That's Life (Neal McCoy album)

That's Life
Studio album by Neal McCoy
Released	August 23, 2005 (2005-08-23)
Genre	Country
Label	903 Music
Producer	Eric Silver
Neal McCoy chronology
The Luckiest Man in the World (2003) That's Life (2005) XII (2012)

That's Life is a studio album, released in 2005, by American country music artist Neal McCoy. It was released on his own 903 Music label. Three singles were released from this album: "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On", the first of these three, reached #10 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2005, becoming McCoy's first Top Ten hit since "The Shake" in 1997. "The Last of a Dying Breed" peaked at #36, while "Tail on the Tailgate" failed to chart. Also included here is a live rendition of "Hillbilly Rap", the original version of which was an album cut from his 1996 self-titled album.

Track listing

1. "Got Mud" (Monty Criswell, Jerrod Niemann) – 2:51
2. "Intro (General Tommy Franks)" – 0:45
   • spoken-word intro to "The Last of a Dying Breed", recited by Tommy Franks
3. "The Last of a Dying Breed" (Tommy Connors, Don Rollins, D. Vincent Williams) – 3:02
4. "That's Life" (Eric Silver, Matt Rollings) – 4:10
5. "All Over Again" (Randy Goodrum, Don Mescall) – 4:11
6. "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" (Philip White, Michael Mobley) – 3:38
7. "That's a Picture" (Bryan Simpson, Wade Kirby, Ashley Gorley) – 3:04
8. "You Let Me Be the Hero" (Silver, Rodney Clawson) – 3:46
9. "Tail on the Tailgate" (Brian White, Tania Hancheroff, Clawson) – 4:00
10. "Tails I Lose" (Silver, Neal McCoy) – 3:46
11. "Jessie" (Jeremy Campbell, McCoy, Donny Hackett) – 3:52
12. "You're My Jamaica" (Kent Robbins) – 3:45
    • featuring Charley Pride
13. "Head South" (Darrell Scott) – 2:40
14. "Hillbilly Rap (Live)" (Lord Burgess, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, William Attawar, Paul Henning) – 6:31

A special CD-ROM track of "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On" is also available on some presses of the album.

Personnel

• David Angell- violin
• Steve Auburn- fiddle, background vocals
• Bekka Bramlett- background vocals
• Bob Britt- electric guitar
• Matt Britton- steel drums
• Chuck Butler- drum programming
• David Davidson- violin
• Scott Dixon- electric guitar
• Tommy Franks- introduction on track 2
• Sonny Garrish- steel guitar, lap steel guitar
• Wes Hightower- background vocals
• Mark Hill- bass guitar
• Wayne Killius- drums, percussion
• Anthony LaMarchina- cello
• Troy Lancaster- electric guitar
• Brent Mason- electric guitar
• Lynn Massey- drums, background vocals
• Neal McCoy- lead vocals
• Shane McDaniel- steel guitar, background vocals
• Jerry McPherson- electric guitar
• Lorne O'Neil- bass guitar, background vocals
• Charley Pride- vocals on "You're My America"
• Michael Rhodes- bass guitar
• Jeffrey Roach- Hammond organ, synthesizer
• Tom Roady- percussion
• Lou Rodriguez- acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Mike Rojas- Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer
• Matt Rollings- piano
• Eric Silver- banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, shaker, background vocals, wah wah guitar
• Pamela Sixfin- violin
• Todd Stewart- keyboards
• Bryan White- background vocals
• Kristen Wilkinson- string arrangements, viola
• Andrea Zonn- background vocals

Chart performance

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