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. It was released on August 19, 2016 via Dot Records, an imprint of Big Machine Records. The album has produced three singles, "It Feels Good", Livin' the Dream" and "Makin' Me Look Good Again", all of which have reached the Top 40 on the ''

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chart. White co-wrote eleven of the album's twelve tracks.

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and Jeremy Stover produced all tracks except for track 10, with assistance from White on tracks 3, 6, 7, and 8. Andrew Petroff and Adam Schwind produced track 10.

Commercial reception

The album debuted at No. 34 on ''Billboard'' 200, and No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, selling 11,000 copies in its first week. It has sold 58,900 copies in the US as of September 2017.

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians * Jon Aanestad –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

* Joe Andrews – electric guitar * Paul Armstrong – trumpet * Zac Brown – background vocals * Clay Cook – background vocals *

–

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, ...

, electric guitar,

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, background vocals * Sam Damewood –

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 ...

* Jimmy de Martini – background vocals * Kris Donegan – electric guitar * Fred Eltringham –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Shannon Forrest – drums * Mark Hill – bass guitar * John Driskell Hopkins – background vocals *

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– background vocals * Jaren Johnston – background vocals *

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– keyboards * Tony Lucido – bass guitar * Matt McDaniel –

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 ...

, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, electric sitar * Miles McPherson – drums * Jimmy Nichols – keyboards * Billy Nobel – keyboards * Phillip Pence – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele * Andrew Petroff – percussion * Ethan Pilzer – bass guitar * Danny Rader – banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar,

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 ...

* Mike Rojas – keyboards * Adam Schwind – drums, percussion, background vocals * Carlos Sosa – saxophone * Dawn Soul – tambourine * Russell Terrell – background vocals * Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar, electric guitar *

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– trombone * Derek Wells – acoustic guitar, electric guitar *

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;Production * Natthaphol Abhigantaphand – production assistant * Daniel Bacigalupi – production assistant * Joe Baldridge – engineer * Adam Bokesch – production assistant * Drew Bollman – production assistant *

– digital editing, engineer, producer, programming * Paul Cossette – production assistant * Andrew Darby – production assistant * Brian David – digital editing * Steve Dewey – production assistant * Angella Grossi – production assistant * Bob Holland – engineer mixing * Travis Humbert – production assistant * Scott Johnson – production coordination * Allison Jones – A&R * Laurel Kittleson – production coordination * Jason Kyle – engineer * Nick Lane – engineer * Jasper Lemaster – production assistant, engineer * Andrew Mendelson – mastering * Buckley Miller – engineer, mixing * Justin Niebank – mixing * Andrew Petroff – engineer, producer * Richard Ridgell – production assistant * Lindsay Rimes – programming * Adam Schwind – producer *

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– engineer, mixing * Brianna Steinitz – production coordination * Jeremy Stover – producer * Drake White – producer * Chris Wilkinson – production assistant

Chart performance

Album

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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