What Livin's All About

What Livin's All About
Studio album by Rhett Akins
Released	January 13, 1998 (1998-01-13)
Recorded	1997
Genre	Country
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	James Stroud
Rhett Akins chronology
Somebody New (1996) What Livin's All About (1998) Friday Night in Dixie (2002)

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What Livin's All About is the third studio album by American country music artist Rhett Akins. It was released in 1998 on MCA Nashville. The album accounted for two singles: "More Than Everything" and "Better Than It Used to Be", which respectively reached #41 and #47 on the Billboard country singles charts. It was also his only release for MCA. The track "I'll Be Right Here Lovin' You" was later released as a single by Randy Travis from his 1999 album A Man Ain't Made of Stone.

Track listing

1. "Better Than It Used to Be" (Mark D. Sanders, Neil Thrasher) – 3:10
2. "Happy as We Wanna Be" (Tim Nichols, Sanders) – 2:45
3. "More Than Everything" (Marv Green, Aimee Mayo) – 3:13
4. "I'll Be Right Here Lovin' You" (Jeffrey Steele, T.W. Hale) – 3:00
5. "Not in the Cards" (Tom Shapiro, Bob Regan) – 3:31
6. "What Livin's All About" (Taylor Dunn, Danny Orton) – 3:22
7. "She's Got Everything Money Can't Buy" (Steve Bogard, Gregory Cook, Jeff Stevens) – 3:22
8. "Ain't That Just Like a Woman" (Monty Criswell, Lee Thomas Miller) – 3:15
9. "Dream the Rest" (Criswell, Brenda Sweat) – 3:39
10. "Love Rules" (Nichols, William Robinson) – 3:28
11. "I'm Finding Out" (Thom McHugh, J.B. Rudd) – 3:01
12. "The Rest of Forever" (Kent Blazy, Skip Ewing) – 4:46

Personnel

• Rhett Akins- acoustic guitar, lead vocals
• Eddie Bayers- drums
• Mike Brignardello- bass guitar
• Larry Byrom- acoustic guitar
• J.T. Corenflos- electric guitar
• Stuart Duncan- fiddle
• Paul Franklin- steel guitar
• Sonny Garrish- steel guitar
• Brent Mason- electric guitar
• Steve Nathan- piano
• Michael Rhodes- bass guitar
• Matt Rollings- piano
• Russell Terrell- background vocals
• Kent Wells- electric guitar
• Curtis Young- background vocals

Chart performance

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	33
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	20