"Alibis" is a song written by
Randy Boudreaux
Ronald "Randy" Boudreaux is a producer and songwriter of country music.
Early life
Boudreaux grew up in ake Charles, LAand early in his career, performed in honky tonks all over Louisiana and the south. He learned songwriting from Harlan Howa ...
, and recorded by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lee Lawrence (born January 27, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Atlanta, Texas, and raised in Foreman, Arkansas, Lawrence began performing at age 15 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in ...
. It was released on February 11, 1993, as the lead single and title track from his album ''
Alibis''. The song became Lawrence's second number one country hit in 1993 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and on the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart.
Music video
The music video was directed by Marc Ball and premiered in early 1993. In the music video,
Mariner High School in
Cape Coral, Florida, was the school shot in the footage.
Chart performance
The song debuted at number 64 on the
Hot Country Singles
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sa ...
chart dated February 20, 1993. It charted for 20 weeks on that chart, and reached number one on the chart dated May 1, 1993, staying there for two weeks.
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
1993 singles
1993 songs
Tracy Lawrence songs
Songs written by Randy Boudreaux
Song recordings produced by James Stroud
Atlantic Records singles
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