Big Dreams & High Hopes

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Big Dreams & High Hopes
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 25, 2009 (2009-08-25)
Genre Country
Length42:36
Label Big Machine
Producer Radney Foster
Jay Joyce
Doug Lancio
Jeremy Stover
Jack Ingram chronology
This Is It
(2007)
Big Dreams & High Hopes
(2009)
Midnight Motel
(2016)
Singles from Big Dreams & High Hopes
  1. "That's a Man"
    Released: October 13, 2008
  2. "Barefoot and Crazy"
    Released: March 30, 2009
  3. "Seeing Stars"
    Released: October 12, 2009
  4. "Free"
    Released: January 25, 2010
  5. "Barbie Doll"
    Released: May 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Roughstock(favorable) [2]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Big Dreams & High Hopes is the eighth studio album by American country music singer Jack Ingram. It was released on August 25, 2009 via Big Machine Records as his third release for the label. The album includes the singles "That's a Man" (a Top 20 hit) and "Barefoot and Crazy," which is Ingram's first Top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts since 2005's "Wherever You Are".

Contents

Content

Regarding the album's content, Ingram told CMT that the album will have "more guts" than his previous albums. [4] It was originally to have included Ellis Paul's "The World Ain't Slowing Down," [4] which was cut from the album.

"That's a Man" served as the lead-off single, reaching No. 18 on the U.S. country charts in mid-2009. The album was originally to have been released at that point, but the release was moved as "That's a Man" fell from the charts weeks before the album's first release date. "Barefoot and Crazy" was then issued as the second single, "Seeing Stars" the third and "Free" the fourth.

Also included on this album is a re-recording of "Barbie Doll," which Ingram previously recorded on his 1999 studio album Hey You. The version here features guest vocals from Dierks Bentley, Randy Houser, James Otto and members of Little Big Town and The Lost Trailers. A radio edit of the same song, featuring only Ingram and Bentley, was issued as the fifth single.

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five. He considered the production reminiscent of 1970s rock music, and said that most of the songs were well written but not distinctive. [1]

The album debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 61, [5] No. 21 on the Top Country Albums chart, [6] selling 10,000 copies in its first week. It has sold 34,000 copies in the US as of May 2016. [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Free"Jay Knowles, Trent Summar3:06
2."Barefoot and Crazy" Ben Hayslip, Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson 3:30
3."That's a Man" Ed Hill, Steven Dale Jones, Mark D. Sanders 3:57
4."Seeing Stars" (duet with Patty Griffin) Jack Ingram, Chris Tompkins 3:54
5."Not Giving Up on Me"Ingram, Jeffrey Steele, Tom Hambridge 4:01
6."Barbie Doll" (featuring Dierks Bentley, Randy Houser, Little Big Town, The Lost Trailers and James Otto)Ingram, Todd Snider 3:56
7."Big Dreams & High Hopes"Ingram, Gary Burr 3:52
8."Heartache"Ingram, Radney Foster, Darrell Brown 4:27
9."Man in Your Life"Ingram, Foster3:35
10."King of Wasted Time" Tom Shapiro, Jim Collins, Tony Martin 3:39
11."In the Corner"Ingram4:54

Personnel

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2009)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [8] 61
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [9] 21

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
US Country US
2008"That's a Man"18104
2009"Barefoot and Crazy"1064
"Seeing Stars" (with Patty Griffin)54
2010"Free"42
"Barbie Doll" (with Dierks Bentley)56
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

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