It's What I Do

It's What I Do
It's What I Do
Studio album by Billy Dean
Released	April 2, 1996
Studio	Dark Horse (Franklin, Tennessee); Javelina (Nashville, Tennessee); Woodland (Nashville, Tennessee);
Genre	Country
Length	37:15
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Tom Shapiro; Nancy H. Williams
Billy Dean chronology
Singles from It's What I Do
	"It's What I Do"; Released: January 8, 1996; "That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me"; Released: June 10, 1996; "I Wouldn't Be a Man"; Released: October 21, 1996;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link

It's What I Do is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Billy Dean. It was his first album since Men'll Be Boys two years previous. This was also his first release for Capitol Records Nashville, as the Nashville division of Liberty Records had been merged into Capitol. The album produced three singles: the title track at #5, followed by "That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me" at #4 and "I Wouldn't Be a Man" at #45. (The latter was originally a Top Ten country hit for Don Williams, in 1987.) The album also reunited him with Tom Shapiro, who had co-produced his first two albums.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"It's What I Do"	Tom Shapiro, Chuck Jones	3:22
2.	"That Girl's Been Spyin' on Me"	Shapiro, Max T. Barnes	3:44
3.	"In the Name of Love"	Skip Ewing, Doug Stone	3:39
4.	"Down to Your Last One More"	Gary Burr	3:13
5.	"I Wouldn't Be a Man"	Mike Reid, Rory Bourke	4:24
6.	"When Our Backs Are Against the Wall"	Billy Dean, Tim Nichols	4:01
7.	"Play Something We Can Dance To"	Dean, Dennis Morgan	4:04
8.	"The Mountain Moved"	Bob Regan, George Teren	2:53
9.	"Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time"	Kostas, Bobby Boyd, Don Mealer	3:14
10.	"Leavin' Line"	Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, Pat Bunch	4:41

Personnel

Eddie Bayers – drums, percussion
Bruce Bouton – lap steel guitar
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
Linda Davis – background vocals
Billy Dean – lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
Thom Flora – background vocals
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar, Dobro
Terry McMillan – shaker, tambourine, cowbell, harmonica
Steve Nathan – keyboards
Brent Rowan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Joe Spivey – fiddle, mandolin
Nicol Sponberg – background vocals
Tina Clark-Vallejo – background vocals
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Curtis Wright – background vocals
Curtis Young – background vocals
Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle

Synthesizer strings performed by Carl Marsh, arranged by Carl Marsh and Tom Shapiro.

Chart performance

Chart (1996)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	18
U.S. Billboard 200	143

References

Allmusic (see infobox)
It's What I Do (CD liner notes). Billy Dean. Nashville, Tennessee: Capitol Records Nashville. 1996. 30525.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)