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Track Listing
1. Look Heart, No Hands
2. Forever and Ever, Amen
3. No Place Like Home
4. Is It Still Over?
5. He Walked on Water
6. Take Another Swing at Me
7. Promises
8. Diggin' up Bones
9. I Won't Need You Anymore (Always and Forever)
10. It's Just a Matter of Time
11. I'd Do It All Again With You - (bonus track)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Randy Travis (vocals); Steve Gibson, Larry Byrom, Billy Joe Walker Jr., Dean Parker, Doyle Grisham, Skip Ewing, Brent Mason, Mark Casstevens, Russell Barenberg, Teddy Irwin, Bobby Thompson, Kenny Bell, Chris Leuzinger, Tom Rutledge (guitar); Bela Fleck (banjo); Kayton Roberts (Hawaiian steel guitar); Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin); Hoot Hester, Blaine Sprouse, Andrea Zonn (fiddle); Jerry Douglas, Steve Gibson (dobro); Paul Franklin (pedal dobro); Terry McMillan (harmonica, percussion); Shane Keister, Dennis Burnside, Kyle Lehning, Pig Robbins (piano, keyboards); Jack Williams, David Hungate (bass); Larrie London (drums); Kathy Baillie, Michael Bonagura, Alan LeBoeuf, Dennis Locorriere, Paul Overstreet (background vocals).
Engineers include: Joe Bogan, Keith Odle, Ben Harris.
The impact Randy Travis had on country music was immense. He arrived on the scene with such ease, wooing fans with his syrupy smooth baritone and musical style deeply rooted in tradition, that no one was threatened by the revolution he was instigating. Leading a pack of new traditionalists, Randy took his contemporary-sounding country music to commercial heights never before achieved in the genre. This second volume of his greatest hits (with two new songs - "Look Heart, No Hands" and "Take Another Swing at Me") covers a lot of his stylistic bases, but whether Travis is essaying cry-in-your-beer weepers (the wrenching "He Walked On Water") love-you-forever ballads ("Forever and Ever, Amen") or an old '50s r&b ballad (Brook Benton's "It's Just a Matter of Time") he sings them all with his patented, George Jones derived clench-jawed soul. Great stuff.
Industry Reviews
Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly - Robin F. Schwartz (11/12/1999)
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