Thirty Miles West

Thirty Miles West
Studio album by Alan Jackson
Released	June 5, 2012
Recorded	2011-2012
Genre	Country
Length	52:21
Label	Alan's Country Records EMI Nashville
Producer	Keith Stegall[1]
Alan Jackson chronology
34 Number Ones (2010) Thirty Miles West (2012) Playlist: The Very Best of Alan Jackson (2012)
Singles from Thirty Miles West
"Long Way to Go" Released: June 27, 2011 "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" Released: January 16, 2012 "You Go Your Way" Released: August 27, 2012

Thirty Miles West is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson.^[2] 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.^[3] The album includes the singles "Long Way to Go," "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" and "You Go Your Way."^[4]

The album's title refers to a song about a stretch of the Dixie Highway near Jackson's hometown of Newnan, Georgia.^[5] The song, "Dixie Highway," is a duet with Zac Brown.^[6]

Reception

Critical

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[7]
Allmusic	[8]
Country Weekly	(positive)[9]
Los Angeles Times	[10]
The New York Times	(average)[11]
The Washington Post	(average)[12]

Upon its release, Thirty Miles West received generally positive reviews from most music critics.^[13] 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".^[13]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Gonna Come Back as a Country Song"	Terry McBride, Chris Stapleton	3:02
2.	"You Go Your Way"	Troy Jones, David Lee, Tony Lane	3:18
3.	"Everything but the Wings"	Alan Jackson	4:44
4.	"Talk Is Cheap"	Guy Clark, Stapleton, Morgane Hayes	3:48
5.	"So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore"	Jay Knowles, Adam Wright	3:42
6.	"Look Her in the Eye and Lie"	Jackson	3:48
7.	"Dixie Highway" (with Zac Brown)	Jackson	7:24
8.	"She Don't Get High"	Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde, Kylie Sackley	4:12
9.	"Her Life's a Song"	Jackson	4:25
10.	"Nothin' Fancy"	Knowles, Wright	3:12
11.	"Long Way to Go"	Jackson	3:39
12.	"Life Keeps Bringing Me Down"	Al Anderson, Shawn Camp	3:04
13.	"When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey)"	Jackson	4:04
Total length:			52:21

Personnel

• Zac Brown - duet vocals on "Dixie Highway"
• J.T. Corenflos - electric guitar
• Dan Dugmore - steel guitar, slide guitar
• Larry Franklin - fiddle, mandolin
• Greenwood Hart - percussion
• Alan Jackson - lead vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis - piano, Wurlitzer
• Andy Leftwich - fiddle
• Brent Mason - electric guitar, gut string guitar
• Greg Morrow - drums
• Gordon Mote - Hammond B-3 organ, piano, Wurlitzer
• Steve Patrick - trumpet
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Marty Slayton - background vocals
• Bobby Terry - acoustic guitar, gut string guitar
• Scott Vestal - banjo
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2012)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart[14]	6
Canadian Albums Chart[15]	4
German Newcomer Chart[16]	17
Norwegian Albums Chart[14]	14
Swedish Albums Chart[14]	45
UK Country Albums Chart[17]	3
US Billboard 200[15]	2
US Billboard Top Country Albums[15]	1

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country [18]	US Country Airplay [19]	US Bubbling [20]
2011	"Long Way to Go"	24	—	20
2012	"So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore"	25	—	8
	"You Go Your Way"	41	39	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

1. Wyland, Sarah (April 10, 2012). "Alan Jackson to Release New Album June 5". Great American Country. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
2. Cooper, Brittany Joy (April 10, 2012). "Alan Jackson to Release ‘Thirty Miles West’ Record June 5". Taste of Country. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
3. Darden, Beville (April 10, 2012). "Alan Jackson, 'Thirty Miles West' to Release in June". The Boot. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
4. "Alan Jackson to Release "Thirty Miles West" on June 5". Roughstock. April 10, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
5. "Alan Jackson's New Album Due June 5". Country Music Television. April 10, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
6. Flippo, Chet (May 3, 2012). "NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Big Summer Sounds Coming From Alan Jackson". Country Music Television. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
7. Silva, Robert. "Alan Jackson - 'Thirty Miles West' Album Review". About.com. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
8. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Thirty Miles West - Alan Jackson". Allmusic. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
9. Nicholson, Jessica (June 5, 2012). "Thirty Miles West by Alan Jackson". Country Weekly. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
10. Lewis, Randy (June 6, 2012). "Album review: Alan Jackson's 'Thirty Miles West'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
11. Pareles, Jon; Chinen, Nate; Ratliff, Ben (June 4, 2012). "Another Solstice in an Endless Summer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 26, 2013.
12. Richards, Chris (June 4, 2012). "Alan Jackson’s ‘Thirty Miles West’: Reliably comforting". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
13. "Critic Reviews for Thirty Miles West - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
14. "Alan Jackson - Thirty Miles West". Ultratop 50. Hung Medien. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
15. "Chart listing for Thirty Miles West". Billboard. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
16. http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/dance-dinosaurier-trampelt-durch-newcomer-charts.html
17. http://www.officialcharts.com/country-charts/
18. "Alan Jackson Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
19. "Alan Jackson Album & Song Chart History - Country Airplay". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
20. Peak chart positions for singles on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart:
    • "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Week of November 5, 2011". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
    • "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Week of June 30, 2012". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 13, 2012.