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" 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.
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, with elements of honky-tonk and bluegrass.Personnel
- 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
- Michael Omartian – string arrangements, string conductor
- Bergen White – string arrangements
- 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 – 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
Year-end charts
| Chart | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 172 |
| US Top Country Albums | 19 |