Tracy Lynn Byrd (born December 17, 1966)[1] is an American country music artist.

One of his friends coaxed him into singing a cover of Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" at a local mall recording studio.

[2] The owner of the studio was so impressed with his version that he entered Byrd into a local talent contest.

Although it and follow-up "Someone to Give My Love To" (previously a single in 1971 for Johnny Paycheck[4]) both missed Top 40, he broke through in 1993 with the Number One hit "Holdin' Heaven".

Although the album earned RIAA gold certification, its final single ("Why Don't That Telephone Ring") peaked at No. 39.

All four singles from the album reached Top Five: "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous", "Watermelon Crawl" (also his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, at No.

[5] MCA had not originally planned to issue this song as a single, until Byrd commented that it had been receiving favorable reactions when he sang it in concert.

[6] His third album, 1995's Love Lessons, showed a decline in both chart performance and physical sales,[2] despite still earning a gold certification.

Its title track, co-written by Richard Young of The Kentucky Headhunters and former MCA Records artist Marty Brown,[7] became the first single.

In 1999, Byrd then released a greatest-hits package entitled Keepers: Greatest Hits, which is certified gold.

Working with producer Billy Joe Walker, Jr., he released his sixth studio album, It's About Time, that year.

9 "Just Let Me Be in Love", and finishing off the album's single releases was its title track, "Ten Rounds with José Cuervo".

Also included on this album was the Rodney Crowell composition "Making Memories of Us", which would later be a Number One country hit in 2005 for Keith Urban.

Byrd's second greatest hits album was released in 2005 via BNA Records, a sister label to RCA.

This album reprised most of his RCA single releases, and included new recordings of "I'm from the Country" and "The Keeper of the Stars."

Also included on it were the new tracks "Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman", "Tiny Town" and "Johnny Cash".

In November 2019 Byrd released a live album, recorded in June 2019 with his band, The ByrdDawgs.

The DVD of Byrd's Billy Bob's Texas concert in June 2019, was released in November 2019.

For several years Byrd hosted an annual golfing/fishing/music event, "The Tracy Byrd Homecoming Weekend," later called "The Beaumont Boys Bash", in Southeast Texas to raise money for local charities, including the March of Dimes, the Children's Miracle Network, and culminating in the donation of money to fund the Tracy Byrd Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Center at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Beaumont.

[9] He also launched a line of spices, rubs, and marinades to go along with it, called "Tracy Byrd's Tiny Town Products"; a portion of these sales were donated to the Children's Miracle Network.

On December 28, 2012, he performed "Amazing Grace" at the memorial service for KFDM news anchor Bill Leger.