Like Red on a Rose
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| Studio album by Alan Jackson | ||||
| Released | September 26, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 49:30 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville | |||
| Producer | Alison Krauss | |||
| Alan Jackson chronology | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (83/100) [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| About.com |   [2] |
| Allmusic |  [3] |
| Country Weekly | (average) [4] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− [5] |
| The Music Box | [6] |
| No Depression | (mixed) [7] |
| People | [8] |
| PopMatters | [9] |
| Slant | [10] |
| Stylus Magazine | A− [11] |
| The Village Voice | (favorable) [12] |
| Yahoo! Music | (favorable) [13] |
Like Red on a Rose is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on September 26, 2006. The album produced two singles, the title track and "A Woman's Love", which respectively reached numbers 15 and 5 on the Hot Country Songs charts.
Unlike all of Jackson's previous albums, where Keith Stegall served as producer, this album was produced by singer Alison Krauss, who also selected the songs. "A Woman's Love", a re-recording of a song previously included on Jackson's 1998 High Mileage album, was also the only song on this album that Jackson wrote.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |
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| 1. | "Anywhere on Earth You Are" | Tim Krekel, Danny O'Keefe | 4:13 | |
| 2. | "Good Imitation of the Blues" | Patrick Brayer | 3:23 | |
| 3. | "Like Red on a Rose" | Robert Lee Castleman | 3:32 | |
| 4. | "Nobody Said That It Would Be Easy" | Castleman | 3:44 | |
| 5. | "Don't Change on Me" | Jimmy Holiday, Eddie Reeves | 3:26 | |
| 6. | "The Firefly's Song" | Castleman | 3:56 | |
| 7. | "Wait a Minute" | Herb Pedersen | 4:22 | |
| 8. | "Had It Not Been You" | Sidney Cox | 4:01 | |
| 9. | "A Woman's Love" | Alan Jackson | 4:13 | |
| 10. | "Don't Ask Why" | Roy Freeland, Bill LaBounty | 3:01 | |
| 11. | "As Lovely As You" | John Pennell | 4:05 | |
| 12. | "Where Do I Go From Here (A Trucker's Song)" | Castleman, Stephen Foster | 4:02 | |
| 13. | "Bluebird" | Leon Russell | 3:25 |
Personnel
From liner notes.[14]
Musicians
- Ron Block — acoustic guitar, twin electric guitars on "A Woman's Love"
- Jim Cox — Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer
- Jerry Douglas — lap steel guitar, Dobro
- Alison Krauss — strings
- Viktor Krauss — bass guitar, upright bass
- Howard Levy — harmonica
- Michael McDonald — clavinet, Fender Rhodes
- Joey Miskulin — accordion
- Gordon Mote — piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3 organ
- Nashville String Machine — strings on "A Woman's Love" and "Had It Not Been You"
- Bernard Purdie — drums
- Kenny Vaughan — electric guitar
Backing vocalists
- Sam Bush
- Sidney Cox
- Suzanne Cox
- Dave Denman
- Alison Krauss
- Richard Sterban
- Dan Tyminski
- Cheryl White
- Lee Ann Womack
Technical
- Carl Gorodetzky — string contractor
- Alison Krauss — producer
- Michael Omartian — string arranger and conductor
- Gary Paczosa — Recording Engineer, Mix Engineer
- Brandon Bell — Recording Engineer
- Joey Crawford — Assistant Recording Engineer
- Greg Lawrence — Assistant Recording Engineer
- Terry Christian — Recording Engineer (for String Session)
- Doug Sax — Mastering Engineer
- Sangwook Nam — Mastering Engineer
Chart performance
Like Red on a Rose debuted at #4 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and #1 on the Top Country Albums selling 86,000 copies, becoming his ninth #1 country album. In January 2007, Like Red on a Rose was certified Gold by the RIAA.
Charts
Singles
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Sales and certifications
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References
- ↑ Critic reviews at Metacritic
- ↑ About.com review
- ↑ Like Red on a Rose at AllMusic
- ↑ Country Weekly review
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
- ↑ The Music Box review
- ↑ No Depression review
- ↑ People review
- ↑ PopMatters review
- ↑ Slant Magazine review
- ↑ Stylus Magazine review
- ↑ The Village Voice review
- ↑ Yahoo! Music review
- ↑ Like Red on a Rose (CD booklet). Alan Jackson. Arista Nashville. 2006. 82876.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 http://www.swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Alan+Jackson&titel=Like+Red+On+A+Rose&cat=a
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Like Red on a Rose - Alan Jackson". Billboard.com. 2006-10-14. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ↑ "Gold & Platinum - February 16, 2010". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-02-16.
External links
| Preceded by Live: Live Those Songs Again by Kenny Chesney |
Top Country Albums number-one album October 14–20, 2006 |
Succeeded by It Just Comes Natural by George Strait |
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