All Jacked Up Explained

All Jacked Up
Type:studio
Artist:Gretchen Wilson
Cover:Alljackedup.jpg
Released:September 27, 2005
Recorded:2004–2005
Studio:Ocean Way Nashville and Sony/Tree Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
Length:
  • 41:56 (Standard Edition)
  • 45:30 (Target Bonus Track Version)
Label:Epic Nashville
Prev Title:Here for the Party
Prev Year:2004
Next Title:One of the Boys
Next Year:2007

All Jacked Up is the second studio album by American country music artist Gretchen Wilson, released on September 27, 2005 through Epic Nashville Records. After the massive success of her debut album Here for the Party (2004), Wilson went back into the studio to record its follow-up. Wilson worked with mostly the same team as her debut, with the album being produced by John Rich, Wilson, and Mark Wright.

When it was released, All Jacked Up received positive reviews from music critics but many felt that Wilson was trying "way too hard" to replicate the success of Here for the Party. The album went on to debut atop the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums charts with 264,000 copies sold first week, Wilson's highest first week sales.[1] Sales for the album started declining due to the poor success of its singles.

"All Jacked Up" served as the lead single from the record on August 1, 2005. It broke the record for the then-highest debut on the US Hot Country Songs chart by a female artist when it debuted at number 21; despite that, the song only peaked at number eight (becoming her last top ten hit to date) and received a mostly-negative reception among country radio. The second single "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" became Wilson's first single to miss the top-twenty, peaking at number 22 at country radio. The other singles "Politically Uncorrect", which was a duet with Merle Haggard, and "California Girls" were both moderately received, peaking at numbers 23 and 25; the latter single was released through Columbia Nashville after Epic Records closed its country division. Compared to her debut, All Jacked Up was less successful, only being certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of one million copies in the United States.

Also featured on this album are "He Ain't Even Cold Yet" (which was originally recorded by Ken Mellons on his 1995 album Where Forever Begins) and a remake of Billie Holiday's pop standard "Good Morning Heartache".

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[2]

Production

Chart performance

Year-end charts

2005 year-end chart performance for All Jacked Up! Chart (2005)! Position
US Billboard 200[4] 116
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[5] 19
2006 year-end chart performance for All Jacked Up! Chart (2006)! Position
US Billboard 200[6] 121
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 23

Singles

Year! rowspan="2"
SinglePeak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[8]
US
[9]
2005"All Jacked Up"842
"I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today"22109
2006"Politically Uncorrect" (featuring Merle Haggard)[A]23
"California Girls"25121
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rock on the Net: Gretchen Wilson.
  2. All Jacked Up . Gretchen Wilson . 2005 . CD booklet . Epic Records . 94990.
  3. 304.
  4. Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2005. Billboard. August 28, 2020.
  5. Top Country Albums – Year-End 2005. Billboard. August 28, 2020.
  6. Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2006. Billboard. August 28, 2020.
  7. Top Country Albums – Year-End 2006. Billboard. August 28, 2020.
  8. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=gretchen wilson|chart=Country Songs}} Gretchen Wilson Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs ]. . November 14, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101113152918/http://www.billboard.com/ . 13 November 2010 . dead .
  9. Peak chart positions for charted singles on the Hot 100:
    • [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=gretchen wilson|chart=Hot 100}} Gretchen Wilson Album & Song Chart History - Hot 100 ]. . November 24, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101124005049/http://www.billboard.com/ . 24 November 2010 . live .
    • Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 471. 2008. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  10. Web site: RIAA - Gold & Platinum - November 24, 2010: "All Jacked Up" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. November 24, 2010.