''Alone'' is the tenth

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by English-American

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The Pretenders. The album was released on October 21, 2016, by

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Chrissie Hynde Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician. She is a founding member and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band the Pretenders, and one of the band's two remaining original members alon ...

is the only member of the band to appear on the album (which may explain the chosen album title), with the backing band consisting of session musicians; this was also the case with ''

Packed! ''Packed!'' is the fifth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1990. Besides band leader Chrissie Hynde, no other person is pictured anywhere within the album package. At the time the album was recorded, the only other remaining offic ...

'' (1990), the first Pretenders album that used this method. The album is the band's second consecutive album not to include drummer Martin Chambers.

Critical reception

''Alone'' received generally positive reviews from

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s. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77 based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

Personnel

– vocals Additional personnel *

Dan Auerbach Daniel Quine Auerbach (; born May 14, 1979) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist of The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. As a member of the group, Auerbach has ...

– guitar, keyboards, backing vocals * Duane Eddy,

Kenny Vaughan Kenneth Vaughan is an American guitarist. He is best known as a long-time member of Marty Stuart’s supporting band, The Fabulous Superlatives. Career Early life Vaughan was born in Oklahoma, but raised in Denver, Colorado. His guitar instruct ...

– guitar *Russ Pahl – pedal steel *Dave Roe – upright bass *Leon Michels – keyboards * Richard Swift – drums, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals * Tchad Blake – mixing *Collin Dupuis – recording

Charts

References

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