Editing Collin Raye (section)

===2000–2005===
Raye released two albums in 2000: ''[[Counting Sheep (album)|Counting Sheep]]'', an album consisting of lullabies for his children, and ''[[Tracks (Collin Raye album)|Tracks]]''. The first single release from ''Tracks'', "[[Couldn't Last a Moment]]", was a top 5 hit on the country charts. "Tired of Loving This Way", which followed, was a duet with singer and actress [[Bobbie Eakes]]. Although it was Raye's first single to miss the Top 40 entirely, it provided Eakes with her only appearance on the country music charts.<ref name="tracks">{{cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1473140/20030623/raye_collin.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617152520/http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1473140/20030623/raye_collin.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 17, 2009 |title=Collin Raye Makes "Tracks" to Turn Over a New Leaf |access-date=2007-11-02 |date=2000-05-08 |work=CMT.com}}</ref> "She's All That" and "You Still Take Me There" were also released, but they failed to make top 40 as well.<ref name="whitburn"/>

''[[Can't Back Down]]'', Raye's last album for Epic, was released in 2001. Neither of the album's two singles entered Top 40 on the country music charts. Because of a conflict with his label, Raye asked out of his contract that year.<ref name="twenty"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1451572/20011219/raye_collin.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617152408/http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1451572/20011219/raye_collin.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 17, 2009 |title=Raye, Epic Parting Ways |access-date=2007-11-02 |date=2001-12-19 |work=CMT.com}}</ref> Although he did not have a record label at the time, he entered the Adult Contemporary charts for the third time in 2003, as a duet partner on Jim Brickman's single "Peace (Where the Heart Is)". Raye released a live album, ''Live at Billy Bob's Texas'', in 2004, and a promotional single titled "World History 101" in 2005.<ref name="deseret">{{cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20040824/ai_n11475640 |title=Collin Raye delights Orem audience |access-date=2007-11-02 |last=Thunell |first=Peter |date=2004-08-24 |work=[[Deseret News]] |publisher=FindArticles.com}}</ref>