Strong is the title of an album released in 2004 by American country music

Country music

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 singer Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence

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. His only album for the DreamWorks label, it produced three singles for him on the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs

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) charts: "Paint Me a Birmingham" (#4), "It's All How You Look at It" (#35) and "Sawdust on Her Halo" (#48). "Paint Me a Birmingham" was also recorded in 2003 by Ken Mellons

Ken Mellons

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 on his album Sweet, from which it was released as a single shortly before Lawrence's rendition.

Track listing

1. "It's All How You Look at It" (Rivers Rutherford
   Rivers Rutherford
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   , Dave Berg
   Dave Berg (songwriter)
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   , Georgia Middleman
   Georgia Middleman
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   ) – 3:04
2. "Strong" (Bob Regan, Jimmy Ritchey) – 4:29
3. "Stones" (Jimbeau Hinson, Kim Tribble, Jon Michaels) – 3:54
4. "Paint Me a Birmingham
   Paint Me a Birmingham
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   " (Gary Duffy, Buck Moore) – 3:47
5. "Everywhere but Hollywood" (Jason Sellers
   Jason Sellers
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   , Bobby Pinson
   Bobby Pinson
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   , Ritchey) – 3:07
6. "A Far Cry from You" (Tony Lane, Jess Brown, Robin English) – 3:49
7. "Bobby Darwin's Daughter" (Larry Boone
   Larry Boone
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   , Paul Nelson, Rick Huckaby) – 4:18
8. "What the Flames Feel Like" (Marty Dodson, George Teren) – 3:33
9. "Sawdust on Her Halo" (Monty Criswell, Huckaby) – 3:14
10. "When Daddy Was a Strong Man" (Casey Beathard
    Casey Beathard
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    , Kendell Marvell) – 4:00
11. "Think of Me" (Nelson, Lewis Anderson) – 4:11
12. "The Questionnaire" (Aaron Barker, Phillip Douglas, Ron Harbin) – 3:40

Personnel

• Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
  Steel guitar
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• Shannon Forrest - drums
• Paul Franklin
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   - steel guitar
• Aubrey Haynie
  Aubrey Haynie
  Aubrey Haynie is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle and mandolin. In his career, he has recorded three studio albums for the Sugar Hill Records label, all three of which contained mostly songs that he wrote himself...
  
   - fiddle
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  , mandolin
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• Gary Lunn - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Liana Manis - background vocals
• Brent Mason
  Brent Mason
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   - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Steve Nathan - piano
  Piano
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  , keyboards
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• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
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• Bergen White - string arrangements

Chart performance

Chart (2004)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Country Albums	2
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	17