The Coast Is Clear (Tracy Lawrence album)

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.

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) Coast Is Clear (1997) The Best of Tracy Lawrence (1998)
Singles from The Coast Is Clear
"Better Man, Better Off" Released: February 22, 1997 "How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye" Released: May 26, 1997 "The Coast is Clear" Released: September 1997 "While You Sleep" Released: March 1998 "One Step Ahead of the Storm" Released: September 1998

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Entertainment Weekly	B+ link

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

• Flip Anderson - piano, keyboards
• Tom Baughman - steel guitar
• Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar, hi-strung guitar
• Billy Cochran - fiddle
• Butch Davis - electric guitar, slide guitar
• Deryl Dodd - background vocals
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Rob Hajacos - fiddle
• Tony Harrell - piano, keyboards
• Tracy Lawrence - lead vocals
• Terry McMillan - percussion
• Liana Manis - background vocals
• Eric Nelson - drums
• Darryl O'Donnell - acoustic guitar
• Dave Pomeroy - bass guitar
• Brent Rowan - electric guitar, mandolin
• Milton Sledge - drums
• Leon Watson - bass guitar
• Kristin Wilkinson - string arrangement on "While You Sleep"

Tracks 5, 6, 8 & 9

• Bruce C. Bouton - steel guitar
• Dennis Burnside - piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
• Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
• Rob Hajacos - fiddle, "assorted hoedown tools"
• Tracy Lawrence - lead vocals
• Brent Mason - electric guitar, tic tac bass, gut string guitar
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Dennis Wilson - background vocals
• Lonnie Wilson - drums, percussion, acoustic guitar
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

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.CS1 maint: others (link)