Thirty Miles West | ||||
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Studio album by Alan Jackson | ||||
Released | June 5, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2011-2012 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 52:21 | |||
Label | Alan's Country Records EMI Nashville |
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Producer | Keith Stegall | |||
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Singles from Thirty Miles West | ||||
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Source | Rating |
About.com | |
Allmusic | |
Country Weekly | (positive) |
Los Angeles Times | |
The New York Times | (average) |
The Washington Post | (average) |
Thirty Miles West is the fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. 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. The album includes the singles "Long Way to Go," "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" and "You Go Your Way."
The album's title refers to a song about a stretch of the Dixie Highway near Jackson's hometown of Newnan, Georgia. The song, "Dixie Highway," is a duet with Zac Brown.
Upon its release, Thirty Miles West 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 75, based on 4 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".