''Tracy Lawrence'' is the seventh studio album by American
country music artist
of the same name. It was released on October 23, 2001 by
Warner Records. Only two singles were released from this album: "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" and "What a Memory", the latter of which failed to make Top 40 on the country charts. "That Was Us" was later recorded by
Randy Travis
Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959), known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country music and gospel music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor.
Active from 1978 until being incapacitated by a stroke in 2013, he has recor ...
on his 2004 album ''
Passing Through''.
Track listing
Personnel
From Liner Notes
*
Alison Brown -
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
on "She Loved the Devil Out of Me" and "God's Green Earth"
*
Eric Darken
Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer.
Biography
Drawing inspiration from his grandfather, a band leader. Darken began playing drums at age 12, and played timpani and mallets in high school. Darken attended ...
- percussion
*Sonny Garrish -
steel guitar
A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...
,
Dobro
Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar.
The Dobro was originally ...
on "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" and "That Was Us", pedabro on "Crawlin' Again"
*
Owen Hale - drums
*
Aubrey Haynie
Aubrey Haynie (born March 27, 1974) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wr ...
- fiddle,
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
on "Whole Lot of Lettin' Go"
*Wes Hightower - background vocals
*
Tracy Lawrence - lead vocals
*B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
*Liana Manis - background vocals
*Gary Lunn - bass guitar
*
Brent Rowan - electric guitar, banjo on "I Won All the Battles"
*Gary Smith - keyboards
Chart performance
References
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2001 albums
Tracy Lawrence albums
Warner Records albums