The First Step

"The First Step"
Single by Tracy Byrd
from the album No Ordinary Man
B-side	"No Ordinary Man"
Released	November 15, 1994
Format	CD single
Recorded	1994
Genre	Country
Length	2:24
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Doug Crider, Verlon Thompson
Producer(s)	Jerry Crutchfield
Tracy Byrd singles chronology
"Watermelon Crawl" (1994) "The First Step" (1994) "The Keeper of the Stars" (1995)
"Watermelon Crawl" (1994) "The First Step" (1994) "The Keeper of the Stars" (1995)

"The First Step" is a song written by Doug Crider and Verlon Thompson, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Byrd. It was released in November 1994 as the third single from the album No Ordinary Man. The song reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that the song continues Byrd's pattern of two-step cliches, but that he manages to "inject more than enough spirit to get this one over." Price concludes that Byrd was "born to sing this stuff."

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