Practice Life

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"Practice Life"
Single by Andy Griggs with Martina McBride
from the album Freedom
ReleasedSeptember 21, 2002
Genre Country
Length4:13
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Andy Griggs, Brett James
Producer(s) David Malloy
Andy Griggs singles chronology
"Tonight I Wanna Be Your Man"
(2002)
"Practice Life"
(2002)
"She Thinks She Needs Me"
(2004)
Martina McBride singles chronology
"Where Would You Be"
(2002)
"Practice Life"
(2002)
"Concrete Angel"
(2002)

"Practice Life" is a song recorded by American country music artists Andy Griggs and Martina McBride. It was released in September 2002 as the third and final single from the album Freedom . The song reached #33 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] The song was written by Griggs and Brett James.

Chart performance

Chart (2002)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 33

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 139.
  2. "Andy Griggs Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.