First Time for Everything
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First Time for Everything is the first studio album by country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band Little Texas
Little Texas
Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...

. Released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

, the album was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies. Five singles were released from it: "Some Guys Have All the Love", the title track, "You and Forever and Me", "What Were You Thinkin'", and "I'd Rather Miss You". Respectively, these reached #8, #13, #5, #17 and #16 on the Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts.

Track listing

  1. "Some Guys Have All the Love
    Some Guys Have All the Love
    "Some Guys Have All the Love" was the debut single of country music group Little Texas. It was released in September 1991 as the lead single from their debut album, First Time for Everything. It was co-written by the band's lead guitarist Porter Howell and rhythm guitarist Dwayne O'Brien...

    " (Porter Howell, Dwayne O'Brien) – 2:53
  2. "First Time for Everything
    First Time for Everything (song)
    "First Time for Everything" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music group Little Texas. It was released in February 1992 as the second single from their debut album of the same name, First Time for Everything. It was co-written by the band's lead guitarist Porter...

    " (Howell, O'Brien) – 3:58
  3. "Down in the Valley" (Brady Seals
    Brady Seals
    Brady Seals is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart...

    ) – 1:58
  4. "You and Forever and Me
    You and Forever and Me
    "You and Forever and Me" is the title of a song recorded by country music group Little Texas. It was released in June 1992 as the third single from their debut album, First Time for Everything. It was co-written by the band's lead guitarist Porter Howell and Stewart Harris...

    " (Howell, Stewart Harris) - 3:44
  5. "What Were You Thinkin" (Howell, O'Brien, Seals, Christy DiNapoli) - 3:22
  6. "Dance" (Howell, O'Brien) - 2:57
  7. "Better Way" (Seals, Tommy Barnes) - 3:36
  8. "I'd Rather Miss You
    I'd Rather Miss You
    "I'd Rather Miss You" is the title of a song recorded by American country music group Little Texas. It was released in January 1993 as the fifth and final single from their debut album, First Time for Everything. It was co-written by the band's lead guitarist Porter Howell and Dwayne O'Brien...

    " (Howell, O'Brien) - 3:57
  9. "Just One More Night" (Howell, O'Brien) - 3:30
  10. "Cry On" (Howell, O'Brien, Seals) - 3:07

Little Texas

  • Del Gray - drums
  • Porter Howell - lead, rhythm
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

    , slide
    Slide guitar
    Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

     & acoustic guitars, 6 string bass, vocals
  • Dwayne O'Brien - acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Duane Propes - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Tim Rushlow
    Tim Rushlow
    Timothy Ray "Tim" Rushlow is an American country music artist. Between 1991 and 1997, Rushlow was co-lead vocalist of the country music band Little Texas, which recorded four albums and a Greatest Hits package, in addition to charting more than fifteen singles on the Billboard country singles...

     - lead vocals
  • Brady Seals
    Brady Seals
    Brady Seals is an American country music artist. He is the cousin of Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Johnny Duncan, the nephew of Troy Seals, and the husband of former BNA Records recording artist Lisa Stewart...

     - piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , Hammond A-100, lead & background vocals

Additional Musicians

  • Larry Byrom
    Larry Byrom
    Larry Byrom is an American guitarist who has written, recorded, and toured with acts like Steppenwolf, Ratchell, Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Peter Frampton, Eddie Rabbit and Tanya Tucker.- References :...

     - acoustic guitar on "Some Guys Have All the Love"
  • Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

  • Dann Huff
    Dann Huff
    Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...

     - electric rhythm guitar
  • Brent Rowan - electric rhythm guitar
  • James Stroud
    James Stroud
    James Stroud is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, and country music. In the 1990s he was the president of Giant Records and held several credits as a session drummer...

     - percussion

Chart performance

Chart (1992) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 19
U.S. Billboard 200 99
Canadian RPM Country Albums 17
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