''It Goes Like This'' is the debut album by American
country music
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singer
Thomas Rhett
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People
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* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
. It was released on October 29, 2013, via
Valory Music Group
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.
The album's release was announced on August 22.
Content
It includes the singles "
It Goes Like This
''It Goes Like This'' is the debut album by American country music singer Thomas Rhett. It was released on October 29, 2013, via Big Machine Records, Valory Music Group. The album's release was announced on August 22.
Content
It includes the sin ...
", "
Get Me Some of That", and "
Make Me Wanna". It also includes the previously released singles "
Something to Do with My Hands" and "
Beer with Jesus" from Rhett's prior self-titled EP release.
Jay Joyce
John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine and began working as a record producer, working with artists suc ...
produced six of the album's tracks, of which five previously appeared on Rhett's
self-titled extended play.
Michael Knox and
Luke Laird
Luke Robert Laird (born May 4, 1978 in Hartstown, Pennsylvania) is an American country music songwriter and producer. He has written over 20 number one ''Billboard'' singles, including Carrie Underwood's "So Small", "Temporary Home", and "Und ...
produce three tracks each.
Critical reception
The album received positive reviews from critics. Steve Leggett of
Allmusic
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rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying that "It's a solidly professional outing, featuring all three of his singles and other tracks of similar construction, and it's full of energy, good humor, and the kind of backroad good-old-boy wisdom that everybody seems to love these days, even if it feeds more off nostalgia than reality."
Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, Matt Bjorke of ''Roughstock'' called it "a very good, musically diverse debut album, an album which should find some sort of an audience."
Track listing
Personnel
*
Thomas Rhett
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
– lead vocals, acoustic guitar,
mandolin
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, drums
* Tony Harrell – acoustic piano,
Hammond B3 organ
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* Matt Stanfield – keyboards
*
Jody Stevens – programming
*
Jay Joyce
John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine and began working as a record producer, working with artists suc ...
–
Fender Rhodes
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, Hammond B3 organ, synth strings, programming,
baritone guitar
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, electric guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, backing vocals
*
Pat Buchanan
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– electric guitar
*
J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
*
Jedd Hughes
Jedd Hughes (born in Quorn, Australia) is an Australian singer, songwriter, session musician, and record producer.
Early life
Hughes grew up in Quorn, where he grew up listening to his father's country records. He won a local country music co ...
– electric guitar
* Rob McNelley – electric guitar,
dobro
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The Dobro was originally ...
* Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
* Joel Key – acoustic guitar,
banjo
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*
Luke Laird
Luke Robert Laird (born May 4, 1978 in Hartstown, Pennsylvania) is an American country music songwriter and producer. He has written over 20 number one ''Billboard'' singles, including Carrie Underwood's "So Small", "Temporary Home", and "Und ...
– acoustic guitar
*
John Osborne
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– acoustic guitar, banjo
*
Danny Rader
Danny Rader (born November 1, 1981) is a musician from Panama City, Florida. Born into a musical family, he began to play drums at age 2 and branched out into bass, guitar and piano in his early teens. Later he incorporated bouzouki, mandolin, b ...
– acoustic guitar
*
Ilya Toshinsky
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– acoustic guitar
* Ed Williams – acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
* Steve Fishell –
pedal steel guitar
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* Mike Johnson –
steel guitar
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* Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
* Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar,
Jew's harp
* Lee Hendricks – bass guitar
*
Jimmie Lee Sloas
Jimmie Lee Sloas is an American session musician, producer, and songwriter, who plays bass guitar.
History
Jimmie Lee Sloas, born in Ashland, Kentucky, grew up in Fairborn, Ohio and Isonville, Kentucky. His father, Dave, was a member of the p ...
– bass guitar
*
Matt Chamberlain
Matthew Chamberlain (born April 17, 1967) is an American session musician, drummer, producer and songwriter.
Biography
Life and career
Chamberlain was born in San Pedro, California on April 17, 1967. He began learning how to play the drums ...
– drums, percussion
*
Fred Eltringham
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– drums, percussion
*
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, drum programming
* Craig Wright – drums, percussion
* Rich Redmond – percussion
*
Brett Warren –
harmonica
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, backing vocals
*
Rhett Akins
Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. (born October 13, 1969) is an American singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for that label (1995's '' A Thousand Memories'' and 1996's '' Somebody New''), followed by ...
– backing vocals
*
Danielle Bradbery
Danielle Simone Bradbery (born July 23, 1996) is an American country pop singer. She won season 4 of NBC's ''The Voice'' in 2013, becoming the youngest artist to win the competition at age 16. Bradbery's record has since been eclipsed by Sawyer F ...
– backing vocals
* Whitney Cheshier – backing vocals
*
Mickey Jack Cones
Mickey Jack Cones (born in San Antonio, TX) is an American record producer, engineer, session musician, singer and songwriter. Raised in a musical family, he is the grandson of Glenn Gray Orchestra singer Jane Cones and son of Jackie Cones of Th ...
– backing vocals
* Virginia Davis – backing vocals
* Drew Gaw – backing vocals
* Kelsea Granda – backing vocals
*
Jace Hall
Jason "Jace" Hall is an American film, television and video game producer.
Career
Hall was one of the founders of Monolith Productions and is CEO of record keeping platform Twin Galaxies. His music video "I Play W.O.W" was featured on IGN's Y ...
– backing vocals
* Tom Luteran – backing vocals
* Gloria Martinez – backing vocals
* Mark Martinez – backing vocals
* Alex Quattlebaum – backing vocals
* Nichole Rodriguez – backing vocals
* Jess Rosen – backing vocals
* Julie Stuckey – backing vocals
* Russell Terrell – backing vocals
* Samantha Thornton – backing vocals
* Kelly Tillotson – backing vocals
*
Brad Warren – backing vocals
Chart performance
The album debuted at No. 6 on the
''Billboard'' 200 and No. 2 on the Top Current Albums chart with 36,000 copies sold in the U.S. on its first week of release. The album has sold 271,000 copies in the US as of September 2015.
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
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2013 debut albums
Thomas Rhett albums
Big Machine Records albums
Albums produced by Jay Joyce
Albums produced by Michael Knox (record producer)