Country Fuzz

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Country Fuzz
The Cadillac Three - Country Fuzz.png
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 7, 2020 (2020-02-07)
Length46:55
Label Big Machine
Producer The Cadillac Three (all tracks except 6), Dann Huff (track 6)
The Cadillac Three chronology
Legacy
(2017)
Country Fuzz
(2020)

Country Fuzz is the fourth studio album by American country band The Cadillac Three. It was released on February 7, 2020 under Big Machine Records. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Louder Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spectrum CultureStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Country Fuzz was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 79, based on 4 reviews. [2]

Commercial performance

The album has sold 5,900 copies in the United States as of March 2020. [6] It debuted at No. 17 on Billboard's Top Country Albums on February 22, 2020. [7] On 14 February 2020, the album debuted at No. 1 on the UK Country Albums. [8]

Track listing

Country Fuzz track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Bar Round Here"2:34
2."The Jam"3:10
3."Hard Out Here for a Country Boy" (featuring Chris Janson & Travis Tritt)3:28
4."Slow Rollin'"2:44
5."All the Makin's of a Saturday Night"1:53
6."Crackin' Cold Ones With the Boys"2:34
7."Labels"3:04
8."Raise Hell"2:54
9."Back Home"3:15
10."Dirt Road Nights"3:11
11."Blue El Camino"2:09
12."Jack Daniels' Heart"3:47
13."Why Ya Gotta Go Out Like That"2:30
14."Heat"3:08
15."Whiskey and Smoke"3:08
16."Long After Last Call"3:22

Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic [9]

The Cadillac Three

Additional Musicians

Charts

Chart performance for Country Fuzz
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [10] 8
UK Albums (OCC) [11] 30
UK Country Albums (OCC) [12] 1
US Billboard 200 [13] 172
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [14] 17

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