Then & Now: The Hits Collection

Greatest hits album by Tracy Lawrence

Released

October 18, 2005

Tracy Lawrence
James Stroud

Tracy Lawrence chronology

Singles from Then & Now: The Hits Collection
Strong (2004)	Then & Now: The Hits Collection (2005)	For the Love (2007)
"Used to the Pain" Released: June 14, 2005^[1] "If I Don't Make It Back" Released: November 7, 2005

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Then & Now: The Hits Collection is the second greatest-hits collection from American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It is composed several hits from his previous albums, as well as the newly recorded tracks "Used to the Pain" and "If I Don't Make It Back". Both of these were released as singles, peaking at numbers 35 and 42, respectively, on the country charts.

Content

"Used to the Pain" was previously released by its co-writer, Mark Nesler, on his 1998 debut album I'm Just That Way, and it was a number 45 single for him that year. Bobby Pinson, who co-wrote "If I Don't Make It Back", later recorded it on his 2007 album Songs for Somebody.

Lawrence re-recorded all of the previously released material for this album (except for "Paint Me a Birmingham") because Mercury Nashville Records, the label to which he was signed at the time, did not own the rights to his older material for Atlantic Records.^[3]^[4] This album is also his only release for Mercury.

Track listing

"Used to the Pain" (Mark Nesler, Tony Martin)^A – 3:14
"Paint Me a Birmingham" (Buck Moore, Gary Duffy) – 3:49
"If I Don't Make It Back" (Brett Jones, Bobby Pinson)^A – 4:04
"If the World Had a Front Porch" (Tracy Lawrence, Paul Nelson, Kenny Beard) – 3:05
"Sticks and Stones" (Elbert West, Roger Dillon) – 3:39
"Is That a Tear" (John Jarrard, Beard) – 3:21
"Time Marches On" (Bobby Braddock) – 3:07
"I See It Now" (Nelson, Larry Boone, Woody Lee) – 3:37
"How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" (Boone, Nelson, Lawrence) – 3:35
"Alibis" (Randy Boudreaux) – 3:07
"Today's Lonely Fool" (Beard, Stan Paul Davis) – 3:53
"Can't Break It to My Heart" (Kirk Roth, Lawrence, Earl Clark, West) – 3:40
"Lessons Learned" (Lawrence, Nelson, Boone) – 3:00
"Texas Tornado" (Braddock) – 3:33
"Stars over Texas" (Boone, Lawrence, Nelson) – 3:37
"My Second Home" (Lawrence, Beard, Nelson) – 2:47
"If the Good Die Young" (Nelson, Craig Wiseman) – 2:29

^APreviously unreleased track.

Personnel

Eddie Bayers – drums
Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
Mark Casstevens – harmonica
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar, Dobro
Paul Franklin – steel guitar, Dobro
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
Tony Harrell – piano, keyboards
Wes Hightower – background vocals
Tracy Lawrence – lead vocals
B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
Liana Manis – background vocals
Brent Mason – electric guitar
Steve Nathan – piano, keyboards
John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Curtis Wright – background vocals
Curtis Young – background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	8
U.S. Billboard 200	35

References

Tracy Lawrence

Studio albums	Sticks and Stones Alibis I See It Now Time Marches On The Coast Is Clear Lessons Learned Tracy Lawrence Strong For the Love All Wrapped Up in Christmas The Rock

Compilation albums	Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged The Best of Tracy Lawrence Then & Now: The Hits Collection The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence

Notable singles	"Sticks and Stones" "Today's Lonely Fool" "Runnin' Behind" "Somebody Paints the Wall" "Alibis" "Can't Break It to My Heart" "My Second Home" "If the Good Die Young" "Renegades, Rebels and Rogues" "I See It Now" "As Any Fool Can See" "Texas Tornado" "If the World Had a Front Porch" "If You Loved Me" "Time Marches On" "Stars over Texas" "Is That a Tear" "Better Man, Better Off" "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" "The Coast Is Clear" "Lessons Learned" "Lonely" "Unforgiven" "Life Don't Have to Be So Hard" "Paint Me a Birmingham" "It's All How You Look at It" "Used to the Pain" "Find Out Who Your Friends Are"

Related articles	Discography Atlantic Records Warner Bros. Records Rocky Comfort Records

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