This Ride Explained
This Ride is the sixth album by American country music singer Jerrod Niemann. It is his first release for Curb Records, and it was issued on October 6, 2017. The album includes the single "A Little More Love", a duet with labelmate Lee Brice.
Content
The album's first two singles, "A Little More Love" and "God Made a Woman", respectively charted at No. 28 and No. 55 on Country Airplay in advance of the album's release.[1]
Critical reception
Rating it 3.5 out of 5 stars, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "Maybe Niemann will never be as weird as he was on Free the Music, but on This Ride he manages to convey his own amiable, slightly left of center personality within mainstream country-pop, and that's more than enough."[2] Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal rated the album "A", saying that "there is something in it for everybody" and praising "God Made a Woman" as the strongest song.[3]
Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 28 on the Country Album Sales chart,[4] selling 1,400 copies in the first week.[5]
Personnel
- Lee Brice – duet vocals on "A Little More Love"
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Luke Dick – electric guitar
- David Dorn – keyboards
- Kenny Greenberg – e-bow, electric guitar, slide guitar
- Wes Hightower – background vocals
- Evan Hutchings – drums, keyboards, percussion, programming, synthesizer
- Gene Johnson – background vocals on "I Ain't All There"
- Charlie Judge – Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, piano, synthesizer, strings, string arrangements
- Troy Lancaster – electric guitar
- Blair Masters – clavinet, keyboards, piano, programming, synthesizer, Wurlitzer
- Rob McNelley – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Lance Miller – background vocals
- Carl Miner – acoustic guitar
- Greg Morrow – drums
- Jerrod Niemann – lead vocals, background vocals
- Nick Norman – background vocals
- Jimmy Olander – electric guitar on "I Ain't All There"
- Russ Pahl – steel guitar
- Danny Rader – banjo, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, mandolin
- Kip Raines – percussion
- Marty Roe – background vocals on "I Ain't All There"
- Justin Schipper – steel guitar
- Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar, electric guitar, Hammond B-3 organ, ukulele
- Russell Terrell – background vocals
- Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar
- Derek Wells – electric guitar
- Dana Williams – background vocals on "I Ain't All There"
- John Willis – acoustic guitar
- Nir "Z" Zidkyahu – drums, programming
Notes and References
- [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=jerrod niemann|chart=Country Airplay}} Jerrod Niemann: Chart History: Country Airplay]. Billboard. 8 November 2012.
- Web site: This Ride review. AllMusic. 24 October 2017.
- Web site: Review: Jerrod Niemann upbeat on new country album 'This Ride'. October 6, 2017. Digital Journal. 24 October 2017.
- Country Album Sales . October 28, 2017 . Billboard . subscription .
- News: Top 10 Country Albums Sales Chart: October 17, 2017 . Matt . Bjorke . October 17, 2017 . Roughstock .
