The Definitive Collection

by Tracy Byrd

Overview

This is the fourth hits compilation devoted to the recordings of Tracy Byrd, but it is the first one to contain tracks from both his MCA/Universal and RCA/BNA Records affiliations, which gives it a leg up on MCA's Keepers: Greatest Hits and BNA's Greatest Hits (not to mention the Byrd entry in MCA's discount-priced 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection series). Thus, it spans Byrd's entire major-label career, which lasted from 1992 to 2004. And unlike those earlier sets, none of which contained more than 12 tracks, this one stretches out to 18 songs and nearly an hour. Even better, those 18 selections constitute all of Byrd's Top 20 country hits in chronological order, from the chart-topping "Holdin' Heaven" to "Drinkin' Bone," including his other number one hit, "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo." This foolproof track list and sequencing turns out to present an excellent representation of Byrd, a talented country singer operating in the same neo-traditionalist realm as George Strait who is equally at home with a sentimental ballad or a honky tonk singalong, with a taste for two-step and Western swing tunes. He isn't particularly original, which may be why the hits dried up after a decade, but this album provides a reasonable portrait of what the more traditional side of country music sounded like from the mid-'90s to the mid-2000s. It is also what it claims to be, the definitive collection of Tracy Byrd. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	03/13/2007
Label:	Mca Nashville
UPC:	0602517167063
Rank:	64991

Tracks

1. Holdin' Heaven
2. Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous
3. Watermelon Crawl
4. The First Step
5. The Keeper of the Stars
6. Walking to Jerusalem
7. Love Lessons
8. Heaven in My Woman's Eyes
9. Big Love
10. (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got
11. Don't Love Make a Diamond Shine
12. I'm from the Country
13. I Wanna Feel That Way Again
14. Put Your Hand in Mine
15. Just Let Me Be in Love
16. Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo
17. The Truth About Men
18. Drinkin' Bone

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Tracy Byrd   Primary Artist
Montgomery Gentry   Primary Artist
Blake Shelton   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background)
Andy Griggs   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Andy McKaie   Compilation Producer
Thom McHugh   Composer
Adam Starr   Product Manager
Tony Martin   Composer
Kerry Kurt Phillips   Composer
Craig Wiseman   Composer
Casey Beathard   Composer
Gary "U.S." Bonds   Composer
Doug Crider   Composer
Doug Schwartz   Digital Remastering
Dickey Lee   Composer
Sarah Majors   Composer
Verlon Thompson   Composer
Mark Nesler   Composer
Jerry Crutchfield   Producer
Karen Staley   Composer
Michael Heeney   Composer
Mike Dekle   Composer
Tom Shapiro   Composer
Ted Hewitt   Composer
Danny Bear Mayo   Composer
Monty Powell   Composer
Byron Hill   Composer
Buddy Brock   Composer
Danni Leigh   Composer
Zack Turner   Composer
Paul Overstreet   Composer
Bill Kenner   Composer
Sam Hogin   Composer
Jerry Kilgore   Composer
Marla Cannon   Composer
Rich Kienzle   Liner Notes
Marty Brown   Composer
Michael Clark   Composer
Michael Patrick Heeney   Composer
Michelle Leigh   Composer
Jeff Stevens   Composer
Tony Brown   Producer
Mike Fink   Design
Wayne Tester   Composer
Rory Lee   Composer
Marla Suzanne Cannon   Composer
Beth Stempel   Production Manager
Mark D. Sanders   Composer
Jimmy Wayne Barber   Composer
Sara Majors   Composer
Richard Young   Composer
Jerry Williams   Composer
Ryan Null   Photo Coordination
Timothy Jon Johnson   Composer
Tim Johnson   Composer
Doug Cirder   Composer
Danny Mayo   Composer
Steve Bogard   Composer
Skip Ewing   Composer
Dean Dixon   Photography
Stan Webb   Composer
Tracy Byrd   Producer