| Product Summary | | UPC: 00828766486124 | | Release Date: 2/8/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63941990 | | Item#: M22735 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Tracy Byrd (vocals, guitar); Joe Lee Carter (harmonica, background vocals); Joe Carter (harmonica); John Jarvis (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Glenn Worf, Mike Brignardello (bass guitar); Michael "Bear" Taliferro, Mike Taliaferro (background vocals); Billy Joe Walker, Jr. (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); B. James Lowry, Biff Watson (acoustic guitar); Pat Buchanan, Reggie Young , Steve Gibson, Adam Shoenfeld, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Kenny Sears, Aubrey Haynie (fiddle); Greg Morrow, Paul Leim (drums); Curtis Young, John Wesley Ryles, Neil Thrasher, Wes Hightower (background vocals). | | Audio Mixers: Kyle Lehning; Bob Bullock. | | Recording information: Emerald Entertainment; Our Place Studios. | | Photographer: Nigel Parry. | | The first two songs on Tracy Byrd's GREATEST HITS make clear what a wide variety of material the Beaumont, Texas native has successfully tackled. "The Truth About Men" (which also features Andy Griggs, Montgomery Gentry, and Blake Shelton) is a great example of Byrd's trademark party songs. Celebrating the less-than-dainty behavior that often characterizes the male gender, the tune is driven by a beat that tears a honky-tonk page straight from the Merle Haggard barroom book. "Just Let Me Be in Love," on the other hand, is a Latin-influenced number full of nylon-string flamenco-guitar leads and lush synthesizer lines. Although Byrd's vocal performance is stone-cold country, the end result here sounds more like SHANGO-era Santana than Marty Robbins or Freddy Fender. Luckily, Byrd's big, rich voice and classic phrasing tie the various stylistic detours together. | | In addition to several re-recorded versions of his biggest chart-toppers, the 2005 collection includes two previously unreleased tracks. "Johnny Cash" is an escapist fantasy in the vein of Johnny Paycheck's "Take This Job and Shove It," while "Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman" is a hilarious two-stepping romp that will definitely make male listeners think twice about doing their woman wrong. |
Producer: Tracy Byrd; Billy Joe Walker, Jr.; Billy Joe Walker, Jr.; Tracy Byrd |
Engineer: Steve Tillisch; Tony Castle; Casey Wood |
| | Artist Overview | | Hat act Tracy Byrd is one of the bigger stars of the second wave of country music's new traditionalists. His perfect balance of good-old-boy hell-raising anthems and tender ballads has endeared him to a generous swath of the genre's listening audience. The Beaumont, Texas, native has been a consistent chart presence since arriving in the early 1990s; however, in 2006 Byrd jumped from RCA to an independent label for his ninth studio album, DIFFERENT THINGS. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/08/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 64861 | | Label : BNA | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00828766486124 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  4 | | Performance | 4 | | Composition | 4 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4 |
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4 of 5 Some hits, some re-recordings Tuesday, February 08, 2005
redtunictroll from Earth, USA
Byrd’s introduction in the early ‘90s allowed him to ride the wave of modern country music ushered in by Garth Brooks, Clint Black and others. His initial hits were gathered on a pair of anthologies (1999’s “Keepers: Greatest Hits” and 2001’s “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection”), leaving this new collection to summarize his more recent work. Apparently he hasn’t had enough hits to fill a second volume, as he’s taken to re-recording three of his earlier works (“Watermelon Crawl” “Keeper of the Stars” and “I’m From the Country”) for inclusion here. Together with two new tracks (“Johnny Cash” and “Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman”), that leaves only seven hits to be anthologized from recent albums.
That bit of bookkeeping out of the way, the hits are pulled from 2001’s “Ten Rounds” (“Just Let Me Be in Love,” “Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo,” “A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side” “Tiny Town”) and 2003’s “The Truth About Men” (“Drinkin’ Bone,” “Tiny Town,” and “The Truth About Men”), and show Byrd to be a new-era country singer with a charismatic delivery. He excels on up-tempo good-time tunes that display a fine sense of humor, “Drinkin’ Bone” and “Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo” sounding more Jimmy Buffet lite than tear-in-your-beer honky-tonk, and ballads like “Tiny Town” more heart-warming rather than heart-wrenching.
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