''Missing Years'' is the fifth studio album by the 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, ...

band Little Texas. Released in 2007 on

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, it is the band's first studio album for that label, and its first new studio album since 1997's '' Little Texas''. It is also the first studio album not to feature former co-lead vocalists

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and

Tim Rushlow Timothy Ray Rushlow (born October 6, 1966) is an American recording artist. Between 1991 and 1997, Rushlow was lead vocalist of country music group Little Texas, which recorded four albums and a Greatest Hits package, in addition to charting ...

. Here,

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

ist Porter Howell serves as lead vocalist, and the other three remaining members (

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Del Gray,

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ist Dwayne O'Brien, and

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ist Duane Propes) are retained. Overall, this album produced three singles in "Your Woman", the title track, and "Party Life". While neither "Your Woman" nor "Party Life" charted, "Missing Years" reached number 45 on the

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charts in 2007, giving the band its first chart single in ten years.

Track listing

#"Gotta Get Me Down Home" (Quinn Loggins) - 3:03 #"Missing Years" (Del Gray, Porter Howell, Dwayne O'Brien) - 4:12 #"Rebel" (Gray, Howell,

Templeton Thompson Templeton Thompson is a country music singer-songwriter. Her songs have been recorded by performers such as Reba McEntire, Jo Dee Messina, Little Texas, and Sherrié Austin. Early life and education She was raised on near Glen Rose, Texas, o ...

) - 3:46 #"Knees" (

Marc Beeson Marc Beeson (born December 20, 1954 in Champaign, Illinois) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Beeson has co-written several singles which have reached the Hot Country Songs charts. Life and career Beeson moved to Nashville, Te ...

, Don Pfrimmer) - 3:48 #"A Reason" (Gray, Howell) - 4:16 #"Party Life" (Gray, Howell, O'Brien) - 2:55 #"Texas 101" (Howell, Johnny Slate,

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) - 4:00 #"So Long" (Anthony Smith,

Liz Hengber Liz Hengber (born August 22, 1959) is an American songwriter and musician based in Nashville, Tennessee. Hengber was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from New Milford High School in New Milford, New Jersey in 1977. She graduated from th ...

, James Dean Hicks) - 4:18 #"When He's Gone" (Gray, Howell, O'Brien) - 4:04 #"You Ain't Seen Me Lately" (Gray, Howell, O'Brien) - 3:46 #"Your Blues" (

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Brett James Brett James Cornelius (born June 5, 1968) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer based in Nashville. James' compositions have been credited on 494 recordings by a wide variety of artists. Signed to Career Records ( ...

) - 3:38 #"Your Woman" (Jon McElroy, Del Gray) - 3:49

Personnel

Little Texas

*Del Gray –

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*Porter Howell –

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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

*Dwayne O'Brien –

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background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used ...

*Duane Propes –

, background vocals

Additional musicians

*Eric Darken – box,

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Dan Dugmore Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing the pedal steel guitar Born in 1949, Dugmore was raised in Pasadena, California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers, he learned to play steel guitar after Flying B ...

– acoustic guitar, electric guitar,

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*Russ Pahl – acoustic guitar, steel guitar

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by the

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, arranged by Kris Wilkinson. {{Authority control 2007 albums Little Texas (band) albums Montage Music Group albums