What Livin's All About

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What Livin's All About
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 13, 1998 (1998-01-13)
Recorded1997
Genre Country
Label MCA Nashville
Producer James Stroud
Rhett Akins chronology
Somebody New

(1996)
What Livin's All About
(1998)
Friday Night in Dixie
(2002)
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What Livin's All About is the third studio album by American country music artist Rhett Akins. It was released in 1998 on MCA Nashville. The album accounted for two singles: "More Than Everything" and "Better Than It Used to Be", which respectively reached #41 and #47 on the Billboard country singles charts. It was also his only release for MCA. The track "I'll Be Right Here Lovin' You" was later released as a single by Randy Travis from his 1999 album A Man Ain't Made of Stone .

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Better Than It Used to Be"3:10
2."Happy as We Wanna Be"
2:45
3."More Than Everything"3:13
4."I'll Be Right Here Lovin' You"
3:00
5."Not in the Cards"3:31
6."What Livin's All About"
  • Taylor Dunn
  • Danny Orton
3:22
7."She's Got Everything Money Can't Buy"
3:22
8."Ain't That Just Like a Woman"
3:15
9."Dream the Rest"
  • Criswell
  • Brenda Sweat
3:39
10."Love Rules"
  • Nichols
  • Will Robinson
3:28
11."I'm Finding Out"
  • Thom McHugh
  • J.B. Rudd
3:01
12."The Rest of Forever"4:46

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1998)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums33
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers20

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