The Luckiest Man in the World

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The Luckiest Man in the World
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Studio album by
ReleasedUnreleased
Genre Country
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer Eric Silver
Neal McCoy chronology
24-7-365
(2000)
The Luckiest Man in the World
(Unreleased)
That's Life
(2006)

The Luckiest Man in the World is the ninth studio album recorded by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was scheduled to be released in January 2003 on Warner Bros. Records, but was never released. [1] The album's only single, which was the title track, peaked at #46 on the Billboard country charts in 2002. "Put Your Best Dress On" was later released by Steve Holy in 2004, whose version went to #26 on the same chart.

Contents

Although it was not released, Robert L. Doerschuk of Allmusic reviewed the album. He gave it four stars, saying that McCoy "fills this album with quality material and digs into it with some of his finest singing to date." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Sing" (Brett James, Angelo Petraglia) – 3:55
  2. "The Luckiest Man in the World" (Monty Powell, Eric Silver) – 3:48
  3. "All at the Same Time" (Jim Collins, D. Vincent Williams) – 3:44
  4. "Elvis at the Airport" (Leslie Satcher) – 2:50
  5. "Put Your Best Dress On" (Billy Austin, Dillon Dixon, Don Pfrimmer, Williams) – 3:08
  6. "Mine Is You" (James, Frank Rogers) – 3:22
  7. "Never Got to Say" (Dean Blocker, Noah Gordon, Phil O'Donnell) – 3:47
  8. "Honky Tonk Mona Lisa" (Marcus Hummon, Darrell Scott) – 3:13
  9. "Too Far Gone" (Robert Ellis Orrall, John Bettis, Michael Post) – 3:35
  10. "I'm Your Biggest Fan" (Anthony Smith, Bobby Terry, Chris Wallin) – 4:57

Personnel

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References

  1. "It's a Neal McCoy/Wayne Newton New Year". CMT.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2004. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
  2. Doerschuk, Robert L. "The Luckiest Man in the World review". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 February 2010.