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]
Country Standard Time	Favorable[4]

Carrying Your Love with Me is the seventeenth studio album by the Americancountry music artistGeorge Strait, released in 1997. It was released byMCA Nashville and it produced four singles for Strait on theBillboard 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 aVern Gosdin song) reached #3. Eddie Kilgallon, then a member of the bandRicochet, co-wrote "One Night at a Time". The album has been certified 3×Multi-Platinum by theRIAA for shipping three million copies in the U.S. "Carrying Your Love with Me" was nominated forBest Country Album at the1998 Grammy Awards.

The song "She'll Leave You with a Smile" is not to be confused withanother song with the same name which Strait recorded on his 2001 albumThe 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.

Carrying Your Love with Me has been described as aneotraditional country album,^[4][5] with elements ofhonky-tonk andbluegrass.^[6]

• George Strait – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
• 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

• 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

• 1997 albums
• George Strait albums
• MCA Records albums
• Albums produced by Tony Brown (record producer)

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