Bad Day for Trains

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Bad Day for Trains
PatriciaConroyBadDayForTrains.jpg
Studio album by
Released1992
Genre Country
Length31:43
Label Warner Music Canada
Producer Pat McMakin
Randall Prescott
Patricia Conroy chronology
Blue Angel
(1990)
Bad Day for Trains
(1992)
You Can't Resist
(1994)

Bad Day for Trains is the second studio album by Canadian country music singer-songwriter Patricia Conroy, and was released in 1992 by Warner Music Canada. The album was named Album of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association in 1993. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Bad Day for Trains" (Patricia Conroy, Ralph Murphy) – 3:44
  2. "My Baby Loves Me (Just the Way That I Am)" (Gretchen Peters) – 2:40
  3. "What Do You Care" (Bob Funk, Bruce Miller) – 4:01
  4. "Blank Pages" (Conroy) – 3:17
  5. "Still Life with a Heartache" (Sam Hogin, Peters) – 3:35
  6. "Talkin' to a Stranger" (Rodney Crowell, Keith Sykes) – 2:37
  7. "Keep Me from Blowin' Away" (Paul Craft) – 3:06
  8. "Johnny's Too Smart" (Conroy) – 3:18
  9. "Here We Go Again" (Jim Foster) – 2:34
  10. "Cat and Mouse" (Conroy) – 3:44

Chart performance

Chart (1992)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Country Albums20

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References

  1. "1993 CCMA Award Winners". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2007.