| Thirty Miles West | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Alan Jackson |
| Cover: | ThirtyMilesWest.jpg |
| Recorded: | 2011–2012 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 52:21 |
| Label: | Alan's Country Records EMI Nashville |
| Producer: | Keith Stegall[1] |
| Prev Title: | 34 Number Ones |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
Thirty Miles West is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson.[2] It was released on June 5, 2012, and is Jackson's first album on his own Alan's Country Records in a joint venture with EMI Nashville.[3] The album includes the singles "Long Way to Go," "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" and "You Go Your Way."[4]
The album's title refers to a song about a stretch of the Dixie Highway near Jackson's hometown of Newnan, Georgia.[5] The song, "Dixie Highway," is a duet with Zac Brown.[6]
Upon its release, Thirty Miles West received generally positive reviews from most music critics.[7] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 4 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[7]
| Chart (2012) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| US Billboard 200[8] | 124 | |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[9] | 26 |