Full Circle (Randy Travis album)

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Full Circle
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 13, 1996
StudioNightengale Studio, The Compound, The Tracking Room and Seventeen Grand Studio (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Country
Label Warner Records [1]
Producer Kyle Lehning [2]
Randy Travis chronology
This Is Me
(1994)
Full Circle
(1996)
You and You Alone
(1998)
Singles from Full Circle
  1. "Are We in Trouble Now"
    Released: June 10, 1996
  2. "Would I"
    Released: September 30, 1996

Full Circle is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Randy Travis. It was released on August 13, 1996 by Warner Records. [3] [4] His last album for Warner Bros. Records until 2008 (not counting his later country-gospel works for Word/Warner/Curb), the album produced four singles: "Are We in Trouble Now", "Would I", "Price to Pay", and a cover of Roger Miller's hit single "King of the Road"; the cover also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 film Traveller .

Contents

"Are We in Trouble Now" was written by Mark Knopfler. [5] Travis cowrote three of the album's songs. [6]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Entertainment Weekly A− [9]
Lincoln Journal Star Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [10]
Orlando Sentinel Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [11]
Windsor Star B+ [5]

The Lincoln Journal Star wrote that "when he's on, Travis' lonesome North Carolina baritone slurs and slides with smoothness and feeling that few can match." [10] USA Today thought that "Travis' aching baritone again sounds fresh as rain compared with the river of drivel pouring out of Nashville." [11]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Highway Junkie" Chris Knight, Annie Tate, Sam Tate3:57
2."Price to Pay" Craig Wiseman, Trey Bruce 3:46
3."Long on Lonely (Short on Pride)"Bucky Jones, Bob McDill, Dickey Lee 3:26
4."Would I"Mark Winchester2:23
5."Future Mister Me" Randy Travis, John Lindley3:05
6."Don't Take Your Love Away from Me" Verlon Thompson, Mark D. Sanders 2:53
7."Are We in Trouble Now" Mark Knopfler 3:40
8."If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another" Joe Stampley, Tony Stampley, Bobby Carmichael2:15
9."I Wish It Would Rain"Travis, Ron Avis3:15
10."King of the Road" Roger Miller 3:49
11."I Can Almost Hear Her Wings"Travis, Eddie Lee, Buck Moore4:21
12."Ants on a Log" Skip Ewing, Donny Kees 3:27

Personnel

Production

Chart performance

Chart (1996)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums9
U.S. Billboard 200 [12] 77
Canadian RPM Country Albums10

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