XII (album)

This article is about the Neal McCoy album. For the number, see 12 (number).
XII
Studio album by Neal McCoy
Released March 6, 2012 (2012-03-06)
Genre Country
Label Blaster
Producer Miranda Lambert
Blake Shelton
Brent Rowan
Neal McCoy chronology
That's Life
(2005)		 XII
(2012)		 Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride
(2013)
Singles from XII
  1. "A-OK"
    Released: October 17, 2011
  2. "Shotgun Rider"
    Released: April 23, 2012
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Roughstock[2]
Taste of Country[3]

XII is an album by American country music singer Neal McCoy. Released on March 6, 2012 via Blaster Records, it is his first album of new material since That's Life in 2005. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert co-produced the album with Brent Rowan. The album includes the single "A-OK".[4]

Critical reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "finds him doing what he does best, performing nimble mainstream country music tunes as good as anything else on the marketplace."[2] Rating it four stars out of five, Taste of Country writer Billy Dukes favorably compared McCoy's vocals to Shelton's.[3] J. Poet of Allmusic rated it three stars out of five, saying that the album had "one great tune, two good ones, and a whole lot that get by on McCoy's powerful vocals".[1]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "A-OK"  Brett Eldredge, Luke Laird, Barry Dean 2:56
2. "Real Good Feel Good"  Dallas Davidson, Jimmy Ritchey, Sam Hunt 4:05
3. "Judge a Man by the Woman"  Dean, Don Poythress 3:58
4. "Mouth"  Jamey Johnson, David Tolliver 3:15
5. "Shotgun Rider"  Keith Anderson, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Ben Hayslip 3:00
6. "That's You"  Clint Daniels, Neal McCoy, Jeff Hyde 3:24
7. "Crazy Women"  Rivers Rutherford, George Teren 3:34
8. "Lucky Enough"  McCoy, Hyde, Ryan Tyndell 3:33
9. "Every Fire"  Cathy Majeski, John Scott Sherrill 3:39
10. "That's Just How She Gets"  Shane Minor, Bart Butler, Dave Turnbull 2:56
11. "Borderline Crazy"  Greg Barnhill, Kris Bergsnes, Jeremy Stover 3:16
12. "Van Gogh"  Tom Douglas, Allen Shamblin 3:56
Total length:
 41:42

Personnel

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2012) Peak
position
US Billboard Top Country Albums 58

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
2011 "A-OK" 52
2012 "Shotgun Rider" —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

  1. 1 2 Poet, J. "XII review". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  2. 1 2 Bjorke, Matt (March 6, 2012). "XII review". Roughstock. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Dukes, Billy (March 6, 2012). "XII review". Taste of Country. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Neal McCoy Leads Independent Releases". CMT. March 6, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
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