No Doubt About It (album) explained

No Doubt About It
Type:studio
Artist:Neal McCoy
Cover:neal_ndai.jpg
Released:February 8, 1994
Recorded:1993
Studio:OmniSound Studio, Sound Stage Studios, Woodland Digital Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre:Country
Length:35:55
Label:Atlantic
Producer:Barry Beckett
Prev Title:Where Forever Begins
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:You Gotta Love That!
Next Year:1995

No Doubt About It is the third studio album by American country music artist Neal McCoy. Released in 1994, it is considered his breakthrough album, and has been certified platinum in the United States.[1] Both the album's title track and "Wink" reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, the latter holding its peak position for four weeks. The album's third single, "The City Put the Country Back in Me", was also a Top 5 hit.

Critical reception

In New Country magazine, Brian Mansfield referred to the lyrics of other songs as "rang[ing] from the simple-minded to the genuinely embarrassing" and gave the album two stars out of five.[2] He was more positive in his review for Allmusic, giving it four-and-a-half stars and saying that it "was the first to capture the rock-influenced sound of McCoy's stage show."[3]

Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a C− rating, criticizing the title track in particular: "If radio thinks this blander-than-generic ballad is the future of country, we might as well just move to the middle of the road right now."[4]

Personnel

Charts

Singles

YearSinglePeak positions
US CountryCAN Country
1993"No Doubt About It" 11
1994"Wink"11
"The City Put the Country Back in Me"511
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1720|pure_url=yes}} Neal McCoy Biography ]. December 23, 2007 . Huey . Steve . Allmusic.
  2. Mansfield. Brian. March 1994. Album reviews: No Doubt About It. New Country. 1. 1. 46. 1074-536X.
  3. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r202309|pure_url=yes}} ''No Doubt About It'' review]. Mansfield. Brian. Allmusic. February 5, 2010.
  4. No Doubt About It review. https://web.archive.org/web/20081008030730/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,301547,00.html. dead. October 8, 2008. Nash. Alanna. March 25, 1994. Entertainment Weekly. February 5, 2010.
  5. Top Country Albums – Year-End 1994. Billboard. September 16, 2021.