Then & Now: The Hits Collection

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Then & Now: The Hits Collection
Greatest hits by Tracy Lawrence
Released	2005
Genre	Country
Label	Mercury
Producer	James Stroud, Tracy Lawrence
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Strong (2004) Then & Now: The Hits Collection (2005) For the Love (2007)

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 which were released as singles. The latter track was co-written by Mark Nesler, whose own version of the song was a #45 hit on the country charts in 1998.

Lawrence re-recorded all of the previously-released songs 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.^[1][2]

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1. "Used to the Pain" (Mark Nesler, Tony Martin)^A
2. "Paint Me a Birmingham" (Buck Moore, Gary Duffy)
3. "If I Don't Make It Back" (Brett Jones, Bobby Pinson)^A
4. "If the World Had a Front Porch" (Tracy Lawrence, Paul Nelson, Kenny Beard)
5. "Sticks and Stones" (Elbert West, Roger Dillon)
6. "Is That a Tear" (John Jarrard, Beard)
7. "Time Marches On" (Bobby Braddock)
8. "I See It Now" (Nelson, Larry Boone, Woody Lee)
9. "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" (Boone, Nelson, Lawrence)
10. "Alibis" (Randy Boudreaux)
11. "Today's Lonely Fool" (Beard, Stan Paul Davis)
12. "Can't Break It to My Heart" (Kirk Roth, Lawrence, Earl Clark, West)
13. "Lessons Learned" (Lawrence, Nelson, Boone)
14. "Texas Tornado" (Braddock)
15. "Stars Over Texas" (Boone, Lawrence, Nelson)
16. "My Second Home" (Lawrence, Beard, Nelson)
17. "If the Good Die Young" (Nelson, Craig Wiseman)

^APreviously unreleased track.

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