Two Lanes of Freedom | ||||
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Released | February 5, 2013 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 45:50 | |||
Label | Big Machine | |||
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Two Lanes of Freedom is the twelfth studio album by the American country music singer Tim McGraw. It was released on February 5, 2013, as his first album for Big Machine Records following twenty years with Curb Records. He co-produced the album with Byron Gallimore, the producer of his previously released albums. [1] The album includes the singles "Truck Yeah", "One of Those Nights", "Highway Don't Care" with Taylor Swift and "Southern Girl". [2]
McGraw told The Boot writer Beville Dunkerley about the lawsuit that allowed him to end his decades-long contract with Curb Records and the making of the album. [3] "Nothing good happens from anything without concentrating on what you do musically,... All this other stuff you can't do anything about...You can't make people do the things that you think are right, but you can make your music the way you want to make your music and that's what I concentrate on." Of his "mindset" behind the album, he said, "There's something special about this record to me, in the optimism that it has,...I'm looking forward to more stuff than I've ever had happen before; there's more ahead of me than behind me. I feel like I've grabbed another gear." He added what he sees in his future as a music artist, "I don't think I'm anywhere close to doing the things I want to do. There's so much more ahead of me, and I have a lot of room to get better... Sonically, there's a freshness to this record and a drive behind it that is new to me and headed in a different place. But I won't know that until I go into the studio for the next record and see where it takes me."
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | (66/100) [4] |
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On release, Two Lanes of Freedom received generally positive reviews from most music critics. [4] At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [4] The album had positive reviews from AllMusic , American Songwriter , Country Weekly , The Lantern The Plain Dealer , Roughstock, Taste of Country and USA Today . On the other hand, the album received mixed reviews from Country Universe, Los Angeles Times , Omaha World-Herald , PopMatters and Rolling Stone .
Two Lanes of Freedom sold approximately 107,000 copies during its first week of release, reaching No. 1 on the country albums chart and No. 2 on the Billboard 200. [16] By September 18, 2013, the album had sold 421,000 copies. [17]
All tracks are produced by Byron Gallimore and Tim McGraw.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Two Lanes of Freedom" | Jaren Johnston, Jennifer Schott | 4:26 |
2. | "One of Those Nights" | Luke Laird, Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins | 3:56 |
3. | "Friend of a Friend" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Mark Irwin, Josh Kear, Andrew Dorff | 5:13 |
4. | "Southern Girl" | Johnston, Clawson, Lee Thomas Miller | 4:15 |
5. | "Truck Yeah" | Chris Janson, Danny Myrick, Preston Brust, Chris Lucas | 3:29 |
6. | "Nashville Without You" | Kyle Jacobs, Joe Leathers, Ruston Kelly | 3:37 |
7. | "Book of John" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Jon Nite, Greg Becker | 3:28 |
8. | "Mexicoma" | James T. Slater, Brad Warren, Brett Warren | 3:33 |
9. | "Number 37405" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Tom Douglas, Troy Jones | 4:45 |
10. | "It's Your World" | Scott Stepakoff, Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally | 4:29 |
11. | "Highway Don't Care" (with Taylor Swift featuring Keith Urban) | Irwin, Kear, Brad Warren, Brett Warren | 4:36 |
Total length: | 45:50 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Two Lanes of Freedom" | Jaren Johnston, Jenn Schott | 4:26 |
2. | "One of Those Nights" | Luke Laird, Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins | 3:56 |
3. | "Friend of a Friend" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Mark Irwin, Josh Kear, Andrew Dorff | 5:13 |
4. | "Southern Girl" | Johnston, Clawson, Lee Thomas Miller | 4:15 |
5. | "Truck Yeah" | Chris Janson, Danny Myrick, Preston Brust, Chris Lucas | 3:29 |
6. | "Nashville Without You" | Kyle Jacobs, Joe Leathers, Ruston Kelly | 3:37 |
7. | "Book of John" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Jon Nite, Greg Becker | 3:28 |
8. | "Annie I Owe You a Dance" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | James T. Slater, Tom Douglas | 3:44 |
9. | "Mexicoma" | Slater, Brad Warren, Brett Warren | 3:33 |
10. | "Number 37405" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Douglas, Troy Jones | 4:45 |
11. | "It's Your World" | Scott Stepakoff, Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally | 4:29 |
12. | "Tinted Windows" (featuring string arrangements by David Campbell) | Irwin, Kear, Dorff | 4:13 |
13. | "Highway Don't Care" (featuring Taylor Swift, with Keith Urban on guitar) | Irwin, Kear, Brad Warren, Brett Warren | 4:36 |
14. | "Truck Yeah" (live) | Janson, Myrick, Brust, Lucas | 4:16 |
15. | "Let Me Love It Out of You" | Rachel Thibodeau, Jason Sever, David Tolliver | 5:34 |
Total length: | 63:37 |
Musicians on "Truck Yeah (Live)"
Studios
Chart (2013–2014) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA) [18] | 10 |
Canadian Albums Chart | 4 |
China Album Chart [19] | 18 |
US Billboard 200 | 2 [20] |
US Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 [20] |
US Billboard Top Digital Albums | 1 [20] |
UK Albums Chart [21] | 43 |
UK Country Albums (OCC) [22] | 1 |
Chart (2013) | Position |
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US Billboard 200 [23] | 58 |
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [24] | 14 |
Chart (2014) | Position |
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US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [25] | 75 |
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||||
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US Country | US Country Airplay | US | CAN Country [26] | CAN | ||
2012 | "Truck Yeah" | 11 | 10 | 57 | — | 52 |
"One of Those Nights" | 3 | 1 | 32 | 1 | 38 | |
2013 | "Highway Don't Care" | 4 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 21 |
"Southern Girl" | 4 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 61 | |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [27] | Gold | 40,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [28] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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