The Love Songs (Clint Black album)
The Love Songs is a 2007 (see 2007 in music) album by country singer Clint Black. It consists of newly recorded versions of many of his love songs along with a cover version of Jim Croce's "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".
According to Black, many of the songs remain true to the original version while a few get a slight update. "I wanted to do a record that's not just a reissue of hits," Black said. "Sometimes when I go back and revisit my older recordings, I find little things that, in hindsight, I feel I could improve on just a bit—some new twist that might make it just a little bit better. It might be a slight change in the arrangement, or the way vocals are layered. And there were also times when I listened to a particular recording and felt there really wasn't a change that would make it better."
The album cover was designed by Peter Max and depicts Black with wife Lisa Hartman Black.
Track listing
- "When I Said I Do" (Black) – 4:33
- "You Made Me Feel" (Black, Michael McDonald) – 4:33
- "Something That We Do" (Black, Skip Ewing) – 4:38
- "Our Kind of Love" (Black, Shake Russell) – 4:06
- "My Imagination" (Black, Matt Rollings) – 3:53
- "Like the Rain" (Black, Hayden Nicholas) – 4:15
- "You Know It All" (Black, Steve Wariner) – 4:24
- "That Something in My Life" (Black, Kostas) – 2:55
- "One Emotion" (Black, Nicholas) – 2:51
- "Half the Man" (Black, Nicholas) – 3:04
- "Easy for Me to Say" (Black, Nicholas) – 5:33
- duet with Lisa Hartman Black
- "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" (Jim Croce) – 2:34
Personnel
Band
- Clint Black—acoustic guitar, harmonica, percussion, electric guitar, vocals, background vocals, bass harp
- Hayden Nicholas—electric guitar
- Bryan Austin—acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Dane Bryant—piano, keyboards, background vocals
- Lenny Castro—percussion
- Perry Coleman—background vocals
- Steve Dorff—conductor, orchestral arrangements
- Stuart Duncan—fiddle, mandolin
- Paul Franklin—steel guitar
- Dick Gay—drums
- Carl Gorodetzky—concert master
- Lisa Hartman-Black—vocals, background vocals
- Wes Hightower—background vocals
- Carolyn Dawn Johnson—vocals
- Abraham Laboriel—bass guitar
- Nashville String Machine—orchestra
- Dean Parks—acoustic guitar
- Jeff Peterson—steel guitar
- John "4 Daddman" Robinson—drums
- Matt Rollings—grand piano
- Steve Wariner—electric guitar, background vocals
- Jake Willemain—bass guitar
- Martin Young—acoustic guitar
Production
Chart positions
From Billboard.
Album
| Year |
Chart |
Position |
| 2007 |
Top Country Albums |
37 |
| 2007 |
Top Independent Albums |
24 |
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