2012 studio album by Alan Jackson
Thirty Miles West is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson .[ 2] It was released on June 5, 2012, and is Jackson's first album on his own Alan's Country Records in a joint venture with EMI Nashville .[ 3] The album includes the singles "Long Way to Go ," "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore " and "You Go Your Way ."[ 4]
The album's title refers to a song about a stretch of the Dixie Highway near Jackson's hometown of Newnan, Georgia .[ 5] The song, "Dixie Highway," is a duet with Zac Brown .[ 6]
Upon its release, Thirty Miles West received generally positive reviews from most music critics.[ 13] At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 4 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[ 13]
Title Writer(s) 1. "Gonna Come Back as a Country Song" Terry McBride , Chris Stapleton 3:02 2. "You Go Your Way " Troy Jones, David Lee, Tony Lane 3:18 3. "Everything but the Wings" Alan Jackson 4:44 4. "Talk Is Cheap" Guy Clark , Stapleton, Morgane Hayes 3:48 5. "So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore" Jackson 3:42 6. "Look Her in the Eye and Lie" Jay Knowles, Adam Wright 3:48 7. "Dixie Highway" (with Zac Brown ) Jackson 7:24 8. "She Don't Get High" Clint Daniels , Jeff Hyde, Kylie Sackley4:12 9. "Her Life's a Song" Jackson 4:25 10. "Nothin' Fancy" Knowles, Wright 3:12 11. "Long Way to Go " Jackson 3:39 12. "Life Keeps Bringin' Me Down" Al Anderson , Shawn Camp 3:04 13. "When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey)" Jackson 4:04 Total length: 52:21
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^ Lewis, Randy (June 6, 2012). "Album review: Alan Jackson's 'Thirty Miles West' " . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved April 26, 2013 .
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^ a b "Critic Reviews for Thirty Miles West - Metacritic" . Metacritic . Retrieved June 6, 2012 .
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