Out of My Bones

"Out of My Bones"
Single by Randy Travis
from the album You and You Alone
B-side	"Brinks Truck"
Released	March 2, 1998
Format	CD single, 7" 45 RPM
Recorded	1998
Genre	Country
Length	2:45
Label	DreamWorks 59007
Writer(s)	Gary Burr, Robin Lerner, Sharon Vaughn
Producer	James Stroud, Byron Gallimore, Randy Travis
Randy Travis singles chronology
"Price to Pay" (1997) "Out of My Bones" (1998) "The Hole" (1998)

"Out of My Bones" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis. It was released in March 1998 as the lead-off single from his 1998 CD, You and You Alone, it peaked at number two on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, while it was a number-one hit in Canada. It was written by Gary Burr, Robin Lerner, and Sharon Vaughn.

Content

The narrator is having a hard time forgetting a lost love. He describes what he can do to get her memory "out of his bones" including wishing he had amnesia.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling his vocal performance "powerful" and saying that the production is "full but not overblown." She goes on to say that the record should "remind programmers that the warmth and feeling in Travis' country baritone are among the format's most precious treasures."^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	64
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

Preceded by "Two Piña Coladas" by Garth Brooks

RPM Country Tracks number-one single June 1, 1998

Succeeded by "I'm from the Country" by Tracy Byrd

References

1. ^ Billboard, March 7, 1998