That's Life (Neal McCoy album)

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That's Life
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ReleasedAugust 23, 2005 (2005-08-23)
Genre Country
Label 903 Music
Producer Eric Silver
Neal McCoy chronology
24-7-365
(2000)
That's Life
(2005)
XII
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic ? [1]
Country Standard Time (mixed) [2]

That's Life is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was released on August 23, 2005 on his own 903 Music label. Three singles were released from this album: "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", the first of these three, reached #10 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2005, becoming McCoy's first Top Ten hit since "The Shake" in 1997. "The Last of a Dying Breed" peaked at #35, while "Tail on the Tailgate" failed to chart. Also included here is a live rendition of "Hillbilly Rap", the original version of which was an album cut from his 1996 self-titled album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Got Mud" (Monty Criswell, Jerrod Niemann) – 2:51
  2. "Intro (General Tommy Franks)" – 0:45
    • spoken-word intro to "The Last of a Dying Breed", recited by Tommy Franks
  3. "The Last of a Dying Breed" (Tommy Connors, Don Rollins, D. Vincent Williams) – 3:02
  4. "That's Life" (Eric Silver, Matt Rollings) – 4:10
  5. "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" (Philip White, Michael Mobley) – 3:38
  6. "That's a Picture" (Bryan Simpson, Wade Kirby, Ashley Gorley) – 3:04
  7. "You Let Me Be the Hero" (Silver, Rodney Clawson) – 3:46
  8. "Tail on the Tailgate" (Brian Gene White, Tania Hancheroff, Clawson) – 4:00
  9. "Tails I Lose" (Silver, Neal McCoy) – 3:46
  10. "Jessie" (Jeremy Campbell, McCoy, Donny Hackett) – 3:52
  11. "You're My Jamaica" (Kent Robbins) – 3:45
  12. "Head South" (Darrell Scott) – 2:40
  13. "Hillbilly Rap (Live)" (Lord Burgess, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, William Attawar, Paul Henning) – 6:31

A special CD-ROM track of "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" is also available on some presses of the album.

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2005)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums8
U.S. Billboard 20032
U.S. Billboard Independent Albums3

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