Steel Magnolia (album)
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| Studio album by Steel Magnolia | ||||
| Released | January 11, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 46:08 | |||
| Label | Big Machine | |||
| Producer | Dann Huff | |||
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| The Boston Globe | (favorable) |
| Country Weekly | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
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| Slant Magazine | |
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Steel Magnolia is the self-titled and only studio album from country music duo Steel Magnolia. The album was released on January 11, 2011, via Big Machine Records. Prior to the release of the album, the duo released an extended play titled Steel Magnolia — EP on February 23, 2010.
The album features each of Steel Magnolia's three singles: "Keep On Lovin' You", "Just By Being You (Halo and Wings)" and "Last Night Again". The first two singles both reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, while the third single was released on December 6, 2010.
"Homespun Love", a song co-written by Keith Urban, was originally recorded by him as a member of American band The Ranch, in 1997.
After many delays of the album's release, it charted within the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 and Billboard Top Country Albums, where it debuted at number 7 and number 3, respectively. In the album's opening week, it sold 28,346 copies in the United States. As of the chart dated April 2, 2011, the album has sold 93,493 copies in the US.
Upon its release, Steel Magnolia received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
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