Top 5/Bottom 5: Tracy Byrd

[Ten Pound Hammer]

TOP
1. Put Your Hand in Mine
2. Just Let Me Be in Love
3. Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman
4. Heaven in My Woman's Eyes
5. Don't Love Make a Diamond Shine
6. Holdin' Heaven
7. Walking to Jerusalem
8. Don't Take Her She's All I Got
9. Why Don't That Telephone Ring
10. 4 to 1 in Atlanta

NOT BAD, BUT OVERRATED
1. The Keeper of the Stars

BOTTOM
1. Watermelon Crawl (still a guilty pleasure though)
2. That's the Thing About a Memory
3. Someone to Give My Love To
4. I Wanna Feel That Way Again
5. Love Lessons

[tim]

Again another artist I was introduced to via CMT back in the day. My family and I took a trip to Idaho and Yellowstone in 1993 and I remember having to stop at a truckstop in Wyoming just to pick up his cassette tape so I could listen to "Holdin' Heaven" over and over again. Anyways great artist with some great 90's material.

Favorites:
1. Heaven In My Woman's Eyes
2. Holdin' Heaven
3. Love Lessons
4. Walking To Jerusalem
5. That's the Thing About A Memory
6. Put Your Hand In Mine
7. Drinkin' Bone
8. Someone To Give My Love To
9. Don't Take Her She's All I Got
10. Just Let Me Be In Love

Favorite Album Tracks:
Back In The Swing of Things
An Out of Control Raging Fire
Hat Trick
Edge of A Memory
No Ordinary Man
You Lied To Me
Wildfire (love this remake and I still put this on to listen to today)
How Much Does the World Weigh
Making Memories of Us (same song that Keith Urban did)
That's What Keeps Her Getting By (for anyone who grew up with a single mom this is a great song for you)

Least Favorites:
1. When Mama Ain't Happy
2. Watermelon Crawl (overplayed and he has better material)
3. The Keeper of the Stars (I appreciate the sentimental value, but I've never come around to liking this song in general)
4. Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman
5. Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo (overplayed and again not a go-to Tracy song for me)

[someguy]

Top

1. Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo
2. The Keeper Of The Stars
3. Walking To Jerusalem
4. Watermelon Crawl
5. Holdin' Heaven
6. Drinkin' Bone
7. Don't Take Her She's All I Got
8. Put Your Hand In Mine
9. Don't Love Make A Diamond Shine
10. Just Let Me Be In Love

Bottom:

1. When Mama Ain't Happy
2. Revenge Of A Middle Aged Woman
3. I'm From The Country (only because I think of this as the first of many "I'm countrier than you" songs; I actually didn't mind it at the time)

[Andy]

I love Byrd's voice and am generally a fan of his music, but I haven't listened to him much in recent years, and I don't recognize/remember most of his singles. I might have to back and listen to a few of his albums as a refresher course. Here's my best attempt at a list as of now:

Top Singles
1. Cheapest Motel
2. Take Me with You When You Go
3. Keeper of the Stars
4. Big Love
5. Just Let Me Be in Love
6. Ten Rounds with Joe Cuervo (would be higher if not so overplayed)
7. Drinkin' Bone (same)
8. Watermelon Crawl (guilty pleasure)

Bottom
The Truth About Men (this is one of the songs that's kinda funny the first couple of times you hear it, but then don't need to hear again anytime soon, if at all)
Don't Take Her She's All I Got (perfectly fine, but Paycheck's version is better)

[sabre14]

Dec 8, 2014 19:20:44 GMT -5 Andy said:

I love Byrd's voice and am generally a fan of his music, but I haven't listened to him much in recent years, and I don't recognize/remember most of his singles. I might have to back and listen to a few of his albums as a refresher course. Here's my best attempt at a list as of now:

Top Singles
1. Cheapest Motel

Very nice to see you put this song at #1. If this was a song Tracy released in his hay day, it would have been a top 5 smash.

[Andy]

Dec 8, 2014 19:36:54 GMT -5 sabre14 said:

Dec 8, 2014 19:20:44 GMT -5 Andy said:

I love Byrd's voice and am generally a fan of his music, but I haven't listened to him much in recent years, and I don't recognize/remember most of his singles. I might have to back and listen to a few of his albums as a refresher course. Here's my best attempt at a list as of now:

Top Singles
1. Cheapest Motel

Very nice to see you put this song at #1. If this was a song Tracy released in his hay day, it would have been a top 5 smash.

Thanks. It's been a while since I listened to it, but I seem to remember his Different Things album having several great cuts: the aforementioned "Cheapest Motel", the title track, "Before I Die", "A Cowboy and a Dancer", and probably a couple others I'm forgetting.