Loving You is a collaborative studio album by American singer-songwriter Amanda Shires and pianist Bobbie Nelson. The album was recorded in Austin, Texas at Arlyn Studios and released June 23, 2023 on the ATO Records label. Loving You features Nelson playing piano on ten songs with Shires' accompaniment on fiddle and vocals. Produced by Lawrence Rothman and Shires, it was recorded in 2021 shortly before Nelson's death in March 2022.
In her liner notes for Loving You, Shires writes that "Loving You", the instrumental title track, was "the only song Bobbie Nelson ever wrote on her own". Shires later told Texas Monthly that Nelson's career, which was similar to Shires' early work as a touring fiddle player in the Texas Playboys, inspired her own. Beginning in 1973, Nelson played piano in The Family with her brother Willie Nelson for forty-eight years.
During recording for her 2022 album Take It Like a Man, Shires worked on a cover version of "Always on My Mind", thinking it fit well with the other planned songs she had written. Upon hearing an early attempt, she decided to tell producer Lawrence Rothman she wanted Bobbie Nelson to play with her on "Always on My Mind". Once they worked on the song, the two women decided to save it for a project they would record together, which became Loving You.
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