Easy Come Easy Go (George Strait album)

Easy Come Easy Go is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released by MCA Records and it produced four singles for Strait on the Hot Country Songs charts: the title track (#1), a cover of George Jones' 1965 hit "Lovebug" (#8), "I'd Like to Have That One Back" (#3), and "The Man in Love with You" (#5).

Easy Come Easy Go
Studio album by George Strait
Released	September 28, 1993
Recorded	April 1993
Studio	Sound Stage Studios and Masterfonics (Nashville, TN); O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA).
Genre	Neotraditional country[1][2] honky-tonk[1]
Length	31:32
Label	MCA
Producer	Tony Brown George Strait
George Strait chronology
Pure Country (1992) Easy Come Easy Go (1993) Lead On (1994)
Singles from Easy Come Easy Go
"Easy Come, Easy Go" Released: August 9, 1993 "I'd Like to Have That One Back" Released: November 29, 1993 "Lovebug" Released: February 28, 1994 "The Man in Love with You" Released: June 14, 1994

Professional ratings

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

Barbra Streisand covered "We Must Be Loving Right" on her 1999 album A Love Like Ours.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Stay Out of My Arms"	Jim Lauderdale	2:35
2.	"Just Look at Me"	Gerald Smith, Curtis Wayne	3:08
3.	"Easy Come, Easy Go"	Aaron Barker, Dean Dillon	3:02
4.	"I'd Like to Have That One Back"	Barker, Bill Shore, Rick West	3:51
5.	"Lovebug"	Wayne Kemp, Wayne	2:50
6.	"I Wasn't Fooling Around"	Lauderdale, John Leventhal	3:00
7.	"Without Me Around"	Dillon, John Northrup	3:26
8.	"The Man in Love with You"	Steve Dorff, Gary Harju	3:22
9.	"That's Where My Baby Feels at Home"	Kemp, Wayne, Faron Young	2:44
10.	"We Must Be Loving Right"	Clay Blaker, Roger Brown	3:34

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[4]

• George Strait – lead vocals
• Matt Rollings – pianos
• Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitars, hi-string acoustic guitar
• Brent Mason – acoustic guitar, electric guitars
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar, tic tac bass
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle
• Steve Dorff – string arrangements (7, 8, 10)
• Liana Manis – backing vocals
• Curtis Young – backing vocals

Production

• Tony Brown – producer
• George Strait – producer
• Chuck Ainlay – recording, mixing, mastering
• Graham Lewis – sound engineer
• John Thomas II – sound engineer
• Craig White – sound engineer (6)
• Glenn Meadows – mastering
• Jessie Noble – project coordinator
• Jim Kemp – art direction
• Carmelo Roman – art direction, design
• Keith Carter – photography

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1993) Peak position Canadian Country Albums (RPM) 2 US Billboard 200[5] 5 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] 2

Year-end charts Chart (1993) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 34 Chart (1994) Position US Billboard 200[8] 76 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[9] 10

References

1. Easy Come Easy Go at AllMusic
2. Chicago Tribune review
3. "Entertainment Weekly Review". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
4. Easy Come, Easy Go (Media notes). George Strait. MCA Records. 1993. MCAD-10907.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
5. "George Strait Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
6. "George Strait Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
7. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1993". Billboard. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
8. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1994". Billboard. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
9. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1994". Billboard. Retrieved September 12, 2021.