The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence by Tracy Lawrence (CD, Jan-2007, Atlantic/Rhino)

Album Features
UPC:	603497990993
Artist:	Tracy Lawrence
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2007
Record Label:	Atlantic/Rhino
Genre:	Country, Honkytonk

Track Listing
1. Sticks and Stones
2. Today's Lonely Fool
3. Runnin' Behind
4. Somebody Paints the Wall
5. Alibis
6. Can't Break It to My Heart
7. My Second Home
8. If the Good Die Young
9. Renegades, Rebels and Rogues
10. I See It Now
11. As Any Fool Can See
12. Texas Tornado
13. If the World Had a Front Porch
14. If You Loved Me
15. Time Marches On
16. Stars Over Texas
17. Is That a Tear
18. Better Man, Better Off
19. How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye
20. Lessons Learned
21. Paint Me a Birmingham

Details
Playing Time:	68 min.
Producer:	Tracy Lawrence, James Stroud, Don Cook, Butch Carr, Flip Anderson
Distributor:	WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Joe Spivey (guitar, fiddle); Brent Mason (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut-string guitar); Brent Rowan (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin); Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar, harmonica); Rick Huckaby (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Larry Byrom, B. James Lowry, Biff Watson (acoustic guitar); Chris Leuzinger, Dann Huff (electric guitar); Paul Franklin , Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro); Dan Dugmore, Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Aubrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Rob Hajacos, Hank Singer (fiddle); Terry McMillan (harmonica, percussion); Gary E. Smith (piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Tony Harrell, Steve Nathan (piano, keyboards); Dennis Burnside, Flip Anderson (piano); James Stroud, Lonnie Wilson, Eddie Bayers (drums, percussion); Jack Gavin, Milton Sledge, Shannon Forrest (drums); Curtis Young, Deryl Dodd, Dennis Wilson Quintet, John Wesley Ryles, Liana Manis (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Butch Carr; Pat McMacon; Julian King; Lynn Peterzell; Mike Bradley.Audio Remasterers: Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot.Liner Note Author: Melinda Newman.Photographer: Matthew Barnes.Starting with 1991's STICKS AND STONES, Texan Tracy Lawrence has taken up the mantle of honky tonk for a new generation of country artists. As Nashville has moved further towards pop and rock influences, Lawrence's fierce traditionalism has caused him to be squeezed out of the picture a bit; Lawrence has been without a major label contract since 2004. Rhino's excellent THE VERY BEST OF TRACY LAWRENCE is a 21-track précis of that 13-year period, picking tracks from all of his Atlantic and Warner Brothers albums to paint a picture of Lawrence as the modern heir to the likes of Ray Price and Lefty Frizell: a honky-tonker who knows his way around a tear-stained ballad as well. The well-chosen selection contains all of Lawrence's biggest singles, including all seven of his number-one hits.