5th Gear (album)
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| Studio album by Brad Paisley | ||||
| 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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| Source | Rating |
| About.com |   [1] |
| Allmusic |  [2] |
| BBC Music | (average)[3] |
| Country Weekly | (favorable)[4] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[5] |
| The Phoenix | [6] |
| Plugged In | (unfavorable)[7] |
| Robert Christgau |  [8] |
| Rolling Stone | [9] |
| Slant | [10] |
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]
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.
Contents
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 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[13]) | Don Sampson, Wynn Varble | 5:03 |
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Total length:
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67:48 | ||
Personnel
Musicians
- Brad Paisley – lead vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar
- 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
- Wes Hightower – background vocals
- Gary Hooker – rhythm 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"
- Ben Sesar – drums
- Bryan Sutton – mandolin, banjo on "Some Mistakes", acoustic guitar on "Bigger Fish to Fry"
- 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |||||
Certifications
| Region | Certification |
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| United States (RIAA)[14] | Platinum |
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 at the Wayback Machine (archived October 1, 2007)
- ↑ Slant review
- ↑ Katie Hasty, "Bon Jovi Scores First No. 1 Album Since 1988", Billboard.com, June 27, 2007.
- ↑ RIAA - Gold & Platinum
- ↑ Walmart.com: 5th Gear, Brad Paisley
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH
| Preceded by | Top Country Albums number-one album July 7 – August 3, 2007 |
Succeeded by Taylor Swift by Taylor Swift |
