All I Want (Tim McGraw album)
All I Want is the third studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on September 19, 1995. The album sold over two million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. It has been certified as 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. The album's singles were, in order of release: "I Like It, I Love It", "Can't Be Really Gone", "All I Want Is a Life", "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It". Respectively, these reached No. 1, No. 2, No. 5, No. 1, andNo. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "I Like It, I Love It" was also a No. 25 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. This was Tim's last album to have a neotraditional country sound before developing a more crossover-friendly country-pop sound.
All I Want | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 19, 1995 | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 42:12 | |||
Label | Curb | |||
Producer | ||||
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Singles from All I Want | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
Entertainment Weekly | A[2] |
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "All I Want Is a Life" | Stan Munsey, Tony Mullins, Don Pfrimmer | 3:33 |
2. | "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" | Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro | 3:02 |
3. | "Can't Be Really Gone" | Gary Burr | 3:21 |
4. | "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It" | Jerry Laseter, Kerry Kurt Phillips | 3:55 |
5. | "I Didn't Ask and She Didn't Say" | Van Stephenson, Reese Wilson, Tony Martin | 4:02 |
6. | "Renegade" | Jeff Stevens, Steve Bogard | 2:59 |
7. | "I Like It, I Love It" | Mark Hall, Jeb Stuart Anderson, Steve Dukes | 3:24 |
8. | "The Great Divide" | Brett Beavers | 3:15 |
9. | "You Got the Wrong Man" | Joe Barnhill, Wayne Perry | 3:18 |
10. | "Don't Mention Memphis" | Bill LaBounty, Rand Bishop | 3:00 |
11. | "When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)" | Tommy Barnes | 5:13 |
12. | "That's Just Me" | Deryl Dodd | 3:13 |
Charts and certifications
Album
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Certifications
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Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||
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1995 | "I Like It, I Love It" | 1 | 25 | 1 |
"Can't Be Really Gone" | 2 | 87 | 4 | |
"All I Want Is a Life" | 5 | — | 2 | |
1996 | "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" | 1 | — | 5 |
"Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It" | 4 | — | 1 |
Personnel
Musicians
- Mike Brignardello - bass guitar on all tracks expect "All I Want is A Life"
- Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar
- Glen Duncan - fiddle, mandolin
- Sonny Garrish - dobro, steel guitar
- Dann Huff - electric guitar
- Tim McGraw - lead vocals
- Terry McMillan - percussion
- Steve Nathan - keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
- Matt Rollings - piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
- Brent Rowan - electric guitar
- Lonnie Wilson - drums
- Glenn Worf - bass guitar on "All I Want is A Life"
- Curtis Wright - background vocals
- Curtis Young - background vocals
Strings performed by the Nashville String Machine, arranged and conducted by Steve Dorff and contracted by Carl Gorodetzky.
Technical
- Missi Callis - assistant producer, production assistant
- Ricky Cobble - assistant engineer
- Byron Gallimore - producer
- Mark Hagen - assistant engineer, mixing assistant
- Julian King - engineer
- Chris Lord-Alge - mixing
- Abbe Nameche - production assistant
- Jerry Puckett - engineer
- Doug Rich - production assistant
- Doug Sax - mastering
- James Stroud - producer
- Craig White — assistant engineer
References
- Allmusic review
- Entertainment Weekly review
- All I Want - Tim McGraw, Billboard, archived from the original on 18 October 2010, retrieved 2010-10-18
- "RIAA – Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- Tim McGraw Album & Song Chart History, Billboard, archived from the original on 18 October 2010, retrieved 2010-10-18