After doing time as a knock-around honky-tonker on his Arkansas home turf, Tracy Lawrence made the move to Music City in 1990, signing with Atlantic a year later and proceeding to become one of the biggest country artists of the decade. Like a lot of his peers at the time, Lawrence was able to take his trad-country influences and turn them into something roots-conscious but undeniably modern. It turned out to be a perfect fit for a new era of country, and Lawrence racked up multi-platinum album sales and tons of No. 1 singles along the way.