Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged

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Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged
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Live album by Tracy Lawrence
ReleasedSeptember 19, 1995
Recorded1995
Genre Country
Length38:13
Label Atlantic
Producer Flip Anderson
James Stroud
Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence chronology
I See It Now
(1994)
Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged
(1995)
Time Marches On
(1996)

Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged is an album released in 1995 by American country music singer Tracy Lawrence. His first live compilation, it features various live recordings of the hit singles from his first three studio albums (1991's Sticks and Stones , 1993's Alibis and 1994's I See It Now ). Of the ten songs included here, all but "I Threw the Rest Away" were hugely successful singles for Lawrence.

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Tracy Lawrence American musician

Tracy Lee Lawrence is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Lawrence signed to Atlantic Records in 1991, and debuted that year with the album Sticks and Stones. Five more studio albums, as well as a live album and a compilation album, followed throughout the 1990s and into 2000 on Atlantic before the label's country division was closed in 2001. Afterward, he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, DreamWorks Records, Mercury Records Nashville, and his own labels, Rocky Comfort Records and Lawrence Music Group.

<i>Sticks and Stones</i> (Tracy Lawrence album) 1991 studio album by Tracy Lawrence

Sticks and Stones is the debut studio album of American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. Released in 1991 on Atlantic Records, it produced four singles: the title track, "Today's Lonely Fool", "Runnin' Behind", and "Somebody Paints the Wall", which peaked at #1, #3, #4, and #8, respectively, on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts between 1991 and 1993.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Renegades, Rebels, and Rogues" (Larry Boone, Paul Nelson, Earl Clark) - 2:57
  2. "Runnin' Behind" (Mark D. Sanders, Ed Hill) - 3:40
  3. "Somebody Paints the Wall" (Tommy Smith, Charles Browder, Elroy Kahanek, Nelson Larkin) - 3:20
  4. "I See It Now" (Boone, P. Nelson, Woody Lee) - 3:35
  5. "Today's Lonely Fool" (Kenny Beard, Stan Paul Davis) - 4:05
  6. "I Threw the Rest Away" (Gene Nelson, P. Nelson) - 3:59
  7. "Sticks and Stones" (Roger Dillon, Elbert West) - 3:40
  8. "Alibis" (Randy Boudreaux) - 3:31
  9. "Can't Break It to My Heart" (Tracy Lawrence, Kirk Roth, Clark, West) - 5:17
  10. "If the Good Die Young" (P. Nelson, Craig Wiseman) - 4:09

Personnel

Members of Tracy Lawrence's band "Little Elvis"

Acoustic guitar type of guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Steel guitar type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii by Joseph Kekuku in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use of a bar or slide called a steel. The earliest use of an electrified steel guitar was first made in the early 1930s by Bob Dunn of Milton Brown and His Brownies, a western swing band from Fort Worth, Texas; the instrument was perfected in the mid to late 1930s by Fort Worth's Leon McAuliffe, who played for western swing band Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Nashville later picked up the use of the steel guitar in the early days of the late 1940s and early 1950s "Honky Tonk" country & western music with a number of fine steel guitarists backing names like Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell and Webb Pierce. The term steel guitar is often mistakenly used to describe any metal body resophonic guitar.

Additional musicians

Chart performance

Chart (1995)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums24
U.S. Billboard 200151
Canadian RPM Country Albums10

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