''Learning to Breathe'' is the fourth album by the American country music singer Larry Stewart. The final solo album of his career, it was released in 1999 on Windham Hill Records. "Still in Love", the only single, failed to chart. "Summer in the City" is a cover of a single originally recorded by The Lovin' Spoonful. After the album's release, Stewart rejoined Restless Heart in 2003, and has been a member since.

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rated the album three stars out of five in Allmusic, saying that he considered it to have a more adult contemporary radio-format sound than a country sound, but referring to Stewart's voice as "smooth ndrobust."

Track listing

#"Take This Heart" (Larry Stewart, John Bettis,

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) – 4:55 #"Anything Else but You" (Stewart,

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, Bruce Sudano) – 3:45 #"Learning to Breathe Again" (Omartian, Sudano) – 3:46 #"In My Dreams Tonight" (Stewart, Jill Colucci, Stewart Harris) – 4:08 #"Prodigal Daughter" (Stewart, Omartian) – 4:45 #"Still in Love" (Stewart, Tommy Lee James) – 3:57 #"Fantasy" (Stewart, Bannon) – 6:34 #"Gotta Tell Somebody" (Stewart, Phillip Moore) – 4:29 #"Compared to Goodbye" (Stewart, Moore) – 4:01 #*duet with Tabitha Fair #"Takin' My Time" (Stewart, Moore) – 5:07 #"A Reason to Believe" (Stewart,

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, Robert Hart) – 3:47 #" Summer in the City" (Mark Sebastian, Steve Boone) – 4:13 #*intro: " In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. *Mike Brignardello – bass guitar *Mark Douthit – saxophone *Tabitha Fair – background vocals *Billy Gaines – background vocals * Vince Gill – electric guitar *John Hammond –

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*Tom Hemby – electric guitar *B. James Lowry –

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* Michael McDonald – background vocals * Chris McHugh – drums *Jerry McPherson – electric guitar *Michael Mellett – background vocals *Gene Miller – background vocals *Michael Omartian – piano,

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, programming *Tiffany Palmer – background vocals * Chris Rodriguez – background vocals, electric guitar *Nicol Smith – background vocals * Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar *Micah Wilshire – background vocals

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performed by the Nashville String Machine, contracted by Carl Gorodetzky and arranged by Michael Omartian.

References

{{Authority control 1999 albums Albums produced by Michael Omartian Windham Hill Records albums Larry Stewart (singer) albums