Interstate Gospel

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Interstate Gospel
Album Interstate Gospel cover.jpg
Studio album by
Pistol Annies
ReleasedNovember 2, 2018 (2018-11-02)
Studio
Genre Americana, country
Length46:41
Label RCA Nashville
Producer Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf, Eric Masse
Pistol Annies chronology
Annie Up
(2013)		Interstate Gospel
(2018)		Hell of a Holiday
(2021)
Singles from Interstate Gospel
  1. "Got My Name Changed Back"
    Released: October 29, 2018

Interstate Gospel is the third studio album by American country supergroup Pistol Annies, and their second with RCA Nashville. It was released on November 2, 2018. It is their first album since 2013's Annie Up . It was nominated for Best Country Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards. It is their very first Grammy nomination. In 2019, Rolling Stone named Interstate Gospel as one of their top ten albums of the decade, ranking it at 9.

Contents

Background

Announced on September 27, 2018, the Pistol Annies released three tracks, "Interstate Gospel", "Got My Name Changed Back" and "Best Years of My Life", as well as revealing the album title and cover art in a press release. [1] "Stop, Drop and Roll One" was released as the fourth track on October 12. [2] On October 17, the Annies debuted a fifth track, "Sugar Daddy", releasing it immediately following a performance on the CMT Artists of the Year telecast. [3] "Masterpiece" was released on October 26. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.0/10 [5]
Metacritic 85/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
Exclaim! 9/10 [8]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Newsday Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [10]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [11]
PopMatters 7/10 [12]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Uncut 8/10 [14]
Vice (Expert Witness)A [15]

The album received widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 85, based on 9 reviews. [6]

Rolling Stone ranked "Got My Name Changed Back" at #143 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking in May 2024. [16]

Commercial performance

Interstate Gospel debuted at number fifteen on the US Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top Country Albums chart with first week sales of 26,500 copies in pure album sales (30,000 in equivalent album units). [17] [18] The album is also Pistol Annies' first number one on the Americana/Folk Albums chart. [18]

As of March 2020, the album has sold 80,700 copies in the United States. [19]

In the United Kingdom, Interstate Gospel debuted at number one on the UK Country Albums chart.

Track listing

All tracks written by Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, except "This Too Shall Pass", which was written by Monroe and Presley. [20]

No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Interstate Prelude"Presley, Monroe1:06
2."Stop, Drop and Roll One"Lambert, Monroe, Presley3:02
3."Best Years of My Life"Monroe, Presley, Lambert3:42
4."5 Acres of Turnips"Presley, Lambert2:55
5."When I Was His Wife"Lambert, Monroe, Presley3:29
6."Cheyenne"Lambert4:16
7."Got My Name Changed Back"Lambert2:54
8."Sugar Daddy"Lambert, Presley, Monroe3:38
9."Leavers Lullaby"Monroe4:01
10."Milkman"Lambert, Presley, Monroe3:22
11."Commissary"Presley3:35
12."Masterpiece"Lambert4:38
13."Interstate Gospel"Presley, Monroe3:01
14."This Too Shall Pass"Presley, Monroe3:02
Total length:46:41

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes. [21]

Charts

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