Carrying Your Love with Me

Carrying Your Love with Me is the seventeenth studio album by the American country music artist George Strait, released in 1997. 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. "Carrying Your Love with Me" was nominated for Best Country Album at the 1998 Grammy Awards.

Carrying Your Love with Me
Studio album by George Strait
Released	April 22, 1997
Recorded	September 1996
Studio	Emerald Sound Studios and Masterfonics (Nashville, TN).
Genre	Neotraditional country
Length	33:03
Label	MCA Nashville
Producer	Tony Brown George Strait
George Strait chronology
Blue Clear Sky (1996) Carrying Your Love with Me (1997) One Step at a Time (1998)
Singles from Carrying Your Love with Me
"One Night at a Time" Released: March 10, 1997 "Carrying Your Love with Me" Released: May 22, 1997 "Today My World Slipped Away" Released: August 29, 1997 "Round About Way" Released: January 5, 1998

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B[3]

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.

Musical style and composition

Carrying Your Love with Me has been described as a neotraditional country album,^[4] with elements of honky-tonk and bluegrass.^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Round About Way"	Steve Dean, Wil Nance	3:05
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, 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

• George Strait – lead vocals
• Steve Nathan – Hammond B3 organ
• Matt Rollings – acoustic piano
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitars
• Brent Mason – electric guitars, acoustic guitar, gut-string guitar
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Nashville String Machine – strings (4, 6, 8)
• Michael Omartian – string arrangements (4, 8), string conductor (4, 6, 8)
• Bergen White – string arrangements (6)
• Liana Manis – backing vocals
• Curtis Young – backing vocals

Production

• Tony Brown – producer
• George Strait – producer
• Steve Marcantonio – recording
• Chris Davie – second engineer
• Chuck Ainlay – mixing
• Mark Ralston – mix assistant
• Don Cobb – digital editing
• Carlos Grier – digital editing
• Denny Purcell – mastering
• Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee) – editing and mastering location
• Jessie Noble – project coordinator
• Katie Gillon – art direction
• Virginia Team – art direction
• Chris Ferrara – design
• Mike Rutherford – photography
• Debra Wingo – grooming
• Erv Woolsey – management

Charts

Weekly charts Weekly chart performance for Carrying Your Love with Me Chart (1997) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] 45 Canadian Albums (RPM) 28 Canadian Country Albums (RPM) 1 US Billboard 200[7] 1 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[8] 1

Year-end charts 1997 year-end chart performance for Honkytonkville Chart (1997) Position US Billboard 200[9] 24 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[10] 4 1998 year-end chart performance for Honkytonkville Chart (1998) Position US Billboard 200[11] 172 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[12] 19

References

1. AllMusic review
2. Chicago Tribune review
3. "Entertainment Weekly review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
4. Flippo, Chet (April 19, 1997). "George Strait Carries On With Traditional Country, Top-Notch Songs on 'Carrying'". Billboard. p. 30. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
5. "Carrying Your Love with Me - George Strait". Apple Music. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
6. "Australiancharts.com – George Strait – Carrying Your Love with Me". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
7. "George Strait Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
8. "George Strait Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
9. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1997". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
10. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1997". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
11. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1998". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
12. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1998". Billboard. Retrieved May 14, 2021.