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Any Time
Studio album by Leon Redbone
Released	2001
Label	Blue Thumb
Producers	Beryl Handler, Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone chronology
Whistling in the Wind (1994) Any Time (2001) Live – October 26, 1992: The Olympia Theater, Paris, France (2005)

Any Time is an album by the musician Leon Redbone, released in 2001.^[1][2] It was his first album in seven years.^[3] Redbone supported the album with North American and European tours.^[4][5]

Redbone recorded the songs over a long period of time, until he had enough to fill an album.^[6] Frank Vignola played guitar on the album.^[7] "Sweet Substitute" and "If You Knew" are versions of the Jelly Roll Morton songs.^[8] "Your Feets Too Big" is a version of the song made famous by Fats Waller; it was originally for Harry and the Hendersons.^[8][9] The Persuasions sang on the version of "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree".^[10]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[11]
Birmingham Post	[12]
Edmonton Journal	[13]
Los Angeles Daily News	[14]
The Press of Atlantic City	[15]
The Tampa Tribune	[8]

The Los Angeles Daily News wrote that "the small-band jazz arrangements may be of a certain period, but Redbone's world-weary emotionalism will strike a chord with anyone who fancies themselves a prisoner of love."^[14] The Edmonton Journal said that "liberal doses of clarinet, belching tubas, ragtime piano fills, and bright yet brittle guitar licks provide the foundation for tunes."^[13] The Birmingham Post determined that Redbone "knows his musical history and brings just the right amount of dedication to his performance, coupled with that tip of tongue in cheek."^[12]

The Washington Post noted that, "to hear Bob Gordon's clarinet skipping around Redbone's sleepy croon on Morton's 'If You Knew' is to understand how happily jazz and pop cohabited for a brief period."^[16] The Tampa Tribune concluded that Redbone "coddles each song as if he were inspecting antique miniatures and marveling at their intricacies."^[8]

AllMusic wrote that "the crooner takes listeners back to a time when Herbert Hoover or Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House, and he maintains a relaxed, congenial, laid-back ambience on vintage tunes."^[11]