Tribute to Tradition

"Same Old Train", the only song on the album which is not a cover, charted at number 59 on Billboard Hot Country Songs in 1998.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2017|page=316|isbn=978-0-89820-229-8}} The song won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.{{cite web | url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/41st-annual-grammy-awards | title=41st Annual Grammy Awards | work=grammy.com | accessdate=June 5, 2022}}

Joe Diffie's rendition of Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors" also charted at number 64,Whitburn, pp. 109-110 and Doug Stone's cover of Steve Wariner's "Gone Out of My Mind" peaked at number 48.Whitburn, p. 348 The album was intended as a fundraiser for a retirement center in Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tribute-to-tradition-mw0000600042 | title=Tribute to Tradition | publisher=AllMusic | accessdate=June 5, 2022 | author=Jana Pendragon}}

Jana Pendragon of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars. Although she criticized Joe Diffie and Collin Raye's vocal performance on "Honky Tonk Heroes Like Me" and Mary Chapin Carpenter's on "Oh Lonesome Me", she praised the album for the variety of artists and thought that "Same Old Train" was a "grand finale". Joel Bernstein of Country Standard Time gave the album a mostly positive review, as he thought the album had potential to introduce country music standards to a more contemporary audience.{{cite web | url=https://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=2810 | title=Tribute to Tradition review | publisher=Country Standard Time | accessdate=June 5, 2022 | author=Joel Bernstein}}

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| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Stand by Your Man

| writer1 = {{Hlist|Billy Sherrill|Tammy Wynette}}

| note1 = The Chicks

| extra1 = Blake Chancey, Paul Worley

| length1 = 3:21

| title2 = Mama Tried

| writer2 = Merle Haggard

| note2 = Randy Travis

| extra2 = James Stroud, Travis

| length2 = 2:15

| title3 = Wine, Women, and Song

| writer3 = Betty Sue Perry

| note3 = Patty Loveless

| extra3 = Vince Gill

| length3 = 2:32

| title4 = I Never Go Around Mirrors

| writer4 = {{hlist|Lefty Frizzell|Sanger D. Shafer}}

| note4 = Trace Adkins

| extra4 = Adkins

| length4 = 4:46

| title5 = Oh Lonesome Me

| writer5 = Don Gibson

| note5 = Mary Chapin Carpenter

| extra5 = Chet Atkins

| length5 = 3:37

| title6 = Behind Closed Doors

| writer6 = Kenny O'Dell

| note6 = Joe Diffie

| extra6 = Diffie, Johnny Slate

| length6 = 3:10

| title7 = She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)

| writer7 = Wayne Carson

| note7 = Wade Hayes

| extra7 = Don Cook

| length7 = 3:34

| title8 = 'Til I Can Make It on My Own

| writer8 = {{hlist|Sherrill|Wynette|George Richey}}

| note8 = Martina McBride

| extra8 = Worley, McBride

| length8 = 3:10

| title9 = Cold, Cold Heart

| writer9 = Hank Williams

| note9 = Collin Raye

| extra9 = Worley, Raye, Billy Joe Walker Jr.

| length9 = 3:22

| title10 = The Three Bells

| writer10 = {{hlist|Jean Villard|Bert Reisfeld}}

| note10 = Alison Krauss

| extra10 = Atkins

| length10 = 4:11

| title11 = City Lights

| writer11 = Bill Anderson

| note11 = Rick Trevino

|extra11 = Doug Johnson, Steve Buckingham

| length11 = 2:44

| title12 = Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)

| writer12 = Billy Joe Shaver

| note12 = Joe Diffie, Collin Raye

| extra12 = Raye, Diffie

| length12 = 3:30

| title13 = Gone Out of My Mind

| writer13 = {{Hlist|Bob Morrison|Gene Dobbins|Michael Huffman}}

| note13 = Doug Stone

| extra13 = Jerry Kennedy, John Guess

| length13 = 3:26

| title14 = Same Old Train

| writer14 = Stuart

| note14 = Clint Black, Joe Diffie, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Pam Tillis, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakam

| extra14 = Stuart

| length14 = 6:00

| total_length =49:38

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