Soft Talk is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynne is an American singer, songwriter and actress. The success of the 1999 album I Am Shelby Lynne led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, even though she had been active in the music industry for some time...

. It was released in 1991 on the Epic

Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...

 label. Two tracks on the album, "The Very First Lasting Love" and "Stop Me" were performed with Les Taylor

Les Taylor (singer)

Les Taylor is an American country music artist. Taylor has released two studio albums on Epic Records. His highest charting single, "I Gotta Mind to Go Crazy," peaked at #44 in 1991....

. The album reached No. 55 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Country Albums chart. Allmusic's Bil Carpenter gave Soft Talk a star rating of three out of five and described it as "defiant, emotionally draining country."

Track listing

• "Don't Cross Your Heart" (Tony Haselden, Tim Mensy
  Tim Mensy
  Timmie Menzies is an American country music artist known as Tim Mensy. Initially, he was a member of the band Bandana, in which he charted several singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in the 1980s...
  
  ) — 2:55
• "I've Learned to Live" (Dean Dillon
  Dean Dillon
  Dean Dillon is an American country music artist. Between 1982 and 1993, Dillon recorded six studio albums on various labels, and charted several singles on the Billboard country charts. Although he has not charted since 1993, Dillon has continued to write several hit songs for other artists, most...
  
  , Frank Dycus) — 3:52
• "Alive and Well" (Michael Garvin, Bucky Jones) — 3:21
• "A Lighter Shade of Blue" (Max D. Barnes
  Max D. Barnes
  Max D. Barnes was a country music singer and songwriter.As a songwriter, Barnes composed many familiar songs of the '80s and '90s, receiving 42 songwriter awards in his career...
  
  , Skip Ewing
  Skip Ewing
  Donald Ralph "Skip" Ewing is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since 1988, Ewing has recorded nine studio albums, and has charted fifteen singles on the Billboard country charts.-Career:...
  
  , Troy Seals
  Troy Seals
  Troy Seals is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals...
  
  ) — 3:47
• "It Must Be You" (Hugh Prestwood
  Hugh Prestwood
  Hugh Prestwood is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in country music. His first hit as a songwriter was "Hard Time for Lovers", which was recorded in 1978 by Judy Collins. Prestwood also wrote "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart", a Number One for Randy Travis in 1990, and a song for...
  
  ) — 3:07
• "You Can't Break a Broken Heart" (Chuck Jones, Chris Waters
  Chris Waters
  Christopher Waters Dunn is an American country music singer and songwriter, known professionally as Chris Waters. The brother of singer Holly Dunn, Waters has co-written singles for other artists, including Number Ones for Tim McGraw and Cyndi Thomson.-Biography:Christopher Waters Dunn was born in...
  
  ) — 3:14
• "Soft Talk" (Seals, Eddie Setser) — 3:39
• "The Very First Lasting Love" (Paul Hollowell, Les Taylor, Lonnie Wilson) — 3:34
• "Stop Me" (Jim Lauderdale
  Jim Lauderdale
  Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...
  
  , John Leventhal
  John Leventhal
  John Leventhal is a Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright, The Wreckers and many others...
  
  ) — 3:43
• "It Might Be Me" (Jones, J. D. Martin) — 4:22

Personnel

Music

• Sonny Garrish — dobro
  Dobro
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  , steel guitar
• Steve Gibson — electric guitar
• Chuck Jones — acoustic guitar
• Mike Lawler — organ, synthesizer
• Paul Leim — drums
• Shelby Lynne — vocals
• Brent Mason
  Brent Mason
  Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...
  
   — acoustic guitar
• Mickey Raphael
  Mickey Raphael
  Michael Siegfried "Mickey" Raphael is a professional harmonica player, best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Mötley Crüe, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Chesney, U2 and Neil Young.Raphael's style is mostly second...
  
   — harmonica
• Gary W. Smith — piano, keyboards
• Les Taylor
  Les Taylor (singer)
  Les Taylor is an American country music artist. Taylor has released two studio albums on Epic Records. His highest charting single, "I Gotta Mind to Go Crazy," peaked at #44 in 1991....
  
   — performer
• Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf
  Glenn Worf is one of the premier Nashville session bassists. He was born in Dayton, Ohio but grew up in Madison, Wisconsin and has concentrated on the bass guitar since he was thirteen. He majored in music at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Inevitably his talents forced him to abandon the...
  
   — bass

Production

• Milan Bogdan — digital editing
• Rodney Good — assistant engineer
• Julian King — assistant engineer
• John Kunz — mixing assistant
• Glenn Meadows — mastering
• Lynn Peterzell
  Lynn Peterzell
  Lynn Meyer Peterzell was a country music audio engineer from Nashville, Tennessee.Lynn Peterzell was raised in Pascagoula, Mississippi by Frances and Milton Peterzell. He was the third of five children....
  
   — engineer, mixing

Design

• Bill Johnson — art direction
• Ron Keith — photography
• Rollow Welch — design

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	55