Nightfall (Little Big Town album)

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Nightfall
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Studio album by
Little Big Town
ReleasedJanuary 17, 2020 (2020-01-17)
Studio
  • Sound Emporium (Nashville)
  • House of Blues (Nashville)
  • Dark Horse (Franklin)
  • Blackbird (Nashville)
  • Southern Ground (Nashville)
  • Ivory & Rye (Nashville)
Genre Country [1]
Length46:13
Label Capitol Nashville
Producer
Little Big Town chronology
The Breaker
(2017)		Nightfall
(2020)		 Mr. Sun
(2022)
Singles from Nightfall
  1. "The Daughters"
    Released: April 2019
  2. "Over Drinking"
    Released: September 16, 2019
  3. "Wine, Beer, Whiskey"
    Released: June 1, 2020

Nightfall is the ninth studio album by American country music group Little Big Town. It was released on January 17, 2020, by Capitol Nashville, and was self produced by Little Big Town with major production assistance from Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk. It includes the singles "Over Drinking", "The Daughters", and "Wine, Beer, Whiskey". [2] It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Album and both "The Daughters" and "Sugar Coat" were nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 74/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [5]
No Ripcord6/10 [6]

Nightfall received positive reviews from music critics, respectively. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 74 based on 4 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The album placed fourth on the Billboard list of Top Country Albums of 2020. Billboard editors described the band as reaching "substantive emotional richness that few groups can touch" on the album.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "The labor is evident, particularly in the careful construction of the compositions and the subtle shading on individual tracks" and "it's music for meditative mornings or for afternoons in need of a dose of consolation and comfort." He also compared the band's sound favorably to Fleetwood Mac. [1]

Commercial performance

Nightfall debuted at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with 31,000 equivalent album units, 26,000 in of which are in traditional album sales. [7] As of March 2020, it has sold 43,800 copies in the United States. [8]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Little Big Town, except where noted.

Nightfall track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Next to You"
  • Michael Jade
  • Trevor Jarvis
  • Hillary Reynolds
4:06
2."Nightfall" (prod.: Little Big Town, Ian Fitchuk, Daniel Tashian)
  • Karen Fairchild
  • Fancy Hagood
  • Daniel Tashian
Fairchild3:21
3."Forever and a Night"
Phillip Sweet4:26
4."Throw Your Love Away"
Kimberly Schlapman3:44
5."Over Drinking"
Fairchild3:10
6."Wine, Beer, Whiskey"
Westbrook3:16
7."Questions" (prod.: Little Big Town, Jon Green)
  • Fairchild
  • Jon Green
  • Sara Haze
Fairchild3:04
8."The Daughters"
  • Ashley Ray
  • Fairchild
  • McConnell
Fairchild3:32
9."River of Stars" (prod.: Little Big Town, Fitchuk, Tashian)
  • Fairchild
  • Fitchuk
  • Tashian
  • Fairchild
  • Westbrook
3:37
10."Sugar Coat" (prod.: Little Big Town, Tofer Brown)
  • Josh Kerr
  • McKenna
  • Jordyn Shellhart
Fairchild3:40
11."Problem Child" (prod.: Little Big Town, Brown)
  • Brown
  • Fairchild
  • McConnell
  • Schlapman
  • Sweet
  • Westbrook
Westbrook3:35
12."Bluebird" (prod.: Little Big Town, Fitchuk, Tashian)
  • Fairchild
  • Fitchuk
  • Tashian
Fairchild3:11
13."Trouble with Forever"
Fairchild3:31
Total length:46:13

Personnel

Little Big Town

Additional musicians

Technical

Visuals

Charts

Notes

  1. ↑ Lombardo is erroneously credited as "Tom Lombardo" on tracks 2 and 12. [9]

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