Road Less Traveled (Lauren Alaina album)
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| Studio album by Lauren Alaina | ||||
| Released | January 27, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2013–16 | |||
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| Length | 42:08 | |||
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| Producer | busbee | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Roughstock | Positive |
| Sounds Like Nashville | Positive |
| Taste of Country | Mixed |
| The Young Folks | 6/10 |
Road Less Traveled is the second studio album by American country music artist Lauren Alaina. The album was released on January 27, 2017, by Mercury Nashville and Interscope Records. It includes the number one single of the same name.
In January 2013, Alaina tweeted that she had started recording for her second album. She released a new song, "Barefoot and Buckwild", as the record's purported lead single in May 2013, however it failed to perform on the charts. In August 2014, Alaina underwent vocal surgery; after her recovery, she returned to the studio to work on new material with a "more mature" feel. By June 2015, she stated that the album was nearly finished. Alaina has said that this album will be different from her first and describes it as, "[having] some fun songs and sad songs – a little bit of what my life has been like over the past few years."
The album features four tracks that are on Alaina's self-titled EP, which was released in October 2015. Alaina announced the album's title and track listing on December 5, 2016. Alaina co-wrote all twelve tracks over three and a half years.Road Less Traveled became available for pre-order on December 16, 2016. She cowrote all twelve songs on the album.
"Next Boyfriend" was released as the album's first single on September 15, 2015.
The title track, "Road Less Traveled" was released as the album's second single on July 11, 2016. It had previously served as the second single from Alaina's 2015 self-titled EP.
"Doin' Fine" is scheduled to impact American country radio on May 22, 2017 as the album's third single. On June 6, 2017 it debuted on the Country AirPlay chart at 59.
"Queen of Hearts" was released to digital retailers as the album's first promotional single on December 30, 2016. "Same Day Different Bottle" was released as the second promotional single on January 13, 2017.
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