''This Ride'' is the sixth album by American

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singer

Jerrod Niemann Jerrod Lee Niemann (born July 24, 1979) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has released one single for Category 5 Records (2006); three albums for Sea Gayle Music/Arista Nashville: ''Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury'' (2010), '' ...

. It is his first release for

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, and it was issued on October 6, 2017. The album includes the single " A Little More Love", a duet with labelmate

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 to Love'', ...

Content

The album's first two singles, "A Little More Love" and "God Made a Woman", respectively charted at No. 28 and No. 55 on

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in advance of the album's release.

Critical reception

Rating it 3.5 out of 5 stars,

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wrote that "Maybe Niemann will never be as weird as he was on '' Free the Music'', but on ''This Ride'' he manages to convey his own amiable, slightly left of center personality within mainstream country-pop, and that's more than enough." Markos Papadatos of ''Digital Journal'' rated the album "A", saying that "there is something in it for everybody" and praising "God Made a Woman" as the strongest song.

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 28 on the Country Album Sales chart, selling 1,400 copies in the first week.

Track listing

Personnel

– duet vocals on "A Little More Love" *

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 * Luke Dick – electric guitar * David Dorn – keyboards *

Kenny Greenberg Kenneth S. "Kenny" Greenberg is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and session musician. He is known for bringing a rock-and-roll sensibility to Nashville recording sessions. Biography Greenberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio but attend ...

–

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, electric guitar,

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* Wes Hightower – background vocals * Evan Hutchings – drums, keyboards, percussion, programming,

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

* Gene Johnson – background vocals on "I Ain't All There" * Charlie Judge –

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

, keyboards, piano, synthesizer,

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, string arrangements * Troy Lancaster – electric guitar * Blair Masters –

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

, keyboards, piano, programming, synthesizer,

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* Rob McNelley – acoustic guitar, electric guitar * Lance Miller – background vocals * Carl Miner – acoustic guitar *

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 * Jerrod Niemann – lead vocals, background vocals * Nick Norman – background vocals * Jimmy Olander – electric guitar on "I Ain't All There" * Russ Pahl –

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) 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 conve ...

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 ...

– banjo,

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, acoustic guitar,

resonator guitar A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator gui ...

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 ...

* Kip Raines – percussion * Marty Roe – background vocals on "I Ain't All There" * Justin Schipper – steel guitar *

Adam Shoenfeld Adam Shoenfeld (born April 29, 1974) is a professional guitarist, songwriter and producer based in Nashville, TN. Primarily focused on modern country music, his guitar playing has been featured on over 200 albums, and is closely associated with Bi ...

– electric 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, electric guitar, Hammond B-3 organ, ukulele * Russell Terrell – background vocals *

Ilya Toshinsky Bering Strait was a Russian country music band, whose style was sometimes called "redgrass". In 2003, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award and appeared on the TV show ''60 Minutes''. The group disbanded in 2006. The lineup on their first alb ...

– acoustic guitar *

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

– electric guitar * Dana Williams – background vocals on "I Ain't All There" * John Willis – acoustic guitar * Nir "Z" Zidkyahu – drums, programming

References

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