Enjoy the Ride (Sugarland album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Enjoy the Ride
Type = studio
Artist = Sugarland


Released = Start date|2006|11|7
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 42:25
Label = Mercury Nashville
Producer = Byron Gallimore
Sugarland
Reviews =*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:32jleaz84xh7 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/sugarland/albums/album/12189042/review/12451200/enjoy_the_ride link]
Last album = "Twice the Speed of Life"
(2004)
This album = "Enjoy the Ride"
(2006)
Next album = "Love on the Inside"
(2008)
Misc =Singles
Name = Enjoy the Ride
Type = Studio
Single 1 = Want To
Single 1 date = 2006
Single 2 = Settlin'
Single 2 date = 2007
Single 3 = Everyday America
Single 3 date = 2007
Single 4 = Stay
Single 4 date = 2007

"Enjoy the Ride" is the second album by the country duo Sugarland, released on November 7, 2006 on Mercury Nashville Records. The album is the first one released with Sugarland as a duo (comprising Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush), as former member Kristen Hall had departed earlier in 2006.

The album debuted at #4 on the US Billboard 200 and at #2 on the US Country Album Chart, selling 211,000 copies in its first week; [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003408037 "'NOW 23' Trumps Groban, Urban, Sugarland At No. 1"] , Billboard.com, November 15, 2006.] these were also its peak positions on the two charts. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=628400&model.vnuAlbumId=800764 Artist chart history for Sugarland (albums)] , Billboard.com.] Also in December, after only five weeks in release, the RIAA certified "Enjoy the Ride" platinum, for shipments of 1 million copies. As of September 6, 2008, the album has sold 2,412,139 copies in the US. [ [http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=53071&start=25 Billboard Top 200] ]

The album produced four chart singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts, all of which were Top Ten hits. "Want To" and "Settlin'" (respectively the first and second singles) were both Number One hits, with the former being the first Number One on the US Country chart of Sugarland's career. "Everyday America" was a #9 country hit, while "Stay" peaked at #2.

Track listing

# "Settlin'" (Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush, Tim Owens) – 3:27
# "County Line" (Nettles, Bush, Lisa Carver) – 2:50
# "Want To" (Nettles, Bush, Bobby Pinson) – 3:35
# "Everyday America" (Nettles, Bush, Carver) – 3:52
# "Happy Ending" (Nettles, Bush, Owens) – 5:16
# "These Are the Days" (Nettles, Bush, Carver) – 3:49
# "One Blue Sky" (Nettles, Bush, Carver) – 4:17
# "April Showers" (Nettles, Bush, Jeff Cohen) – 3:24
# "Mean Girls" (Nettles, Bush, Owens) – 2:40
# "Stay" (Nettles) – 4:44
# "Sugarland" (Bush, Kristen Hall, Vanessa Olivarez) – 4:24

Personnel

ugarland

*Kristian Bush - lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
*Jennifer Nettles – lead vocals, acoustic guitar

Additional personnel

*Thad Beaty - electric guitar
*Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
*Tom Bukovac - electric guitar, synthesizer
*Brandon Bush - organ, clavinet, drum loops, percussion
*Paul Bushnell - bass guitar
*Annie Clements – bass guitar, background vocals
*Dan Dugmore - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, Dobro
*Shannon Forrest - drums, percussion, cymbals
*Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
*Rob Hajacos - fiddle
*Tony Harrell - organ, accordion, Mellotron, harmonium, piano, synthesizer
*Jarrod Johnson - drums
*Tim Lauer - accordion
*Greg Morrow - drums, percussion, drum loops
*Brad Paisley - electric guitar (track 9)
*Scott Patton - electric guitar
*Glenn Worf - bass guitar

ingles

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