''I Don't Dance'' is the third studio album by American

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artist

Lee Brice Kenneth Mobley Brice Jr. (born June 10, 1979), known professionally as Lee Brice, is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Curb Records. Brice has released five albums with the label: ''Love Like Crazy'', ''Hard 2 Love (Lee B ...

. It was released on September 9, 2014 by

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Content

The album's lead single is its

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, which became a number one single on

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in mid 2014. " Drinking Class" is the second single. Brice produced the title track by himself; he co-produced with Jon Stone of

American Young American Young is an American country music duo signed to Curb Records. The duo is composed of Kristy Osmunson, formerly of the group Bomshel, and songwriter/producer Jon Stone. In late 2013, the duo released their debut single, "Love Is War", w ...

on tracks 2, 7–9, and 11–13, and Kyle Jacobs and Matt McClure on tracks 3–6, and 10. He also played every instrument on the track "Girls in Bikinis". "Sirens" appears in the video game Madden NFL 16.

Critical reception

I Don't Dance received positive reviews from music critics. It has a score of 69 out of 100 on

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indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 4 critics reviews. Jon Freeman of ''

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'' rated the album "B". He praised the songwriting of the title track, as well as "Drinkin' Class", "My Carolina", and "The Airport Song", and described Brice's voice as "spectacular, ranging from a gentle whisper to a right-from-the-gut, serrated-edge howl that elevates even the most forgettable material into high drama." Freeman also praised the sparseness of the album's production.

Commercial performance

The album debuted on the ''Billboard'' 200 at No. 5, and No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with 39,000 copies sold in the United States in its debut week. The album has sold 247,400 copies in the US as of March 2016. On October 18, 2017, the song received gold status by the

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Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. * Carolyn Wann Bailey -

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(tracks 5, 10) * Hari Bernstein - strings (tracks 5, 10) * Travis Bettis -

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

(tracks 1, 2, 12) * Jessica Blackwell - strings (tracks 5, 10) *

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(tracks 1, 7-9, 12),

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 in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

(tracks 8, 9) electric guitar (tracks 3-5, 7, 11), handclaps (track 9), horn arrangements (track 10), keyboards (track 8), string arrangements (tracks 5, 10), lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6-8, 11), "Heys" (track 9),

whistle A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It is a type of Fipple, fipple flute, and may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a s ...

(track 8) * Sara Brice - talking girl (track 8) *

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- electric guitar (tracks 2, 13) * Perry Coleman - background vocals (tracks 2, 4-7, 11, 13) *

Chad Cromwell Chad Cromwell (born June 14, 1957) is an American rock drummer whose music career has spanned more than 30 years. He is the founding member of a band called Fortunate Sons, which released a self-titled album in 2004. Cromwell has worked with mu ...

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(tracks 7, 11) *

Eric Darken Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer. Biography Drawing inspiration from his grandfather, a band leader. Darken began playing drums at age 12, and played timpani and mallets in high school. Darken attended ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(track 1) * Charles Kenneth Dixon - strings (tracks 5, 10), copyist (tracks 5, 10) *

Chip Esten Charles Esten Puskar III (born September 9, 1965), also known professionally as Charles Esten, and (when appearing as himself on improvisation shows or hosting) as Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter, and comedian. Es ...

- handclaps (track 9), "Heys" (track 9) * Dan Frizsell - programming (track 12) * Ben Glover - background vocals (track 3) * Kevin "Swine" Grantt -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

(track 7) * Adrienne Harmon - strings (tracks 5, 10) * Mark Hill - bass guitar (tracks 3, 5, 6, 10) * June Iwasaki - strings (tracks 5, 10) * Mike Johnson -

steel guitar A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...

(tracks 3-6) * Charlie Judge -

B-3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created from rotat ...

(track 11), horn arrangements (track 10), keyboards (tracks 1, 3-8),

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

(track 6), programming (tracks 1-8, 11), string arrangements (tracks 5, 10), strings (track 11) * Jeff King - electric guitar (tracks 3-6, 9, 10) * Jennifer Kummer -

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(track 10) * Phillip Lammonds - acoustic guitar (track 12) * Tim Lauer - keyboards (track 2) * Tony Lucido - bass guitar (track 8, 9) * Donnie Marple - drums (tracks 1, 4, 12) * Matt McClure - programming (tracks 3-6) * Pat McGrath - acoustic guitar (tracks 3-6, 10) * Jerry McPherson -

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(track 1), electric guitar (tracks 1, 3-6, 9, 10) * Miles McPherson - drums (track 6) *

Greg Morrow Greg Morrow is an American drummer, percussionist, session musician, mixing engineer, and vocalist. Biography Morrow was born in Ripley, Tennessee and raised in Memphis. At age 11, Morrow and his band performed on a local TV show, and he par ...

- drums (track 2) * Emily Nelson - strings (tracks 5, 10) * Justin Niebank - programming (track 1) * Kelly Norman - background noise (track 13) * Kelly Norris - background vocals (track 2) * Russ Pahl - steel guitar (tracks 1, 9) * Sarighandi D. Reist - strings (tracks 5, 10) * Paul Rippee - bass guitar (tracks 1, 2) *

Maggie Rose Margaret Rose Durante (born May 19, 1988) is an American soul and country music singer. In 2009, Durante signed to Universal Republic and released a cover of Kings of Leon's " Use Somebody". A year later, she left Universal Republic and signed ...

- background vocals (track 13) * Bradley Smith - B-3 organ (track 12), piano (track 13), background vocals (track 12) *

Jimmie Lee Sloas Jimmie Lee Sloas is an American session musician, producer, and songwriter, who plays bass. History Jimmie Lee Sloas, born in Ashland, Kentucky, grew up in Fairborn, Ohio and Isonville, Kentucky. His father, Dave, was a member of the popular ...

- bass guitar (tracks 4, 11, 12) *

Jon Stone Jon Arthur Stone (April 13, 1931 – March 30, 1997) was an American writer, director, and producer who was best known as an original crewmember on the children's television show ''Sesame Street'' and is credited with helping to develop char ...

- acoustic guitar (tracks 8, 11), electric guitar (track 7), handclaps (track 9), background vocals (tracks 2, 9), "Heys" (track 9), "Woos" and "Yeas" (track 8) * Russell Terrell - background vocals (track 10) * Patrick Walle - french horn (track 10) * Jason Webb - B-3 organ (tracks 3, 6), keyboards (tracks 3, 6), piano (track 4), programming (track 6) *

Derek Wells Derek M. Wells (born 28 November 1946) is a former Canadian politician who served as the Liberal member of Parliament for the riding of South Shore from 1993 to 1997. Early life and education Born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Wells grad ...

- electric guitar (tracks 3-5, 10) *

Nir Z Nir Zidkyahu (, , born November 1967), also known as Nir Z, is an Israeli studio-session drummer, and the brother of Blackfield's drummer Tomer Z. He joined in spring 1997 with Genesis, he played in eight tracks for their last album ''Calling A ...

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