Released October 11, 2005 Label MCA Nashville | Length 47:13 Release date 11 October 2005 | |
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Recorded 2005 at The Sound Kitchen and House of Gain Nominations Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year Similar Living Hard, See If I Care, Alright Guy, Used Heart for Sale, Set You Free | ||
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Tough All Over is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Gary Allan, released in 2005 on the MCA Nashville label> it has been certified gold by the RIAA. Recorded after his wife's suicide, the album is more somber than his previous works, with several songs termed "excruciatingly sad."
Contents
Two songs from the album were released as singles: "Best I Ever Had", a cover of the 2001 Vertical Horizon song, and "Life Ain't Always Beautiful" . Both placed on the Billboard Top Ten Hot Country Songs charts.
Critical Acclaim
Rhapsody (online music service) ranked the album number 7 on its "Country’s Best Albums of the Decade" list. "Allan's sixth album was the first one released after his wife of three years committed suicide. This collection of haunting, heartbreaking songs chronicles his pain and, ultimately, his path back to living. Steeped in grief, Tough All Over is one of Allan's most consistent efforts to date, thanks in part to his gift of conveying emotions like regret, heartbreak and emptiness in a single, well-phrased line. Country Universe said the album was the 3rd best of the decade. Engine 145 country music blog list it number 7 on the "Top Country Albums of the Decade" list.
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Strings by the Nashville String Machine.
Songs
1Tough All Over3:20
2Best I Ever Had4:11
3I Just Got Back From Hell3:59