and highly influential country rock bands, Dillard & Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers...
  
   – guitar
• Kathy Mattea – vocals
• Nashville String Machine
  Nashville String Machine
  Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians and has been credited on recordings as far back as 1974. The Nashville String Machine's composition varies from project to project. It has appeared as large as an orchestra, or as small as a duo.-Notable members:Being a...
  
   – strings
• Steve Nathan – piano
• Bobby Ogdin – organ
• Russ Pahl – drums, Dobro
• Don Potter
  Don Potter (musician)
  Don Potter is an American musician and producer in Nashville, Tennessee. A longstanding producer for Wynonna Judd, he has become known as "the man who created the Judds' sound".-Musical career:...
  
   – guitar
• Matt Rollings
  Matt Rollings
  Matt Rollings is an American composer, musician and record producer. He plays piano, organ, and keyboards.Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, he has worked with many artists, not all country...
  
   – piano
• Pete Wasner – piano
• Tim O'Brien
  Tim O'Brien (musician)
  Tim O'Brien is an American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to singing, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki and mandocello...
  
   – background vocals
• Donna McElroy – background vocals
• Christie Westmoreland – background vocals
• Gerry Gillespie – background vocals
• Vicki Hampton – background vocals
• Kathy Chiavola – background vocals
• Gary Burr
  Gary Burr
  Gary Burr, born in Meriden, Connecticut, is an American musician and songwriter and producer, mostly known for his stable of hits recorded by country music performers. Burr began his career as a member of the group Pure Prairie League from 1982 to 1985, taking over after Vince Gill departed the group...
  
  – background vocals
• Jonathan Yudkin – mandolin, violin

Production notes

• Mills Logan – engineer, assistant engineer
• Brent Maher – producer, engineer, mixing
• Jim McKell – engineer, assistant engineer, mixing
• Glenn Meadows – mastering

Chart performance

Chart (1992)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	41
U.S. Billboard 200	182