Track Listing
1. Pick up the Oars and Row
2. Four Walls
3. That Was Us
4. Angels
5. Running Blind
6. My Daddy Never Was
7. Place to Hang My Hat, A
8. Right on Time
9. My Poor Old Heart
10. I'm Your Man
11. Train Long Gone
12. I Can See It in Your Eyes
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | John Jarvis | | Producer: | Kyle Lehning | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel include: Randy Travis (vocals); Pat Flynn (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (pedal steel guitar); Larry Franklin (fiddle); John Jarvis (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Tony Harrell (Hammond b-3 organ); David Hungate (bass instrument); Paul Leim (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Cindy Walker, Wes Hightower (background vocals).
Recording information: Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee (2001); Stepbridge Studios, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2004); Cartee Day, Nashville, Tennessee (2004); Electric Sandbox, Nashville, TN (2004).
Well into his third decade as a country singer, Randy Travis continued to weather the changes in country music by remaining true to his own aesthetic. Travis was at the frontline of country's New Traditionalists in the 1980s, and, on 2004's PASSING THROUGH, he remains as roots-conscious as ever. For instance, the album's opening cut, the inspirational "Pick Up the Oars and Row," neatly splits the difference between Western Swing and barroom ballad, while the relatively up-tempo (Travis generally likes things slow and steady) "My Poor Old Heart" ventures into vintage George Jones honky-tonk territory. Travis retains one of the finest baritones in all of country music. On such ballads as the devotional "I'm Your Man" (not to be confused with the Leonard Cohen song of the same name) and the heart-on-a-sleeve "I Can See It in Your Eyes," he digs in deep to find every ounce of emotion in the song, twisting his captivating vocal chords around the melodies with an easy sense of mastery. That deceptively casual grace is the stuff of which true country legends are made.
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