Drive (Alan Jackson album)
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| Studio album by Alan Jackson | ||||
| Released | January 15, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | 2001 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 49:37 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville | |||
| Producer | Keith Stegall | |||
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| Singles from Drive | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| About.com |   [1] |
| Allmusic | [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [3] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [4] |
| Plugged In | (average) [5] |
| Q | [6] |
| Robert Christgau |  [7] |
| Rolling Stone | [8] |
Drive is the tenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. Released in 2002 on Arista Nashville, the album produced Jackson's highest-debuting single on the Hot Country Songs charts in the Number One hit "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)", a ballad written in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. "Drive (For Daddy Gene)", "Work in Progress", and "That'd Be Alright" were also released as singles, peaking at #1, #3, and #2, respectively, on the same chart; "Designated Drinker" also reached #44 without officially being released. In addition, all four released singles crossed over to pop radio and cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #28, #28, #35 and #29, respectively
Reception
At the 2003 Academy of Country Music Awards, Jackson was nominated for 10 awards winning Album of the Year for Drive and Video of the Year for the video to "Drive (For Daddy Gene)."[9]
In 2009, Rhapsody ranked the album #3 on its "Country’s Best Albums of the Decade" list.[10]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" | Jackson | 4:02 |
| 2. | "A Little Bluer Than That" | Mark Irwin, Irene Kelley | 2:54 |
| 3. | "Bring On the Night" | Jackson, Charlie Craig, Keith Stegall | 4:04 |
| 4. | "Work in Progress" | Jackson | 4:07 |
| 5. | "The Sounds" | Jackson | 3:23 |
| 6. | "Designated Drinker" (A duet with George Strait) | Jackson | 3:52 |
| 7. | "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" | Jackson | 5:06 |
| 8. | "That'd Be Alright" | Tim Nichols, Mark D. Sanders, Tia Sillers | 3:41 |
| 9. | "Once in a Lifetime Love" | Jackson | 3:25 |
| 10. | "When Love Comes Around" | Jackson | 3:07 |
| 11. | "I Slipped and Fell in Love" | Harley Allen, John Wiggins | 2:55 |
| 12. | "First Love" | Jackson | 3:14 |
| 13. | "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" (Live from the 35th Annual CMA Awards, spoken intro by Vince Gill) | Jackson | 5:47 |
Personnel
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
- Robbie Flint – steel guitar
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Vince Gill – introduction on track 13
- Danny Groah – electric guitar
- Wes Hightower – background vocals
- Jim Hoke – harmonica
- Alan Jackson – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
- Irene Kelley – background vocals
- John Kelton – bass guitar
- Matthew McCauley – conductor, string arrangements
- Mark McClurg – fiddle
- Brent Mason – electric guitar
- Gordon Mote – keyboards, piano
- Monty Parkey – piano
- Dave Pomeroy – bass guitar
- Bruce Rutherford – drums
- Tom Rutledge – acoustic guitar
- John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
- Tony Stephens – acoustic guitar
- George Strait – vocals on track 6
- Bruce Watkins – banjo, acoustic guitar
- Bergen White – conductor
- Roger Wills – bass guitar
- Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Chart performance
Drive debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, his first #1 debut, and debuted at #1 on the Top Country Albums selling 211,000 copies, his sixth #1 Country album. The album was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA in May 2003.
Charts
Singles
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Sales and Certifications
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References
- ↑ About.com review
- ↑ Drive at AllMusic
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
- ↑ Los Angeles Times review
- ↑ Plugged In review
- ↑ Album reviews at CD Universe
- ↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
- ↑ Rolling Stone review at the Wayback Machine (archived May 21, 2009)
- ↑ Editor unknown (2004), "2003 Academy of Country Music Awards". World Almanac & Book of Facts. Volume unknown:287. ISSN 0084-1382
- ↑ "Country’s Best Albums of the Decade" Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- 1 2 http://www.swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Alan+Jackson&titel=Drive&cat=a
- 1 2 "Drive - Alan Jackson". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
- ↑ "Gold & Platinum - February 12, 2010". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
| Preceded by Weathered by Creed J to tha L-O!: The Remixes by Jennifer Lopez |
Billboard 200 number-one album February 2–22, 2002 March 2–8, 2002 |
Succeeded by J To Tha L-O! The Remixes by Jennifer Lopez |
| Preceded by O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Various Artists |
Top Country Albums number-one album February 2 - March 15, 2002 |
Succeeded by O Brother, Where Art Thou? by Various Artists |