Recorded 2011-2012 | Length 52:21 Release date 5 June 2012 Label EMI | |
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Released June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05) Similar Alan Jackson albums, Country music albums | ||
Thirty Miles West is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. 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. The album includes the singles "Long Way to Go," "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" and "You Go Your Way."
Contents
The album's title refers to a song about a stretch of the Dixie Highway near Jackson's hometown of Newnan, Georgia. The song, "Dixie Highway," is a duet with Zac Brown.
Critical
Upon its release, Thirty Miles West received generally positive reviews from most music critics. 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".
Personnel
Songs
1Gonna Come Back as a Country Song3:02
2You Go Your Way3:18
3Everything But The Wings4:44