Let It Go (Tim McGraw album)

Let It Go
Studio album by Tim McGraw
Released	March 27, 2007 (2007-03-27)
Genre	Country
Length	52:39
Label	Curb
Producer	Byron Gallimore Tim McGraw Darran Smith
Tim McGraw chronology
Tim McGraw Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (2006) Let It Go (2007) Greatest Hits: Limited Edition (2008)
Singles from Let It Go
"Last Dollar (Fly Away)" Released: January 8, 2007 "I Need You" Released: April 23, 2007 "If You're Reading This" Released: June 11, 2007 "Suspicions" Released: November 26, 2007 "Kristofferson" Released: March 17, 2008 "Let It Go" Released: July 21, 2008 "Nothin' to Die For" Released: January 5, 2009

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(73/100) [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[2]
Allmusic	[3]
The Boston Globe	(positive) [4]
Country Weekly	(favorable) [5]
Entertainment Weekly	B− [6]
Los Angeles Times	[7]
People	[8]
Plugged In	(unfavorable) [9]
PopMatters	[10]
Robert Christgau	[11]
Stylus Magazine	B− [12]
Engine 145	[13]

Let It Go is the ninth studio album by Tim McGraw. Released on March 27, 2007, it was his first studio album in two and a half years. Let It Go entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at number one with sales of 325,000. The album has produced seven Top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including a number one; one of those seven songs was only included on later issues of the album. Of all McGraw's albums, this one has produced the most singles in his career.

Content

The first single from the album, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (written by Big Kenny of Big & Rich), reached the top of the country charts in early 2007, giving McGraw his first number one hit since "Back When" in late 2004. Following it was "I Need You", a duet with his wife Faith Hill. This song peaked at #7. Shortly after the latter was released, McGraw charted with a live rendition of the song "If You're Reading This". He performed that song live at the Academy of Country Music awards in May 2007. A month after this song entered the charts, the album was re-issued with "If You're Reading This" added to the track listing. Afterwards, that song was later officially issued as the album's third single and reached #3 on the country charts.

"If You're Reading This" was followed in late 2007 by "Suspicions", a cover of Eddie Rabbitt's number one hit from 1979. However, McGraw's version became the second Top 40 hit of all his career to miss the Top 20 by peaking at #12 on Hot Country Songs. Following that song were "Kristofferson" and the title track in 2008; the former also failed to make the Top Ten by at #16 while the latter went to #2 in early December. The seventh single, "Nothin' to Die For", was released in January 2009. It entered the Hot Country Songs chart as an album cut at #57 in late December before its official release that month.

Track listing

Chart performance

Let It Go entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at # 1, his fourth #1 album, and on the Top Country Albums number-one album his eleventh album at #1.

Singles

Personnel

Tim McGraw & the Dancehall Docters

• Dean Brown - fiddle, mandolin
• David Dunkley - percussion
• Denny Hemingson - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, steel guitar, Dobro, baritone guitar, slide guitar
• John Marcus - bass guitar
• Billy Mason - drums, percussion
• Tim McGraw - lead vocals
• Jeff McMahon - piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer
• Bob Miner - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, banjo
• Darran Smith - electric guitar, acoustic guitar

Additional Musicians

• Byron Gallimore - acoustic guitar, synthesizer
• Faith Hill - duet vocals on "I Need You" and Shotgun Rider"

Background Vocals

• Greg Barnhill
• Wes Hightower
• Last Dollar Singers on "Last Dollar (Fly Away)"
• Ella Rose
• Russell Terrell

References

External links

• Let It Go at Metacritic