Time & Tears

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I have been writing songs since I was a teenager. And with each song came the same dream of someday recording them. But while waiting year after year for that opportunity to come, the songs were stored in a folder tucked away in a drawer, with new songs being added occasionally through the years. There were songs about love, loneliness, depression, eating, drinking, unfaithfulness, joy, living, dying, bayous, houses, levees, pickup trucks, Time and Tears, and nearly everything else.

Then, in the spring of 2011, because of the terrible floods occurring across the nation, I decided to record and release a single song that I had written about flooding, “The Bayou”, and send it to radio stations across the South and Midwest. It was then that I met Travis Hatcher, an amazingly talented young production engineer with Henry Broussard at Broussard Studio. I was very impressed with his work on this song, in fact, so impressed that decided to record another song; then another, and after working together for a few months, Travis had brought 16 of my songs to life, and we had become close friends. All 16 songs are included on this album. But even with the release of this album, my folder is still full of songs, waiting to be recorded, and I’m still writing.

Thanks to God, my wife Janis, Travis, Henry and Aaron for making this album happen.

All of the songs contained in this album were written by Lynn Landry over a span of many years written during good times and bad. Contained in this collection are 12 country music songs along with BONUS songs with a Swamp Pop/Cajun theme:

  1. The Bayou (3:40)
  2. Good and Stoned (3:36)
  3. House of Loneliness (3:36)
  4. Without You (3:33)
  5. Fifty Miles (2:33)
  6. As Long As We Can Both Be Free (3:05)
  7. Don’t Open My Coffin (3:42)
  8. Me and A Bottle of Mad-Dog (2:53)
  9. Sparkle (3:26)
  10. The Only Difference Now (3:20)
  11. Daddy’s Girl (3:03)
  12. I’m Alright (3:29)

    BONUS: SWAMP POP/CAJUN SELECTIONS:
  13. Still Waiting (3:10)
  14. Behind the Levee (2:55)
  15. When the Dance Is Over (3:37)
  16. The Roux Song (2:58)

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