Tracy Lawrence (album)

Tracy Lawrence
Studio album by Tracy Lawrence
Released	October 23, 2001
Genre	Country
Length	40:38
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Tracy Lawrence, Flip Anderson
Tracy Lawrence chronology
Lessons Learned (2000) Tracy Lawrence (2001) Strong (2004)
Singles from Tracy Lawrence
"Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" Released: August 27, 2002 "What a Memory" Released: February 4, 2003

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Tracy Lawrence is the seventh studio album by American country music artist of the same name. It was released on October 23, 2001 as his final album for Atlantic Records, after this album's release, Lawrence was dropped from Atlantic Records, due to the closure of Atlantic's Nashville division. Only two singles were released from this album: "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" and "What a Memory", the latter of which failed to make Top 40 on the country charts. "That Was Us" was later recorded by Randy Travis on his 2004 album Passing Through.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Crawlin' Again"	Kenny Beard, Michael White	2:50
2.	"Life Don't Have to Be So Hard"	Casey Beathard, Kenny D. West	3:14
3.	"It's Got You All Over It"	J. B. Rudd, Jerry Salley, Lance Miller	2:59
4.	"Getting Back Up"	Marla Cannon-Goodman, Bobby Pinson	4:12
5.	"It's Hard to Be an Outlaw"	Paul Nelson, Larry Boone, Pinson	3:29
6.	"Meant to Be"	Tracy Lawrence, Flip Anderson, Rick Huckaby	3:21
7.	"That Was Us"	Craig Wiseman, Tony Lane	3:20
8.	"She Loved the Devil Out of Me"	Eric Clark, Lawrence, Huckaby	3:13
9.	"Whole Lot of Lettin' Go"	Nelson, Boone, Lawrence	3:13
10.	"What a Memory"	Beard, Jeff Bates	4:27
11.	"God's Green Earth"	Billy Yates, Monty Criswell	2:43
12.	"I Won All the Battles"	Nelson, Boone, Lawrence	3:37

Personnel

From Liner Notes^[2]

• Alison Brown - banjo on "She Loved the Devil Out of Me" and "God's Green Earth"
• Eric Darken - percussion
• Sonny Garrish - steel guitar, Dobro on "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" and "That Was Us", pedabro on "Crawlin' Again"
• Owen Hale - drums
• Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin on "Whole Lot of Lettin' Go"
• Wes Hightower - background vocals
• Tracy Lawrence - lead vocals
• B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
• Liana Manis - background vocals
• Gary Lunn - bass guitar
• Brent Rowan - electric guitar, banjo on "I Won All the Battles"
• Gary Smith - keyboards

Chart performance

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	13
U.S. Billboard 200	136

References

1. Allmusic - review
2. Tracy Lawrence (Media notes). Tracy Lawrence. Atlantic Records/Warner Bros. Records. 2001. 9 48187-2.