I'm Still Here (album)

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I'm Still Here
Mindy McCready - I'm Still Here (album).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 23, 2010 (2010-03-23)
Genre Country
Length47:47
Label Linus Entertainment
Producer Christopher Jak, Trey Bruce and Jimmy Nichols [1]
Mindy McCready chronology
Mindy McCready
(2002)
I'm Still Here
(2010)
Singles from I'm Still Here
  1. "I'm Still Here"
    Released: 2008
  2. "I Want a Man"
    Released: 2010

I'm Still Here is the fifth and final studio album by American country music artist Mindy McCready. It was released on March 23, 2010 by Linus Entertainment. The album includes the single "I'm Still Here," as well as re-recordings of her 1996 singles "Guys Do It All the Time" and "Ten Thousand Angels." Mindy performed on Fox & Friends to promote the album in April 2010. This is McCready's final release before her death in 2013.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wrong Again" Gary Burr, Helen Darling 3:19
2."By Her Side" Whitney Duncan, Blu Sanders3:48
3."I Want a Man"McCready, Robin Lee Bruce, Billy Crain3:35
4."I'm Still Here"McCready, Trey Bruce, Rachel Thibodeau4:10
5."I Want to Love You"Lisa Carver, Shelly Fairchild, Stephony Smith3:38
6."Songs About You"Blair Daly, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges 3:33
7."The Way You Make Me Melt"McCready, Bruce, Thibodeau4:25
8."The Dance" Tony Arata 4:10
9."I Hate That I Love You" Ashley Gorley, Wade Kirby, Bryan Simpson2:39
10."Fades" Kyle Jacobs, Melissa Peirce 3:26
11."By Her Side" (Acoustic Version)Duncan, Sanders3:53
12."Guys Do It All the Time" (Newly Updated Version)Kim Tribble, Robert Whiteside3:17
13."Ten Thousand Angels" (Newly Updated Version)Billy Henderson, Steven D. Jones3:54

Personnel

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Country Weekly Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly B [4]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album three out of five stars, stating "the songs are generally a mixed bag, veering from sweetly melancholy to syrupy, but McCready has never been more sensitive as a vocalist, pulling the album through the rough patches and convincingly selling the notion that she’s a sober survivor." [2] Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly magazine rated it two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "peaks" with the title track. She said that McCready's vocals were "confident" but added that the album was a "hodgepodge of songs." [3]

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