Why Can't You

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Why Can't You
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 3, 1996 (1996-09-03)
Genre Country
Label Columbia
Producer Emory Gordy Jr.
Larry Stewart chronology
Heart Like a Hurricane
(1994)
Why Can't You
(1996)
Learning to Breathe
(1999)

Why Can't You is the third studio album by the American country music singer Larry Stewart and his final album for Columbia Records. It was released in 1996. Singles released from the album were "Why Can't You" and "Always a Woman", which respectively reached #46 and #70 on the Billboard country singles charts.

Contents

Thom Owens gave the album three stars out of five in Allmusic, where he wrote that it "suffers from an uneven selection of material and production that plays it too close to the vest". [1]

Track listing

  1. "They Ain't Made Enough Road" (Wendell Mobley, Tom Shapiro) – 2:31
  2. "Always a Woman" (J. Fred Knobloch, Steve O'Brien) – 3:37
  3. "That's What One Night Can Do" (Michael Huffman, Donny Kees, Bob Morrison) – 3:37
  4. "There Goes the Neighborhood" (Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill, Pebe Sebert) – 2:35
  5. "I've Got My Hands Full" (Tony Martin, Brenda Sweat, Cal Sweat) – 3:40
  6. "Shake, Rattle and Rollin' in the Country" (Jamie O'Hara) – 3:01
  7. "Why Can't You" (Larry Stewart, R.C. Bannon) – 3:50
  8. "This Heart" (Stewart, Bannon) – 4:25
  9. "I'll Know When I Get There" (Angelo Petraglia, Robert Ellis Orrall, Curtis Wright) – 2:57
  10. "As Time Goes" (Tony Haselden, Tim Mensy) – 4:00

Personnel

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References

  1. Owens, Thom. "Why Can't You review". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 February 2010.