It's About Time (Tracy Byrd album)

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It's About Time
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 2, 1999 (1999-11-02)
Recorded1999
Genre Country
Length40:50
Label RCA Nashville
Producer Tracy Byrd
Billy Joe Walker, Jr.
Tracy Byrd chronology
Keepers: Greatest Hits
(1999)
It's About Time
(1999)
Ten Rounds
(2001)
Singles from It's About Time
  1. "Put Your Hand in Mine"
    Released: September 13, 1999
  2. "Love, You Ain't Seen the Last of Me"
    Released: April 1, 2000
  3. "Take Me with You When You Go"
    Released: 2000
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It's About Time is the sixth studio album, and seventh album overall, to be released by American country music artist Tracy Byrd. It was his first album to be released on RCA Nashville after leaving MCA Nashville, his previous label, in 1999. The album produced the singles "Put Your Hand in Mine" (co-written by Jimmy Wayne), "Love, You Ain't Seen the Last of Me", and "Take Me with You When You Go". "Undo the Right" was originally recorded by Willie Nelson on his 1962 album And Then I Wrote.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Put Your Hand in Mine" (Skip Ewing, Jimmy Wayne Barber) – 4:32
  2. "It's About Time" (Curtis Wright, Jim Collins) – 4:00
  3. "Can't Have One Without the Other" (Shawn Camp, Gary Scruggs) – 3:28
  4. "Take Me with You When You Go" (Jennifer Hanson, Mark Nesler) – 3:18
  5. "Every Time I Do" (Camp, Taylor Dunn) – 3:40
  6. "Love, You Ain't Seen the Last of Me" (Kendal Franceschi) – 3:31
  7. "Ain't It Just Like a Woman" (Jeffrey Steele, Al Anderson) – 3:22
  8. "Undo the Right" (Willie Nelson, Hank Cochran) – 3:00
  9. "Proud of Me" (Nesler, Tony Martin) – 3:51
  10. "A Little Love" (Pat Terry, Tia Sillers) – 3:34
  11. "Something to Brag About" (Steele, Anderson) – 4:28

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [2]

Chart performance

Chart (1999)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums20
U.S. Billboard 200174

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References

  1. Allmusic - review
  2. It's About Time (CD). Tracy Byrd. RCA Records. 1999. 07863-67881-2.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)