01. Sugar Coated Love – 3:56
02. You’ll Lose a Good Thing – 3:27
03. Sexy Ways – 2:40
04. Shake a Hand – 3:55
05. Good Lover – 4:04
06. Mean Mean Man – 2:31
07. Shake Your Hips – 5:00
08. Te Ni Nee Ni Nu – 3:08
09. Can’t Believe You Want To Leave – 2:50
10. You Can Have My Husband – 3:21
11. It’s Raining – 2:52
12. Rocket In My Pocket – 2:54
13. I Wonder Why – 3:28
14. Let’s Have a Party – 2:27
15. High Time We Went – 3:36

Lou Ann Barton - Producer, Vocals
Jon Blondell  - Bass
Mel Brown - Piano
Fran Christina - Vocals (Background)
Denny Freeman - Guitar
David Grissom - Guitar
Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff - Saxophone
Michael Kindred - Piano
Rocky Morales - Saxophone
David "Fathead" Newman - Sax (Tenor)
Derek O'Brien - Guitar, Mixing, Slide Guitar
George Rains - Drums
Paul Ray - Vocals (Background)
Tommy Shannon - Bass
Joe Sublett - Guitar, Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Jimmie Vaughan - Guitar
Kim Wilson - Harmonica, Vocals (Background)
Reese Wynans - Organ, Piano

Lou Ann Barton didn't have the best of luck in her early career. Incongruously signed to a major label for 1982's Old Enough, she delivered a fine debut that was utterly out of step with the times. Shunted to a tiny indie in her adopted hometown of Austin, she recorded 1986's oddly poppy Forbidden Tones, an album of John Hiatt and Beatles covers that recalled Marti Jones' albums from the same period; it was a fine record, but it was a complete stylistic aberration. Barton returned to her blues-rock roots for 1989's Read My Lips. Cutting out the synthesizers and pop gloss of Forbidden Tones for a more traditional sound and recording with longtime friends like the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Kim Wilson and Jimmie Vaughan, Barton delivers her strongest set of tunes. As always, the song selection is heavy on the covers, including a new, heart-wrenching version of Irma Thomas' "It's Raining" that beats the pants off the too-slick version she recorded on Old Enough. Barton also salutes her influences on solid covers of Barbara Lynn's "You'll Lose a Good Thing" and a rave-up rendition of Wanda Jackson's rockabilly anthem "Let's Have a Party," not to mention the tough-chick standby "You Can Have My Husband." Wisely free of attempts to update or modernize her timeless Texas-style blues-rock, Read My Lips is a rockin' good time. ---Stewart Mason, allmusic.com

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1. Someday 
2. He's Gotta Use His Head (To Turn Me On) 
3. I Feel Like Breaking up Somebody's Home 
4. Diving Duck 
5. Young and Dumb 
6. Rock & Roll 800 
7. Not Even Me - Lou Ann Barton, Christensen, P. 
8. Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu 
9. Shake a Hand 
10. I'll Change That Too 
11. Scratch My Back 
12. Natural Born Lover 
13. You Can Have My Husband           play
14. Oh Yeah 
15. I Wonder Why 
16. Sugar Coated Love 
17. Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu [2nd Version]     play

Lou Ann Barton - Vocals
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Guitar

Lou Ann has long been a leading exponent of the Texas blues genre. These tracks, recorded over 22 years ago, capture herunique style & all 17 are on CD for the first time. A young Stevie Ray Vaughan appears on the last nine listed. 1999 M.I.L. Multimedia release.

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1.	I'm Old Enough
2.	Brand New Lover           play
3.	It's Raining  
4.	It Ain't Right
5.	Finger Poppin' Time
6.	Stop These Teardrops
7.	Sudden Stop, The
8.	Doddle Song, The
9.	Maybe
10.	Every Night of the Week   play

Lou Ann Barton (vocals);
Greg Piccolo, Harvey Thompson (tenor); 
Ronnie Eades (baritone); 
Glenn Frey (guitar, background vocals); 
Jimmy Johnson, Duncan Cameron, Jimmie Vaughan (guitar); 
Al Garth (saxophone); 
Harrison Galloway (trumpet); 
Charlie Rouse (trombone); 
Muscle Shoals Horns (horns); 
Clayton Ivey, Barry Beckett (keyboards); 
David Hood (bass instrument); 
Roger Hawkins (drum); 
Tom Roady (percussion); 
Cindy Richardson, Eddie Struzick, Lenny LeBlanc (background vocals).

The debut album by Austin-based blues-rock singer Lou Ann Barton didn't sound like many major-label releases of 1982. Produced by Atlantic Records veteran Jerry Wexler (with, worryingly, some help from ex-Eagles schlockmeister Glenn Frey) and recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Old Enough is a solid piece of soulful Texas-style blues-rock. Barton reveals herself to be an exceptional singer, sassy and sly but with a welcome tendency toward restraint. (Many singers in this style try too hard to prove their soulfulness and end up sounding ridiculous.) She's also got a keen eye for songs, investing the old standard "Finger Poppin' Time" with enough relish to make it sound fresh and turning Marshall Crenshaw's rockabilly-tinged "Brand New Lover" into a full-on Wanda Jackson-style barnburner. There are a few missteps, like the too-slick-by-half radio-friendly ballad "It's Raining," but overall, Old Enough is an unpretentious, timeless-sounding set. It all but disappeared upon its 1982 release and remained out of print until the Austin blues label Antone reissued it on CD in 1997. ---Stewart Mason, allmusic.com

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