Jeff Bridges (album)

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Jeff Bridges
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Studio album by
Jeff Bridges
ReleasedAugust 16, 2011 (2011-08-16)
Recorded Brooklyn, New York
Los Angeles, California
Genre Country
Length40:11
Label Blue Note/EMI
Producer T-Bone Burnett
Jeff Bridges chronology
Be Here Soon
(2000)		Jeff Bridges
(2011)		 Sleeping Tapes
(2015)
Singles from Jeff Bridges
  1. "What a Little Bit of Love Can Do"
    Released: August 15, 2011

Jeff Bridges is the self-titled debut album of American actor and singer-songwriter Jeff Bridges. It was released on August 16, 2011, via Blue Note Records and EMI Records. On April 19, 2011, it was announced through CMT that Bridges had signed a recording contract with Blue Note Records and will work with producer T-Bone Burnett. [1]

Contents

The song "What a Little Bit of Love Can Do" was released as the first single on August 15, 2011. [2]

Background

Bridges starred in the film Crazy Heart in 2009, where he portrayed a fallen country music singer. On the soundtrack to the film, Bridges sang five of the sixteen songs. In 2011, he signed with jazz music label Blue Note Records, where they announced Bridges would record and release his debut album later that year.

On May 23, 2011, the official track listing and other information regarding the album was released. [3] Ryan Bingham, Rosanne Cash, Sam Phillips and Benji Hughes appear as guest vocalists on the album. [3]

The opening track, "What a Little Bit of Love Can Do", was released as the lead-off single on August 15, 2011. It was released to Triple A radio format.

Reception

Commercial

The album was expected to debut on the Billboard 200 within the Top 40, [4] and did indeed debut at number 25 as well at number 10 on the Top Country Albums, number two on Folk Albums and number 5 on the Top Rock Albums chart. [5] It has sold 345,000 copies. [6]

Critical

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Cinema BlendStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Engine145Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Taste of CountryStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Spin 5/10 [13]

Sam Gazdziak, of Engine145, reviewed the album and gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five. [9] Gazdziak praised the album for its custom sound, along with each songwriter and guest vocalists. He described the album as "slow", noting that Bridges "growls" through the slower songs. Gazdziak also noted that "Tumbling Vine" and "Falling Short", songs Bridges wrote himself, are nicely sung and arranged, though they tend to be a little too dense and esoteric. [9]

Spin gave the album a score of 5/10, writing, "Bridges' country-fried drawl gets wonky (see the shuffling 'Blue Car'), but when the pieces come together – as on laid-back, folksy charmers like 'Everything but Love' and 'Maybe I Missed the Point' – the result is as comfortable and unpretentious as the Dude's bathrobe." [13]

Taste of Country reviewer Billy Dukes gave the album a one-and-half out of five-star rating. [12] Dukes criticized the album for being too slow, and compared the album to teenagers at a bowling alley playing a game. [12] Dukes closed his review by saying that "if [Bridges] wants his music career to take off, [Bridges] may be wise to ask Bad Blake, Bridges' character in Crazy Heart , how he'd sing these songs." [12]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, of Allmusic, rated the album two-and-a-half stars out of five. [7] He criticized T-Bone Burnett for making the album "artificially authentic" and "drowsy Americana mythology". He also said that Bridges is trying to be cool, and that the production of the album resembled a "shuffling snail". [7]

Rolling Stone gave the album three stars out of five. [10] Reviewer Will Hermes pointed out that "What a Little Bit of Love Can Do" is the highlight of the album. Hermes also praised Bridges' leathery voice, which makes the music sound "lived-in". [10]

Track listing

Jeff Bridges track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."What a Little Bit of Love Can Do" Stephen Bruton, Gary Nicholson 3:38
2."Falling Short"Jeff Bridges3:19
3."Everything But Love"John Goodwin4:26
4."Tumbling Vine"Bridges2:29
5."Nothing Yet"Bruton4:28
6."Blue Car" Greg Brown 4:24
7."Maybe I Missed the Point"Goodwin3:31
8."Slow Boat"Bridges, Burnett, Thomas Cobb 6:01
9."Either Way"Robert Franklin Ramsey4:53
10."The Quest"Goodwin2:56

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart performance for Jeff Bridges
Chart (2011)Peak
US Billboard 200 [14] 25
US Billboard Top Country Albums [14] 10
US Billboard Top Folk Albums [14] 2
US Billboard Top Rock Albums [14] 5

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  2. ↑ "Future Releases on Triple A (AAA) Radio Stations". All Access. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
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