Artist: Tracy Lawrence Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Discography:
For the Love Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Strong Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
The Best of Tracy Lawrence Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Time Marches On Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Sound Choice Year:
Tracks: 8
Part of the commercial-grade move up of rock-tinged honky tonk in the early '90s, Tracy Lawrence was one of the decade's most honest country hitmakers. Born in Atlanta, TX, in 1968, he grew up mostly in Foreman, AR, where he pissed up traditional and illegitimate country as well as Southern rock. He started performing in public when he was 15 and was a regular presence on the local honky tonk tour by 17. After college, he stirred to Nashville in 1990 and worked day jobs spell winning numerous talent shows. That lED to a live wireless performance and, in 1991, a case spear that netted him a deal with Atlantic.
In May 1991, just prior to the scheduled release of Lawrence's debut album, he was walking a girlfriend back to her hotel room when the iI were mugged by several gun-wielding attackers. Lawrence fought back to allow his fellow traveller meter to escape and was shot quartet times; 2 bullets only grazed him, but one had to be surgically removed from his articulatio genus, and the other remained deeply embedded in his pelvis. Fortunately, he progressed rapidly through physical therapy, and the album,
Sticks and Stones, was released later in the year when Lawrence could return to promotional duties. Its lead single, the title track, went all the way to number one on the body politic charts, helped out by all the packaging. More hits followed in the Top Tens "Runnin' Behind," "Today's Lonely Fool," and "Soul Paints the Wall," and Lawrence was on his way to stardom. He arrived thither with
Alibis, the platinum-selling 1993 reexamination that produced an dumfounding four chart-topping singles: the title track, "Can't Break It to My Heart," "My Second Home," and "If the Good Die Young."
In 1994, Lawrence contributed the Top Ten come to "Renegades, Rebels and Rogues" to the soundtrack of the movie version of
Maverick and too released his third album,
I See It Now. "TX Tornado" became his sixth number one score, and trey more singles -- the title rail, "As Any Fool Can See," and "If the World Had a Front Porch" -- all went to number 2. Somewhat lost in all the success was Lawrence's hold back that same yr on a weapons charge, simply it didn't slow his vocation momentum at all. He tossed off the
Live and Unplugged lay in 1995, which compiled acoustic tracks and concert performances with his backing band, Little Elvis. In 1996, he returned with the proper follow-up album
Time Marches On. The title track was a immense hit, topping the commonwealth charts, and "If You Love Me," "Stars Over Texas," and "Is That a Tear" all went Top Five. His hit streak continued with 1997's
The Coast Is Clear, which contained deuce more Top Five singles in the claim caterpillar track and "Better Man, Better Off."
All the same, all was non well behind the scenes. In January 1998, Lawrence was convicted on charges stemming from an incident in which his wife accused him of hitting and sullen her; the duet presently divorced. Lawrence set depressed for a piece, putting his life plump for together, and returned in 2000 with the uneven just extremely personal
Lessons Learned. The title track was a Top Five ruin, only it was the just major run into from the record, and Lawrence shortly parted shipway with Atlantic. He later on gestural with Warner Brothers and debuted for them in 2001 with an record album titled simply
Spencer Tracy Lawrence. Despite some near reviews, it failed to stanch his downward commercial impulse. Lawrence released the studio album
Strong in 2004 and a greatest-hits set through Dreamworks Nashville a yr afterwards.
For the Love arrived in the early 2007.
