The Coast Is Clear (Tracy Lawrence album)

Coast Is Clear
Studio album by Tracy Lawrence
Released March 18, 1997
Genre Country
Length 33:01
Label Atlantic
Producer Flip Anderson, Tracy Lawrence, Don Cook
Tracy Lawrence chronology

Time Marches On
(1996)		 The Coast Is Clear
(1997)		 The Best of Tracy Lawrence
(1998)
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The Coast Is Clear is the fifth studio album released by country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It produced five singles: "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye", "Better Man, Better Off", "The Coast Is Clear", "One Step Ahead of the Storm" and "While You Sleep". Though the first two singles charted at #2 and #4 on the country chart, respectively, the title track was the first single of Lawrence's career to fall short of the Top Ten. "While You Sleep" missed the Top 40 entirely, and "One Step Ahead of the Storm" failed to chart at all. Lawrence did not release another studio album until Lessons Learned in 2000.

Track listing

  1. "Better Man, Better Off" (Stan Paul Davis, Brett Jones) – 3:35
  2. "The Coast Is Clear" (Jess Brown, Jones) – 3:56
  3. "Any Minute Now" (J.B. Rudd, Thom McHugh) – 2:58
  4. "While You Sleep" (Larry Boone, Tracy Lawrence, Paul Nelson) – 3:04
  5. "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" (Boone, Lawrence, Nelson) – 3:32
  6. "One Step Ahead of the Storm" (Boone, Lawrence, Nelson) – 3:00
  7. "In a Moment of Weakness" (Boone, Nelson) – 3:24
  8. "Livin' in Black and White" (Lawrence, Gary Baker, Frank J. Myers) – 3:07
  9. "I Hit the Ground Crawlin'" (Boone, Lawrence, Nelson) – 2:56
  10. "As Lonesome as It Gets" (Larry Cordle, J.P. Pennington) – 3:29

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.[1]

Tracks 1 - 4, 7 & 10

Tracks 5, 6, 8 & 9

Chart performance

Chart (1997) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 4
U.S. Billboard 200 45
Canadian RPM Country Albums 6

References

  1. ↑ The Coast Is Clear (Media notes). Tracy Lawrence. Atlantic Records. 1997. 82985-2.