5th Gear (album)
5th Gear is the fifth studio album by country singer Brad Paisley. It was released June 19, 2007, and debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of about 197,000 copies.[11] On April 9, 2008, 5th Gear was certified platinum by the RIAA.[12]
| 5th Gear | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | June 19, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006-2007 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 67:48 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville | |||
| Producer | Frank Rogers | |||
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| Singles from 5th Gear | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| About.com |   |
| Allmusic |  |
| BBC Music | (average)[3] |
| Country Weekly | (favorable)[4] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[5] |
| The Phoenix | |
| Plugged In | (unfavorable)[7] |
| Christgau's Consumer Guide |  |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant | |
The album's first four singles — "Ticks", "Online", "Letter to Me", and "I'm Still a Guy" — all reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. In June 2008, a re-recording of "Waitin' on a Woman", a song which Paisley originally recorded for his 2005 album Time Well Wasted, was added as a bonus track to this album. This re-edited version was released in June 2008 as the album's fifth single. For the chart week of September 20, 2008, the song has become his twelfth number-one single and his eighth straight number-one hit. When pre-ordered through iTunes, another bonus track, "You Love Me So Good", was included.
In 2009, NPR picked the album as one of "The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings."[13]
Blaine Larsen later released a rendition of "It Did" in 2009.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "All I Wanted Was a Car" | Brad Paisley, Chris DuBois, Kelley Lovelace | 4:05 |
| 2. | "Ticks" | Paisley, Tim Owens, Lovelace | 4:33 |
| 3. | "Online" | Paisley, DuBois, Lovelace | 4:56 |
| 4. | "Letter to Me" | Paisley | 4:41 |
| 5. | "I'm Still a Guy" | Paisley, Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller | 4:11 |
| 6. | "Some Mistakes" | Paisley, Owens | 4:57 |
| 7. | "It Did" | Jim Collins, Marv Green | 3:55 |
| 8. | "Mr. Policeman" | Paisley, Jim Beavers, DuBois | 4:15 |
| 9. | "If Love Was a Plane" | Paisley | 3:56 |
| 10. | "Oh Love" (duet with Carrie Underwood) | Hillary Lindsey, Aimee Mayo, Gordie Sampson | 4:11 |
| 11. | "Better Than This" | DuBois, David Lee Murphy, Trent Willmon | 3:12 |
| 12. | "With You, Without You" | Paisley, Casey Beathard, DuBois | 4:54 |
| 13. | "Previously" (feat. the Kung Pao Buckaroos) | 0:55 | |
| 14. | "Bigger Fish to Fry" (feat. the Kung Pao Buckaroos) | Steve Bogard, Jeff Stevens | 4:25 |
| 15. | "When We All Get to Heaven" | Eliza Hewitt, Emily Wilson | 3:54 |
| 16. | "Throttleneck" (instrumental) | Paisley, Frank Rogers, Ben Sesar | 5:16 |
| 17. | "Outtake 1" (hidden track) | 0:26 | |
| 18. | "Outtake 2" (hidden track) | 0:46 | |
| 19. | "Waitin' on a Woman" (available on later releases only[14]) | Don Sampson, Wynn Varble | 5:03 |
| Total length: | 67:48 | ||
"Mr. Policeman" incorporates the chorus of "In the Jailhouse Now" at its end, with new lyrics to fit the rest of the song.
Personnel
- Musicians
- Tom Baldrica – tuba on "Online"
- Ron Block – banjo
- Jim "Moose" Brown – B-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ, piano on "When We All Get to Heaven"
- Randle Currie – steel guitar
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar, upright bass
- Vicki Hampton – background vocals
- Wes Hightower – background vocals
- Gary Hooker – electric guitar, baritone guitar, 12 string guitar
- Aubrey Haynie – fiddle on "It Did" and "Bigger Fish to Fry", fiddle and mandolin on "Oh Love", mandolin on "When We All Get to Heaven"
- Mike Johnson – Dobro
- Tim Lauer – keyboards
- Kenny Lewis – additional bass on "Throttleneck"
- Kendal Marcy – banjo on "Mr. Policeman" and "Throttleneck"
- Gordon Mote – piano, clavinet, keyboards, music box on "I'm Still a Guy"
- Brad Paisley – lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, Tic tac bass
- Ben Sesar – drums
- Bryan Sutton – mandolin, banjo on "Some Mistakes", acoustic guitar on "Bigger Fish to Fry"
- Carrie Underwood – background vocals
- Justin Williamson – fiddle, mandolin
- Brentwood High School Band
- Marching band at the end of Online
- Kung Pao Buckaroos
- Little Jimmy Dickens, Bill Anderson, and Vince Gill (sitting in for George Jones)
Chart performance
Album
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 3 |
| Canadian Albums Chart | 5 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||
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| US Country | US | US Pop |
CAN | ||
| 2007 | "Ticks" | 1 | 40 | 48 | 33 |
| "Online" | 1 | 39 | 89 | 50 | |
| "Letter to Me" | 1 | 40 | 81 | 51 | |
| 2008 | "I'm Still a Guy" | 1 | 33 | 66 | 54 |
| "Waitin' on a Woman" | 1 | 44 | — | 59 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
References
- About.com review
- Allmusic review
- BBC Music review
- Country Weekly review
- Entertainment Weekly review
- The Phoenix review
- Plugged In review
- Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
- "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2007-07-20.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- Slant review
- Katie Hasty, "Bon Jovi Scores First No. 1 Album Since 1988", Billboard.com, June 27, 2007.
- RIAA - Gold & Platinum
- "The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- Walmart.com: 5th Gear, Brad Paisley
- "American album certifications – Brad Paisley – 5th Gear". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.