Tracy Lawrence

About the artist

Tracy Lee Lawrence is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called "Live At Libby's" where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music. Lawrence signed to Atlantic Records in 1991, Lawrence debuted that year with the album Sticks and Stones, which produced his first chart single and first Number One hit in its title track. 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 label, Rocky Comfort Records.
Lawrence has released nine studio albums, three compilations, a live album, and a Christmas album. His studio albums have accounted for more than forty singles on the Billboard country music charts. Of these, eight have reached number one: "Sticks and Stones", "Alibis", "Can't Break It to My Heart", "My Second Home", "If the Good Die Young", "Texas Tornado", "Time Marches On" and "Find Out Who Your Friends Are", with Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney.

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	Top songs	Album
1	Paint Me A Birmingham	Then And Now: The Hits Collection	3:47	1
2	Time Marches On	Then And Now: The Hits Collection	3:06	1
3	Somewhere Between the Moon and You	90's Country Love Songs	3:25	1
4	Find out Who Your Friends Are (feat. Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney & Brad Arnold)	For the Love	3:47	1
5	Alibis	Then And Now: The Hits Collection	3:05	1
6	Texas Tornado	Then And Now: The Hits Collection	3:31	1
7	Frozen in Time	Frozen in Time	2:43	1
8	Just Good Ol' Boys	America's Music: The Roots Of Country	2:46	1
9	I See It Now	Then And Now: The Hits Collection	3:36	1
10	If The World Had A Front Porch	Then And Now: The Hits Collection	3:04	1

Albums

Tracy Lawrence

The Rock is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. His first album of Christian music, it was released on June 9, 2009 on his own Rocky Comfort label. Lead-off single "Up to Him" debuted at number 57 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and reached 47 shortly after the album's release.
Country Weekly gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying that it "emphasizes at all turns the shared imperfections that we all strive to overcome in order to be good people".

Tracy Lawrence

For the Love is the ninth studio album by country music artist Tracy Lawrence, released on January 30, 2007 through his personal label Rocky Comfort Records. It debuted at #53 on the Billboard 200. Three singles were released from the album: "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and became Lawrence's first chart-topping song since "Time Marches On" in mid-1996. The album's second single, "Til I Was a Daddy Too", reached #32 on the same chart. "You Can't Hide Redneck" was released in October 2008 as the third single.

Tracy Lawrence

Strong is the eighth studio album by American country music singer Tracy Lawrence, released in 2004, his only album for the DreamWorks label. It produced three singles for him on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts: "Paint Me a Birmingham", "It's All How You Look at It" and "Sawdust on Her Halo". "Paint Me a Birmingham" was also recorded in 2003 by Ken Mellons on his album Sweet, from which it was released as a single shortly before Lawrence's rendition.

Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence is the seventh studio album by country music artist Tracy Lawrence, released in 2001, his only album for the Warner Bros. Records label. 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.

Tracy Lawrence

Lessons Learned is the sixth studio album released by country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was also his last album for Atlantic Records before the closure of Atlantic's Nashville division in 2000. This album produced three singles for Lawrence between 2000 and 2001: the title track, "Lonely", and "Unforgiven", which peaked at #3, #18, and #35, respectively, on the Billboard country singles charts. "Lessons Learned" was also Lawrence's first Top Ten country hit since "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" in 1997.

Tracy Lawrence

The Coast Is Clear is the fifth studio album released by country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It produced five singles: "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye", "Better Man, Better Off", "The Coast Is Clear", "One Step Ahead of the Storm" and "While You Sleep". Though the first two singles charted at #2 and #4 on the country chart, respectively, the title track was the first single of Lawrence's career to fall short of the Top Ten. "While You Sleep" missed the Top 40 entirely, and "One Step Ahead of the Storm" failed to chart at all. Lawrence did not release another studio album until Lessons Learned in 2000.

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