''Fifteen'' is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band

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, released on January 22, 2016, through Residence Music. The album marks the band's fifteenth year together and is the reason behind its title. It was recorded using

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in separate sessions in three cities with producers

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and Jordan Critz.

Critical reception

In a four star review in ''

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'', Andy Argyrakis describes, "It’s all perfect for a backyard bonfire, front porch swing or intimate gathering amongst close friends, though it’s sure to sound just as sweet pumping out a dashboard radio." In another positive review, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock calls it "a fantastic album."

Track listing

Source:

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and ''Fifteens liner notes.

Personnel

Credits adapted from ''Fifteens liner notes. ;Green River Ordinance * Denton Hunker —

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Geoff Ice — bass,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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* Jamey Ice —

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

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, 12 string electric * Josh Jenkins —

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, lead vocals * Joshua Wilkerson — electric guitar, vocals, mandolin,

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;Additional musicians * Ross Holmes —

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

("Simple Life") * Lindsey Duffin — fiddle ("Red Fire Night", "Lucky Ones", "Gold", "Always Love Her", "Endlessly") * Milo Deering —

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("Endlessly") *

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— organ ("Endlessly") * Jordan Critz — electric guitar ("Tallahassee", "You Me & The Sea"), piano ("Tallahassee", "Endlessly"), organ ("Tallahassee", "Endlessly", "You Me & The Sea"),

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("You Me & The Sea"),

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("Always Love Her", "Simple Life", "Keep My Heart Open", "Keep Your Cool", "Life In The Wind", "Maybe It's Time") *

— electric guitar ("Keep Your Cool"), organ ("Keep My Heart Open", "Keep Your Cool", "Maybe It's Time"),

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("Life In The Wind"),

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("Life In The Wind", "Keep My Heart Open"), pedal steel guitar ("Simple Life") *

— piano, organ ("Red Fire Night", "Only God Knows") ;Technical personnel * Jordan Critz —

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("Tallahassee", "You Me & The Sea", "Endlessly"),

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("Tallahassee", "You Me & The Sea", "Endlessly") * Paul Moak — production ("Always Love Her", "Simple Life", "Keep My Heart Open", "Keep Your Cool", "Life In The Wind", "Maybe It's Time") * Rick Beato — production ("Red Fire Night", "Only God Knows") * Ken "GL" Lanyon — engineer ("Red Fire Night", "Only God Knows") * Devin Vaughan — engineer ("Always Love Her", "Simple Life", "Keep My Heart Open", "Keep Your Cool", "Life In The Wind", "Maybe It's Time") * Todd Robbins — mixing * Brad Blackwood — mastering * Shaun Menary —

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* Stereotonic — design & layout

Commercial performance

''Fifteen'' debuted at number 103 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and number one on ''Billboards Folk Albums chart, selling 5,100 copies in its first week of release.

Charts

Release history

References

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