Ask Me What I Am
{{Short description|Album by Burt Reynolds}}
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| name = Ask Me What I Am
| type = studio
| artist = Burt Reynolds
| cover = AskMe BurtReynolds.jpg
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| released = November 5, 1973
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| genre = Easy listening, country
| length = 33:07
| producer = Bobby Goldsboro and Buddy Killen
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| misc = {{Singles
| name = Ask Me What I Am
| type = studio
| single1 = A Room for a Boy Never Used
| single1date = November 19, 1973
| single2 = She's Taken a Gentle Lover
| single2date = February 1974
}}
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Ask Me What I Am is a 1973 album by actor Burt Reynolds. His only album, it was produced by Bobby Goldsboro and Buddy Killen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Burt-Reynolds-Ask-Me-What-I-Am/release/1620505|title = Burt Reynolds – Ask Me What I Am (1973, Vinyl)|website = Discogs}} The album was released on the Mercury/Phonogram label.
{{Album ratings
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = E+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|accessdate=March 10, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
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Track listing
- "Childhood 1949" — 3:12 (Bobby Goldsboro)
- "Slow John Fairburn" — 4:00 (Red Lane)
- "The First One That I Lay With" — 2:41 (Red Lane, Tom McKeon)
- "Till I Get It Right" — 2:20 (Larry Henley, Red Lane)
- "She's Taken A Gentle Lover" — 3:50
- "You Can't Always Sing a Happy Song" — 2:38
- "Ask Me What I Am" — 2:50 (Glenn Yarbrough)
- "A Room for a Boy Never Used" — 3:22
- "I Didn't Shake the World Today" — 2:53
- "There's a Slight Misunderstanding Between God and Man" — 3:10
- "I Like Having You Around" — 2:10 (Red Lane)
Performers
- Burt Reynolds – lead vocals
- Buzz Cason, Carol Montgomery, Ginger Holladay - Backing Vocals
- Joe Allen, Mike Leech – Bass
- Larrie London – Drums
- Bobby Goldsboro, Johnny Christopher, Reggie Young – Guitar
- Timmy Tappan – Harpsichord
- Bobby Emmons – Organ
- Bobby Wood – Piano
- Brenton Banks, Byron Bach, Gary Van Osdale, George Brinkley III, Harry Lantz, Jim Stephany, Martha McCrory, Marvin Chantry, Samuel Terranova, Sheldon Kurland, Solie Isaac Fott, Stephanie Woolf, Steven Smith – Strings