''David Ball'' is the debut album from 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 David Ball. He recorded the album in 1989 for

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. Three singles from it charted between 1988 and 1989: "Steppin' Out", "You Go, You're Gone" and "Gift of Love", which respectively reached numbers 46, 55, and 64 on the ''

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'' country charts. Despite these three singles, however, the album was not released by RCA until late 1994, by which point Ball had been signed to

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for the release of his breakthrough album '' Thinkin' Problem''. The album was originally titled "Steppin' Out" on its original release schedule in 1989. The track "I Was Born with a Broken Heart" was previously a number 75 single in 1989 for Josh Logan from his album ''Somebody Paints the Wall'', and would later be a number 38 single for

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from his 1992 album '' Read Between the Lines''. In addition, Ball re-recorded "Texas Echo" for his 2001 album ''

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''.

Track listing

#"Gift of Love" (David Ball, Frank Dycus) – 3:23 #"If She Were Mine" (

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, Pamela Brown Hayes) – 3:48 #"Message in a Bottle" (Ball, Walter Hyatt) – 4:00 #"All Over Me" (Tracy Parker, Jimmy Wooten) – 3:28 #"Listen to My Heart" (Ball,

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) – 3:01 #"No More Tears" (Buddy Blackman, Vip Vipperman, Ted Hewitt) – 3:17 #"Texas Echo" (Ball) – 3:13 #"Waitin' for Somebody New" (

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, Roger Brown) – 3:05 #"We're Steppin' Out Tonight" (Billy Wallace) – 2:40 #" I Was Born with a Broken Heart" (Jim McBride,

) – 3:05 #"Smokin' Cigarettes and Drinkin' Coffee Blues" (

Marty Robbins Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, and NASCAR racing driver. Robbins was one of the most popular and succ ...

) – 3:03

References

*Allmusic (see infobox) {{Authority control 1989 albums 1989 debut albums David Ball (country singer) albums RCA Records albums