''Missing Years'' is the fifth studio album by the American

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band

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. Released in 2007 on Montage Music Group, it is the band's first studio album for that label, and its first new studio album since 1997's ''

''. It is also the first studio album not to feature former co-lead vocalists

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and Tim Rushlow. Here,

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ist Porter Howell serves as lead vocalist, and the other three remaining members (

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Del Gray,

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ist Dwayne O'Brien, and

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ist Duane Propes) are retained. This album produced three singles in "Your Woman", the title track, and "Party Life". While neither "Your Woman" nor "Party Life" charted, "Missing Years" reached number 45 on the

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charts in 2007, giving the band its first chart single in ten years.

Track listing

#"Gotta Get Me Down Home" (Quinn Loggins) - 3:03 #"Missing Years" (Del Gray, Porter Howell, Dwayne O'Brien) - 4:12 #"Rebel" (Gray, Howell, Templeton Thompson) - 3:46 #"Knees" ( Marc Beeson, Don Pfrimmer) - 3:48 #"A Reason" (Gray, Howell) - 4:16 #"Party Life" (Gray, Howell, O'Brien) - 2:55 #"Texas 101" (Howell, Johnny Slate, Paul Jefferson) - 4:00 #"So Long" (Anthony Smith, Liz Hengber, James Dean Hicks) - 4:18 #"When He's Gone" (Gray, Howell, O'Brien) - 4:04 #"You Ain't Seen Me Lately" (Gray, Howell, O'Brien) - 3:46 #"Your Blues" (

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, Brett James) - 3:38 #"Your Woman" (Jon McElroy, Del Gray) - 3:49

Personnel

Little Texas

*Del Gray – drums *Porter Howell – electric guitar, lead vocals *Dwayne O'Brien – acoustic guitar, background vocals *Duane Propes – bass guitar, background vocals

Additional musicians

*Eric Darken – box, percussion *

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– acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar *Russ Pahl – acoustic guitar, steel guitar *Strings by the Nashville String Machine, arranged by Kris Wilkinson.

References

{{Authority control 2007 albums Little Texas (band) albums Montage Music Group albums