You and You Alone (album)

You and You Alone
Studio album by Randy Travis
Released	April 21, 1998
Genre	Country
Length	41:50
Label	DreamWorks Nashville
Producer	Byron Gallimore James Stroud Randy Travis
Randy Travis chronology
Full Circle (1996) You and You Alone (1998) A Man Ain't Made of Stone (1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B [2]
Rolling Stone	[3]

You and You Alone is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Randy Travis. His first album for DreamWorks Records Nashville, it produced four singles on the Billboard country music charts between 1998 and 1999: "Out of My Bones", "The Hole", "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man", and "Stranger in My Mirror", which peaked at numbers 2, 9, 2 and 16, respectively, on the country charts. Counting his 1993 side project Wind in the Wire, this is also the second of three studio albums of his career not to be produced by longtime producer Kyle Lehning (Travis' succeeding album, 1999's A Man Ain't Made of Stone, was the third and final project that Lehning did not produce). Instead, Travis co-produced the album with Byron Gallimore and James Stroud.^[4]

"Satisfied Mind" was previously recorded by Hal Ketchum on his 1996 greatest-hits album The Hits, and "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man" by Mark Collie on his 1995 album Tennessee Plates (also produced by Stroud).

"Only Worse" was best known for playing in the background of a diner in the 2000 comedy film Road Trip.

Patrick Swayze, a friend of Travis', sang background vocals on the track "I Did My Part".^[4]

Track listing

1. "The Hole" (Skip Ewing, James Dean Hicks) – 3:08
2. "Out of My Bones" (Gary Burr, Robin Lerner, Sharon Vaughn) – 2:45
3. "Spirit of a Boy, Wisdom of a Man" (Glen Burtnik, Trey Bruce) – 3:50
4. "Only Worse" (John Jarrard, Kent Robbins) – 2:53
5. "One Word Song" (Jarrard, Max T. Barnes) – 3:35
6. "I Did My Part" (Don Schlitz, Billy Livsey) – 3:45
   • feat. Patrick Swayze on background vocals
7. "A Horse Called Music" (Wayne Carson) – 4:30
8. "I'm Still Here, You're Still Gone" (Ralph Murphy, Kevin Brandt) – 2:45
9. "Easy to Love You" (Deanna Bryant, Danny Orton) – 3:47
10. "Stranger in My Mirror" (Ewing, Kim Wiliams) – 3:15
11. "You and You Alone" (Melba Montgomery, Leslie Satcher, Tim Ryan Rouillier) – 3:59
12. "Satisfied Mind" (Tony Arata) – 3:38

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.^[4]

• Eddie Bayers — drums
• Larry Beiard — acoustic guitar
• Mike Brignardello — bass guitar
• Larry Byrom — acoustic guitar
• Stuart Duncan — fiddle
• Paul Franklin — steel guitar, Dobro
• Sonny Garrish — steel guitar, Dobro
• Vince Gill — background vocals
• Aubrey Haynie — fiddle, mandolin
• Jeff King — electric guitar
• Alison Krauss — background vocals
• Paul Leim — drums
• Terry McMillan — harmonica
• Brent Mason — acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Melba Montgomery — background vocals
• Steve Nathan — keyboards, piano, Hammond B-3 organ
• Michael Rhodes — bass guitar
• Matt Rollings — piano, Hammond B-3 organ
• Brent Rowan — electric guitar
• John Wesley Ryles — background vocals
• Leslie Satcher — background vocals
• Patrick Swayze — background vocals on "I Did My Part"
• Randy Travis — lead vocals
• Dan Tyminski — background vocals, vibraphone
• Lonnie Wilson — drums
• Glenn Worf — bass guitar
• Curtis Wright — background vocals
• Curtis Young — background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	7
U.S. Billboard 200	49

References

1. Owens, Thom. You and You Alone (album) at AllMusic
2. Entertainment Weekly review
3. Rolling Stone review
4. You and You Alone (CD booklet). Randy Travis. DreamWorks Records. 1998. 50034.