Carrying Your Love with Me

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Allmusic
Chicago Tribune
Entertainment Weekly	B

Carrying Your Love With Me is the seventeenth studio album released in 1997 by American country music artist George Strait. It was released by MCA Nashville and it produced four singles for Strait on the Billboard country charts. "One Night at a Time", the title track, and "Round About Way", respectively the first, second, and fourth singles, all reached Number One, while "Today My World Slipped Away" (a cover of a Vern Gosdin song) reached #3. Eddie Kilgallon, then a member of the band Ricochet, co-wrote "One Night at a Time". The album has been certified 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for shipping three million copies in the U.S.

The song "She'll Leave You with a Smile" is not to be confused with another song with the same name which Strait recorded on his 2001 album The Road Less Traveled. This latter song, which was written by Odie Blackmon and Jay Knowles, was released by Strait in 2002, and became a Number One for him that year.

Track listing

1. "Round About Way" (Steve Dean, Wil Nance) – 3:02
2. "Carrying Your Love with Me" (Jeff Stevens, Steve Bogard) – 3:50
3. "One Night at a Time" (Roger Cook, Eddie Kilgallon, Earl Bud Lee) – 3:49
4. "She'll Leave You with a Smile" (Jackson Leap) – 3:06
5. "Won't You Come Home (And Talk to a Stranger)" (Wayne Kemp) – 2:49
6. "Today My World Slipped Away" (Mark Wright, Vern Gosdin) – 3:14
7. "I've Got a Funny Feeling" (Harlan Howard, Jackson Leap) – 3:00
8. "The Nerve" (Bobby Braddock) – 4:06
9. "That's Me (Every Chance I Get)" (Mark D. Sanders, Ed Hill) – 2:16
10. "A Real Good Place to Start" (Dean Dillon, Gary Nicholson) – 3:53

Personnel

• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
• Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Liana Manis – background vocals
• Brent Mason – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, gut string guitar
• Steve Nathan – Hammond B-3 organ
• Matt Rollings – piano
• George Strait – lead vocals
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar
• Curtis Young – background vocals

Strings on "The Nerve", "She'll Leave You with a Smile", and "Today My World Slipped Away" performed by the Nashville String Machine; arranged and conducted by Michael Omartian, except "Today My World Slipped Away", arranged by Bergen White and conducted by Michael Omartian.

Chart positions

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	1
Canadian RPM Country Albums	1
Canadian RPM Top Albums	28