Thirty Miles West

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Thirty Miles West
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Studio album by Alan Jackson
Released June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05)
Recorded 2011-2012
Genre Country
Length 52:21
Label Alan's Country Records
EMI Nashville
Producer Keith Stegall[1]
Alan Jackson chronology
34 Number Ones
(2010)34 Number Ones2010
Thirty Miles West
(2012)
Playlist: The Very Best of Alan Jackson
(2012)Playlist: The Very Best of Alan Jackson2012
Singles from Thirty Miles West
  1. "Long Way to Go"
    Released: June 27, 2011
  2. "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore"
    Released: January 16, 2012
  3. "You Go Your Way"
    Released: August 27, 2012

Thirty Miles West is the fourteenth 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]

Reception

Critical

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com 3.5/5 stars[7]
Allmusic 4/5 stars[8]
Country Weekly (positive)[9]
Los Angeles Times 3/4 stars[10]
The New York Times (average)[11]
The Washington Post (average)[12]

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]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
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"   Jay Knowles, Adam Wright 3:42
6. "Look Her in the Eye and Lie"   Jackson 3:48
7. "Dixie Highway" (with Zac Brown) Jackson 7:24
8. "She Don't Get High"   Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde, Kylie Sackley 4:12
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 Bringing Me Down"   Al Anderson, Shawn Camp 3:04
13. "When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey)"   Jackson 4:04
Total length:
52:21

Personnel

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[14] 6
Canadian Albums Chart[15] 4
German Newcomer Chart[16] 17
Norwegian Albums Chart[14] 14
Swedish Albums Chart[14] 45
UK Country Albums Chart[17] 3
US Billboard 200[15] 2
US Billboard Top Country Albums[15] 1

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
[18]
US Country Airplay
[19]
US Bubbling
[20]
2011 "Long Way to Go" 24 20
2012 "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" 25 8
"You Go Your Way" 41 39
"—" denotes releases that did not chart
Preceded by Top Country Albums number-one album
June 23, 2012
Succeeded by
Punching Bag by Josh Turner

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