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Heartbreak Town (1996)
  
Waitin' on Joe (2002)

Release date
  
27 February 1996

Genre
  
Country music

Artist
  
Steve Azar

Label
  
Intersound

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Released
  
February 27, 1996 (1996-02-27)

Producers
  
Joe Thomas, Steve Azar, A. J. Masters

Similar
  
Waitin' on Joe, Indianola, Slide On Over Here

Heartbreak Town is the debut album of American country music artist Steve Azar. Released on River North Records in 1996, it features the singles "Someday" and "I Never Stopped Loving You", which peaked at numbers 51 and 50, respectively, on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts that year. Azar did not release another album until Waitin' on Joe six years later. The track "I Go Crazy" is a cover of Paul Davis' hit single from 1978.

Contents

Critical reception

Country Standard Time critic Larry Stephens gave a mostly-negative review, saying that outside "Thunderbird" and "As Long as Harley Gets to Play," the album's songs were too similar to each other in sound and "not strong enough to carry [their] weight on radio." Billboard was more positive, with an uncredited review calling Azar's songwriting "adept", while comparing his voice favorably to John Mellencamp.

Track listing

  1. "I Never Stopped Lovin' You" (Steve Azar, Jason Blume) – 4:10
  2. "Nights Like This" (Azar, Bob Regan) – 3:32
  3. "What Are We Waitin' For" (Azar, Roger Murrah, A. J. Masters) – 2:43
  4. "Someday" (Azar, Masters, Regan) – 3:06
  5. "Thunderbird" (Azar, Masters, Tommy Rocco) – 4:54
  6. "As Long as Harley Gets to Play" (Azar, Masters, Murrah) – 3:50
  7. "Dreams of a Dancer" (Azar, Masters, Regan) – 3:11
  8. "Heartbreak Town" (Azar, Murrah, Regan) – 3:08
  9. "I Go Crazy" (Paul Davis) – 3:51
  10. "Caught Between the Rock and the Roll" (Azar, Masters, Don Goodman) – 4:15
  11. "Love Had No Right" (Azar, Masters, Tony Marty) – 3:20
  12. "You Don't Even Have to Try" (Azar, Masters, Murrah) – 3:03

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

  • Steve Azar – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Eddie Bayers – drums
  • Michael Black – background vocals
  • Kathy Burdick – background vocals
  • Glen Duncan – acoustic guitar
  • Larry Franklin – fiddle
  • Sonny Garrish – pedal steel guitar
  • Greg Leisz – electric guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
  • Brent Mason – electric guitar
  • A. J. Masters – acoustic guitar, bass guitar, background vocals
  • Matthew Morse – strings
  • Steve Nathan – piano, Hammond B-3 organ
  • Johnny Neel – piano
  • Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
  • Gary Pigg – background vocals
  • Bob Regan – electric guitar
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
  • Brent Rowan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
  • Joe Thomas – acoustic guitar, piano
  • Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle

    • Songs

    1I Never Stopped Loving You4:10
    2Nights Like This3:33
    3What Are We Waiting For2:44

    References

    Heartbreak Town Wikipedia
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