Let It Go (Tim McGraw album)

Infobox Album
Name = Let It Go
Type = studio
Artist = Tim McGraw


Released = Start date|2007|03|27
Genre = Country
Length = 52:39
Label = Curb
Producer = Byron Gallimore
Tim McGraw
Darran Smith
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:e1se4j179wal link]
Last album = ""
(2006)
This album = "Let It Go"
(2007)
Next album = ""
(2008)

"Let It Go" is the eleventh album from Tim McGraw. The album, released on March 27, 2007, is his first studio album in two and a half years. "Let It Go" debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 with sales of 325,000. The album has produced five Top 20 chart singles on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts, including one Number One; one of these five songs was included only on later issues of the album.

Content

The first single from the album, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (written by Big Kenny of Big & Rich), reached the top of the country charts in early 2007, giving McGraw his first Number One hit since "Back When" in late 2004. Following "Last Dollar" was a #7 country hit in "I Need You", a duet with wife Faith Hill. Shortly after the latter was released, McGraw charted with a live rendition of the song "If You're Reading This", which McGraw performed live at the Academy of Country Music awards in May 2007. A month after this song entered the charts, the album was re-issued with "If You're Reading This" appended to the track listing, and that song was officially issued as a single, reaching #3 on the country charts.

"If You're Reading This" was followed in late 2007 by "Suspicions", a cover of the Eddie Rabbitt Number One hit from 1979. This cover became the second Top 40 hit of McGraw's career to miss Top Ten, peaking at #12 on Hot Country Songs. Issued as the fifth single was "Kristofferson", which reached Top 20 in May 2008, and the title track was issued as the sixth single.

Track listing

# "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (William Kenny Alphin) – 4:30
# "I'm Workin'" (Darrell Scott, Lori McKenna) – 3:40
# "Let It Go" (Aimee Mayo, William C. Luther, Tom Douglas) – 3:45
# "Whiskey and You" (Chris Stapleton, Lee Thomas Miller) – 3:47
# "Suspicions" (David Malloy, Eddie Rabbitt, Even Stevens, Randy McCormick) – 5:16
# "Kristofferson" (Anthony Smith, Reed Nielsen) – 3:23
# "Put Your Loving on Me" (Hillary Lindsey, Luke Laird) – 3:34
# "Nothin' to Die For" (Craig Wiseman, Lee Thomas Miller) – 4:13
# "Between the River and Me" (Brad Warren, Brett Warren, Brett Beavers) – 3:53
# "Train #10" (Tim McGraw, Brad Warren, Brett Warren) – 3:58
# "I Need You" (David Lee, Tony Lane) – 4:08
#*duet with Faith Hill
# "Comin' Home" (Rivers Rutherford, Steve McEwan) – 4:06
# "Shotgun Rider" (Smith, Jeffrey Steele, Sherrié Austin) – 4:21
#*duet with Faith Hill
# "If You're Reading This" (McGraw, Brad Warren, Brett Warren) – 4:12
#*Live recording from 2007 Academy of Country Music awards
#*Only available on mid-2007 re-issues of album

Personnel

*Dean Brown - fiddle, mandolin
*David Dunkley - percussion
*Denny Hemingson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, Dobro, baritone guitar, slide guitar
*John Marcus - bass guitar
*Billy Mason - drums, percussion
*Jeff McMahon - piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer
*Bob Miner - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo
*Darran Smith - electric guitar, acoustic guitar

References

succession box
before = "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"
by Modest Mouse
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = April 8 2007 - April 14 2007
after = "Now 24" by Various artists