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A native of Vidor, Texas, Byrd got his break in music when he sang a karaoke version of Music/HankWilliams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" at a shopping mall. This led to him joining a talent show and then dropping out of college to form a band whose members previously included Music/MarkChesnutt.
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A native of Vidor, Texas, CountryMusic singer Tracy Lynn Byrd (1966-) got his break in music when he sang a karaoke version of Music/HankWilliams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" at a shopping mall. This led to him joining a talent show and then dropping out of college to form a band whose members previously included Music/MarkChesnutt.
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A native of Vidor, Texas, Byrd got his break in music when he sang a karaoke version of Music/HankWilliams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" at a shopping mall. This led to him joining a talent show and then dropping out of college to form a band whose members previously included Music/MarkChesnutt.
Byrd's first trip to Nashville was unsuccessful, but his second landed him a contract with Creator/{{MCA}} Nashville. While his first two singles -- "That's the Thing About a Memory" and a cover of Johnny Paycheck's "Someone to Give My Love To" -- both bombed, he hit #1 on Hot Country Songs in 1993 with "Holdin' Heaven". A self-titled disc for MCA that year went gold.
His commercial breakthrough was 1994's ''No Ordinary Man''. His most commercially successful album, it included his career-defining songs "Watermelon Crawl" and "The Keeper of the Stars". Three more studio albums would follow to modest success before he left MCA in favor of Creator/RCARecords in 1999. While his first RCA album was unsuccessful, his second landed him his second #1 hit with "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo". Follow-ups failed, and he exited RCA only one album later. He has sporadically continued to record since, primarily for smaller independent labels.
Byrd is an example of the 1990s "hat act" style of country, defined mainly by uptempo line-dance novelties (such as "Watermelon Crawl" and "I'm from the Country") interspersed with sensitive ballads.
!Albums
*''Tracy Byrd'' (1993)
*''No Ordinary Man'' (1994)
*''Love Lessons'' (1995)
*''Big Love'' (1996)
*''I'm from the Country'' (1998)
*''Keepers: Greatest Hits'' (1999)
*''It's About Time'' (1999)
*''Ten Rounds'' (2001)
*''The Truth About Men'' (2003)
*''Greatest Hits'' (2005)
*''Different Things'' (2006)
*''All American Texan'' (2016)
!Tropes present in his work:
* DanceSensation: "Watermelon Crawl" is about a dance invented at a fictional watermelon festival.
* DeadSparks: "I Wanna Feel That Way Again" has the narrator longing for the sensations he used to feel while in love.
* EnormousEngagementRing: Defied in "Don't Love Make a Diamond Shine", which states that the meaning behind a wedding ring is more important than its commercial value:
-->Don't love make a diamond shine\\
It don't matter if it costs a dime\\
Dang thing looks like a million bucks\\
Sittin' on the hand of a girl in love\\
A perfect fifteen carat\\
Is duller than dirt if the heart don't wear it\\
With three little words it'll knock you blind\\
Don't love make a diamond shine
* MenAreUncultured: Referenced in "The Truth About Men", which contains the line "We ain't wrong, we ain't sorry, and it's probably gonna happen again."
* OdeToIntoxication: "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo" has the narrator taking joy in drowning his sorrows, and then getting so drunk that he's lost count of how many shots he's had.
* RearrangeTheSong: "The Keeper of the Stars" was re-recorded for the radio edit.
* RevengeBallad: In "Revenge of a Middle Aged Woman", a woman sells her ex's Corvette for a ridiculously low price and then marries the guy who buys it.
A native of Vidor, Texas, Byrd got his break in music when he sang a karaoke version of Music/HankWilliams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" at a shopping mall. This led to him joining a talent show and then dropping out of college to form a band whose members previously included Music/MarkChesnutt.
Byrd's first trip to Nashville was unsuccessful, but his second landed him a contract with Creator/{{MCA}} Nashville. While his first two singles -- "That's the Thing About a Memory" and a cover of Johnny Paycheck's "Someone to Give My Love To" -- both bombed, he hit #1 on Hot Country Songs in 1993 with "Holdin' Heaven". A self-titled disc for MCA that year went gold.
His commercial breakthrough was 1994's ''No Ordinary Man''. His most commercially successful album, it included his career-defining songs "Watermelon Crawl" and "The Keeper of the Stars". Three more studio albums would follow to modest success before he left MCA in favor of Creator/RCARecords in 1999. While his first RCA album was unsuccessful, his second landed him his second #1 hit with "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo". Follow-ups failed, and he exited RCA only one album later. He has sporadically continued to record since, primarily for smaller independent labels.
Byrd is an example of the 1990s "hat act" style of country, defined mainly by uptempo line-dance novelties (such as "Watermelon Crawl" and "I'm from the Country") interspersed with sensitive ballads.
!Albums
*''Tracy Byrd'' (1993)
*''No Ordinary Man'' (1994)
*''Love Lessons'' (1995)
*''Big Love'' (1996)
*''I'm from the Country'' (1998)
*''Keepers: Greatest Hits'' (1999)
*''It's About Time'' (1999)
*''Ten Rounds'' (2001)
*''The Truth About Men'' (2003)
*''Greatest Hits'' (2005)
*''Different Things'' (2006)
*''All American Texan'' (2016)
!Tropes present in his work:
* DanceSensation: "Watermelon Crawl" is about a dance invented at a fictional watermelon festival.
* DeadSparks: "I Wanna Feel That Way Again" has the narrator longing for the sensations he used to feel while in love.
* EnormousEngagementRing: Defied in "Don't Love Make a Diamond Shine", which states that the meaning behind a wedding ring is more important than its commercial value:
-->Don't love make a diamond shine\\
It don't matter if it costs a dime\\
Dang thing looks like a million bucks\\
Sittin' on the hand of a girl in love\\
A perfect fifteen carat\\
Is duller than dirt if the heart don't wear it\\
With three little words it'll knock you blind\\
Don't love make a diamond shine
* MenAreUncultured: Referenced in "The Truth About Men", which contains the line "We ain't wrong, we ain't sorry, and it's probably gonna happen again."
* OdeToIntoxication: "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo" has the narrator taking joy in drowning his sorrows, and then getting so drunk that he's lost count of how many shots he's had.
* RearrangeTheSong: "The Keeper of the Stars" was re-recorded for the radio edit.
* RevengeBallad: In "Revenge of a Middle Aged Woman", a woman sells her ex's Corvette for a ridiculously low price and then marries the guy who buys it.
