The Essential Foster and Lloyd is a compilation album released by RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

 in 1996. It features songs from Foster & Lloyd

Foster & Lloyd

Foster & Lloyd is an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd . Founded in 1986, the duo recorded three albums for RCA Records, in addition to charting nine singles on the Billboard country charts. The highest-peaking of these was their debut single...

's three studio albums released between 1987 and 1990 presented in chronological order. Two previously unreleased tracks were included, including a rendition of "Don't Go Out," which the duo wrote for Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

 and T. Graham Brown

T. Graham Brown

Anthony "T." Graham Brown is an American country music artist. Active since 1986, Brown has recorded a total of thirteen studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts...

. This duet version went to #6 on the country charts in 1990.

Track listing

• All tracks written by Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd unless otherwise noted

1. "Crazy Over You" - 4:33
2. "What Do You Want from Me This Time?" - 3:16
3. "Sure Thing" - 3:19
4. "Texas in 1880" (Foster) - 3:53
5. "Don't Go Out with Him" - 3:00
   • previously unreleased
6. "You Can Come Cryin' to Me" (Foster) - 4:49
7. "Faster and Louder" - 2:34
8. "Fair Shake" (Guy Clark
   Guy Clark
   Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
   
   , Foster, Lloyd) - 3:26
9. "She Knows What She Wants" - 3:41
10. "Happy for Awhile" – 4:07
11. "Fat Lady Sings" - 4:36
12. "After I'm Gone" - 3:10
13. "Suzette" (Lloyd) - 2:43
14. "Before The Heartache Rolls In" - 3:49
15. "Is It Love" - 2:38
16. "Can't Have Nothin'" - 3:24
17. "All Said and Done" (Foster, Vince Gill
    Vince Gill
    Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
    
    , Lloyd) - 3:23
18. "White Train" (Peter Holsapple
    Peter Holsapple
    Peter Holsapple formed, along with Chris Stamey, the singing, songwriting, and guitar-playing core of the dB's, a jangle-pop band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He became the band's principal songwriter and singer after Stamey's departure. The dB's were at the forefront of the guitar bands...
    
    ) - 4:34
    • previously unreleased
19. "Whoa" - 2:41