I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection

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I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedApril 5, 2011
Recorded1984-2010
Genre Country
Length50:32
Label Curb
The Judds chronology
Greatest Hits: Limited Edition
(2008)
I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection
(2011)
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I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection is a greatest hits collection by American country music duo The Judds. The album was released on April 5, 2011, via Curb Records, and includes twelve of The Judds' singles and two newly recorded songs. [2] The album's first single, "I Will Stand by You", was released to country radio in late 2010.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Mama He's Crazy" (Kenny O'Dell) - 3:14
  2. "Why Not Me" (Harlan Howard, Sonny Throckmorton, Brent Maher) - 3:31
  3. "Girls' Night Out" (Maher, Jeff H. Bullock) - 2:54
  4. "Love Is Alive" (Kent Robbins) - 4:01
  5. "Have Mercy" (Paul Kennerley) - 3:22
  6. "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)" (Jamie O'Hara) - 4:15
  7. "Rockin' with the Rhythm of the Rain" (Maher, Don Schlitz) - 2:41
  8. "I Know Where I'm Going" (Don Schlitz, Craig Bickhardt, Maher) - 3:39
  9. "Turn It Loose" (Schlitz, Bickhardt, Maher) - 3:44
  10. "Young Love (Strong Love)" (Kennerley, Robbins) - 4:23
  11. "Love Can Build a Bridge" (Paul Overstreet, Naomi Judd, John Barlow Jarvis) - 5:24
  12. "Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)" (Chuck Cannon, Austin Cunningham, Allen Shamblin) – 4:30
  13. "I Will Stand by You" (Steven Lee Olsen, Robert Ellis Orrall) – 3:46
  14. "Back Home" – 3:48 (Darrell Scott, Bruce Robison)

Personnel on new tracks

The Judds
Additional musicians

Chart performance

Chart (2011)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums34

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References

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