The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence

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The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedJuly 10, 2007
Recorded1991 - 2004
Genre Country
Length67:40
Label Rhino
Producer Various
Tracy Lawrence chronology
For the Love
(2007)
The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence
(2007)
All Wrapped Up in Christmas
(2007)
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The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence is a 2007 compilation album by country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It is his third greatest-hits album. This compilation comprises 21 of his top ten singles, arranged in chronological order, from his 1991 debut "Sticks and Stones" to 2003's "Paint Me a Birmingham". Of the songs on this album, only the 1994 single "Renegades, Rebels and Rogues" (from the soundtrack to the 1994 film Maverick ) was not previously included on one of Lawrence's studio releases. The album has sold 348,900 copies in the United States as of April 2017. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Sticks and Stones" (Roger Dillon, Elbert West) - 3:36
  2. "Today's Lonely Fool" (Kenny Beard, Stan Paul Davis) - 3:49
  3. "Runnin' Behind" (Mark D. Sanders, Ed Hill) - 2:53
  4. "Somebody Paints the Wall" (Tommy Smith, Charles Browder, Elroy Kahanek, Nelson Larkin) - 3:15
  5. "Alibis" (Randy Boudreaux) - 3:02
  6. "Can't Break It to My Heart" (Tracy Lawrence, Kirk Roth, Earl Clark, West) - 2:54
  7. "My Second Home" (Lawrence, Paul Nelson, Kenny Beard) - 2:45
  8. "If the Good Die Young" (Nelson, Craig Wiseman) - 2:27
  9. "Renegades, Rebels and Rogues" (Larry Boone, Nelson, Clark) - 2:37
  10. "I See It Now" (Boone, Nelson, Woody Lee) - 3:36
  11. "As Any Fool Can See" (Nelson, Beard) - 3:03
  12. "Texas Tornado" (Bobby Braddock) - 3:30
  13. "If the World Had a Front Porch" (Lawrence, Nelson, Beard) - 3:05
  14. "If You Loved Me" (Nelson, Tom Shapiro) - 3:21
  15. "Time Marches On" (Braddock) - 3:03
  16. "Stars over Texas" (Lawrence, Nelson, Beard) - 3:34
  17. "Is That a Tear" (Beard, John Jarrard) - 3:18
  18. "Better Man, Better Off" (Stan Paul Davis, Brett Jones) - 3:36
  19. "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" (Lawrence, Nelson, Boone) - 3:30
  20. "Lessons Learned" (Lawrence, Nelson, Boone) - 2:57
  21. "Paint Me a Birmingham" (Buck Moore, Gary Duffy) - 3:48

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200163
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums29

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References

  1. The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence at AllMusic
  2. Bjorke, Matt (April 18, 2017). "Top Country Catalog Album Sales Chart: April 18, 2017". Roughstock.