5th Gear | ||||
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Released | June 19, 2007 | |||
Recorded | 2006–2007 | |||
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Genre | Country | |||
Length | 67:48 | |||
Label | Arista Nashville | |||
Producer | Frank Rogers | |||
Brad Paisley chronology | ||||
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Singles from 5th Gear | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
About.com | [2] |
Allmusic | [3] |
BBC Music | (average) [4] |
Country Weekly | (favorable) [5] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ [6] |
The Phoenix | [7] |
Plugged In (publication) | (unfavorable) [8] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | [9] |
Rolling Stone | [10] |
Slant | [11] |
5th Gear is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Brad Paisley. It was released June 19, 2007, by Arista Nashville and debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, with first week sales of about 197,000 copies. [12] On April 9, 2008, 5th Gear was certified platinum by the RIAA. [13]
The album's first four singles — "Ticks", "Online", "Letter to Me", and "I'm Still a Guy" — all reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. In June 2008, a re-recording of "Waitin' on a Woman", a song which Paisley originally recorded for his 2005 album Time Well Wasted , was added as a bonus track to this album. This re-edited version was released in June 2008 as the album's fifth single. For the chart week of September 20, 2008, the song has become his twelfth number-one single and his eighth straight number-one hit. When pre-ordered through iTunes, another bonus track, "You Love Me So Good", was included.
In 2009, NPR picked the album as one of "The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings." [14] "Oh Love" received a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals nomination. [15]
Blaine Larsen later released a rendition of "It Did" in 2009.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "All I Wanted Was a Car" | 4:05 | |
2. | "Ticks" |
| 4:33 |
3. | "Online" |
| 4:56 |
4. | "Letter to Me" | Paisley | 4:41 |
5. | "I'm Still a Guy" |
| 4:11 |
6. | "Some Mistakes" |
| 4:57 |
7. | "It Did" | 3:55 | |
8. | "Mr. Policeman" |
| 4:15 |
9. | "If Love Was a Plane" | Paisley | 3:56 |
10. | "Oh Love" (duet with Carrie Underwood) | 4:11 | |
11. | "Better Than This" |
| 3:12 |
12. | "With You, Without You" |
| 4:54 |
13. | "Previously" (featuring the Kung Pao Buckaroos) | 0:55 | |
14. | "Bigger Fish to Fry" (featuring the "New" Kung Pao Buckaroos) |
| 4:25 |
15. | "When We All Get to Heaven" |
| 3:54 |
16. | "Throttleneck" (instrumental) |
| 5:16 |
17. | "Outtake 1" (hidden track) | 0:26 | |
18. | "Outtake 2" (hidden track) | 0:46 | |
19. | "Waitin' on a Woman" (available on later releases only [16] ) |
| 5:03 |
Total length: | 67:48 |
"Mr. Policeman" incorporates the chorus of "In the Jailhouse Now" (written by Jimmie Rodgers) at its end, with new lyrics to fit the rest of the song.
Credits from the album's liner notes. [1] There are only limited credits for tracks 17-18 ("Outtake 1" and "Outtake 2"), and the original booklet/liner notes do not include credits for "Waitin' on a Woman" because it was not included on the original release.
Brentwood High School Band on "Online"
The Kung Pao Buckaroos on track 13 ("Previously") and The New Kung Pao Buckaroos on track 14 ("Bigger Fish to Fry")
Weekly charts
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Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||
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US Country | US | US Pop | CAN | ||
2007 | "Ticks" | 1 | 40 | 48 | 33 |
"Online" | 1 | 39 | 89 | 50 | |
"Letter to Me" | 1 | 40 | 81 | 51 | |
2008 | "I'm Still a Guy" | 1 | 33 | 66 | 54 |
"Waitin' on a Woman" | 1 | 44 | — | 59 | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Region | Certification |
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United States (RIAA) [25] | Platinum |
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