Looking Out for Number One (Travis Tritt song)

"Looking Out for Number One"
Single by Travis Tritt
from the album T-R-O-U-B-L-E
Released July 5, 1993
Genre Country
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Travis Tritt, Troy Seals
Producer Gregg Brown
Travis Tritt singles chronology
"T-R-O-U-B-L-E"
(1993)
"Looking Out for Number One"
(1993)
"Worth Every Mile"
(1993)

"Looking Out for Number One" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Travis Tritt. It was released in July 1993 as the fourth single from the album T-R-O-U-B-L-E. The song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Tritt "maintains his uncanny sense of balance between country and southern rock in this ode to self-preservation." She says that the song contains "ripping guitar and growling blues harp way up front." She goes on to say that Tritt's "pinched-from-the-throat vocals manage to keep things reassuringly country."[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1993) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 11
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 4

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 353. 
  2. ^ Billboard, July 10, 1993