Ten Rounds

Tracy Byrd | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 24, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00005LZR1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,686 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

East Texas traditionalist Tracy Byrd's beefy, muscular voice had the goods and could deliver them. Everyone knew it and that's still true. That said, the faint whiff of compromise has always dogged his records. The need to satisfy marketing concerns with generic songs and arrangements consistently nudges out the edgier fare Byrd is and has always been capable of. Here, that whiff becomes a full-fledged scent. While "Somebody's Dream" succeeds as social commentary, "Ten Rounds with José Cuervo" is yet another predictable Buffettesque sing-along drinking ditty. Byrd himself chose to revive Michael Martin Murphy's 1970s whiny hippie wussfest "Wildfire," but it doesn't fit his style. He recovers with a strong performance of "Never Gonna Break Again" and an enjoyable duet with Mark Chesnutt on "A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side," with the piquant line "A little sissy in a cowboy hat ain't country." True. By the same token, a great country singer in a cowboy hat ain't well served by so much throwaway material. --Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tray At His Best, July 26, 2001

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Lorraine L. Delano (Bellmawr, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ten Rounds (Audio CD)

I was lucky enough to see Tracy perform six of the songs from Ten Rounds in person. He was awesome and this is his best work ever. There are a lot of great songs Just Let Me Be In Love, Wildfire and many more. Of course Keeper Of The Stars is on it and that is my favorite song in the world. Tracy is the best, I know he has a winner on his hands.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars His Best Album Yet, December 17, 2001

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"bigmavdaddy" (Omaha, Ne USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ten Rounds (Audio CD)

This is one of Tracy Byrd's finest albums yet, I must admit I just bought it for the song "Just let me be in Love" but that is only one of the awesome songs on this album. I havent taken it out of my CD player since I got it. I was surprised to find that Kenny Chesney and Mark Chesnutt are also on this album, since they showed up in studio when Tracy was recording with a bottle of Tequila (hence the name "Ten Rounds"). The lyric and music quality is great and proves just how far Tracy Byrd has come in his career.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tracy's 8th album is one of his best, July 24, 2001

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E. Mullins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ten Rounds (Audio CD)

Tracy's 8th album, Ten Rounds, is one of the best albums in his career. Unlinke his last, it is also more radio-friendly with a great mixture of fun / uptemp songs and slower ballads. The sound on the album is more fresh than his recent albums. He sings all songs with a lot of energy and captures the feelings of songs such as the latin sounding 'ten rounds with jose cuervo' and the second single, 'just let me be in love'

In my opinion, 'Somebody's Dream' is one of the coolest songs i have ever heard lyrically and musically. It is about the dreams of people, and how they can change quickly.

The first single from the cd was 'A Good Way to get on my bad side' sung with Mark Chesnutt. It is a very rocking song.

Summertime fever is also a very good Watermelon Crawl / I'm from the country type song.

Great ballads include 'needed' and 'how much does the world weigh', which highlights struggles that people face in life.

Mid Tempo songs include 'Crazy every time' 'tryin not to love you' and a great song about starting a new relationship in(If you let me fix your heart it's never gonna break again)'never gonna break again'

This album also contains a remake of Michael Murphy's 'Wildfire' and a re-recording of Tracy's #1 hit 'The keeper of the stars'.

Overall, a very enjoyable album from Tracy along the same lines as his , 'I'm From The Country' album instead of his last album, 'It's about time'