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Hitmaker Tracy Byrd flies high again with the chart-climbing title track to The Truth About Men, featuring guest vocals from Andy Griggs, Montgomery Gentry, and Blake Shelton. The disc also includes a live version of his last chart-topping single, "Ten Rounds with José Cuervo." Barnes & Noble
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July 20, 2003: That song is really the truth about men. That and the song "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo" are the only Tracy Byrd song's I have heard.
This review was written about the CD edition.
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Hitmaker Tracy Byrd flies high again with the chart-climbing title track to The Truth About Men, featuring guest vocals from Andy Griggs, Montgomery Gentry, and Blake Shelton. The disc also includes a live version of his last chart-topping single, "Ten Rounds with José Cuervo."
Tracy Byrd is a bit of a goofball, which is a compliment. Unlike his second wave new traditionalist brethren, he realizes that a good part of country music is having a good time, and he refuses to take things too seriously. Add to that a good taste in songwriters -- something that can be particularly difficult for his peers, especially in terms of ballads -- and you have somebody who's a reliable record maker, somebody who always has a good joke and a good ballad at hand. Since he's so consistent, he's easy to underrate, because he makes it all seem easy and he does it with a smile. A smash hit like "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo" can provide an opportunity to reassess an artist, or at least to take stock of what he has to offer, and that happened with Byrd's 2001 album, Ten Rounds, yet another solid record that stood out from the pack due to that great song. For his follow-up, 2003's The Truth About Men, Byrd could have used that big hit to try something else, but he doesn't. He sticks to his tried and true neo-honky tonk and contemporary country ballad formula. But if a formula works, why try to change it? And The Truth About Men proves that the formula does work, offering smiles and slow dances in equal measure, all delivered with an offhand, guy-next-door charm from Byrd. Sometimes the slow tunes get a little too slow, sometimes the uptempo numbers are a little too silly (the title track has a good premise but some of the jibes don't quite work, not least because the Die Hard 4 mentioned in the second verse as a film preference doesn't even exist), but these are minor quibbles since this is a fun record. It has good-time party songs like the cheerful "Drinkin' Bone" (which is connected to the "party bone," after all) and "How'd I Wind Up in Jamaica," which does Jimmy Buffett better than "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," Buffett's duet with Alan Jackson that was a smash hit the summer The Truth About Men was released, as well as good ballads like Rodney Crowell's "Making Memories of Us." By the time the record closes with a live version of "Ten Rounds With Jose Cuervo," you're beyond wondering why it's here and just enjoying the ride. True, this album doesn't offer much different than other Byrd records, but song for song, it's one of his finest efforts and a hell of a lot of fun. Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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| Performance Credits | ||
| Tracy Byrd | Primary Artist | |
| Eric Darken | Percussion | |
| John Wesley Ryles | Background Vocals | |
| Jim Cox | Piano | |
| Randall Dennis | Piano | |
| Dan Dugmore | Dobro, Steel Guitar | |
| Stuart Duncan | Fiddle | |
| Paul Franklin | Steel Guitar | |
| John Hobbs | Piano | |
| John Jarvis | Synthesizer, Piano, Hammond Organ | |
| Paul Leim | Percussion, Drums | |
| B. James Lowry | Acoustic Guitar | |
| Liana Manis | Background Vocals | |
| JayDee Mannes | Steel Guitar | |
| Brent Mason | Electric Guitar | |
| John "J.R." Robinson | Drums | |
| Billy Joe Walker Jr. | Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Electric Guitar | |
| Glenn Worf | Bass | |
| Reggie Young | Electric Guitar | |
| Aubrey Haynie | Fiddle, Mandolin | |
| Michael Hart Thompson | Electric Guitar | |
| Neil Thrasher | Background Vocals | |
| Lisa Cochran | Background Vocals | |
| Leland Sklar | Bass | |
| Gabe Witcher | Fiddle | |
| Troy Lancaster | Electric Guitar | |
| Wes Hightower | Background Vocals | |
| Andy Griggs | Vocals | |
| Montgomery Gentry | Vocals | |
| Blake Shelton | Vocals | |
| John J. Moore | Bass, Background Vocals | |
| Larry Shelton | Trumpet | |
| Billy Carpenter | Drums | |
| John Lee Carpenter | Fiddle | |
| Stacy Clark | Trumpet | |
| Mark Matoska | Steel Guitar | |
| Carey Stone | Electric Guitar | |
| Technical Credits | ||
| Tracy Byrd | Producer | |
| Bob Bullock | Engineer | |
| Ed Seay | Mastering | |
| Ed Thacker | Engineer | |
| Steve Tillisch | Engineer | |
| Billy Joe Walker Jr. | Producer | |
| Russ Harrington | Cover Photo | |
| Benny Quinn | Mastering | |
| Ken Fredette | Reissue Design | |
| Wade Hunt | Art Direction | |
| Sam Story | Engineer | |
| Courtney Bentz | grooming | |
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