You Get What You Give | ||||
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Studio album by Zac Brown Band | ||||
Released | September 21, 2010 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 60:39 | |||
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Atlantic Bigger Picture Southern Ground |
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Producer | Zac Brown Keith Stegall |
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Zac Brown Band chronology | ||||
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Singles from You Get What You Give | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AbsolutePunk | (79%) |
Allmusic | |
Associated Press | (favorable) |
The Badger Herald | |
The Boston Globe | (mixed) |
Country Weekly | |
Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
The Hartford Courant | (favorable) |
Roughstock | |
Slant Magazine |
You Get What You Give is the second studio album by the Zac Brown Band. It was released on September 21, 2010. As of September 2015, the album has sold 1.9 million copies in the United States.
Zac Brown wrote or co-wrote all songs on the album. The tracks "Let It Go," "Who Knows," "Whiskey's Gone," "Colder Weather," and "Make This Day" were previously live versions on their album Pass the Jar. The live versions of "Let It Go" and "Martin" were previously bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of their album The Foundation. The live version of "Whiskey's Gone" also appeared on the soundtrack to True Blood, in 2008. "As She's Walking Away" and "Knee Deep" contain guest vocals from Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett respectively.
"As She's Walking Away," a duet with Alan Jackson was released as the first single on August 23, 2010. It debuted at #32 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for the week of August 28, 2010. "Colder Weather" the album's second single on released to country radio on December 20, 2010. It charted as number-one on country radio on April 16, 2011 and stayed at the top for 2 weeks. It has since sold 1 million copies in digital sales. "Knee Deep" was released as the third single from the album. It charted as number-one on country radio on August 13, 2011, taking 16 weeks to reach top. "Keep Me In Mind" was released as a digital single on September 13, 2010, a week prior to the album's release, and was later released as the 4th single from the album to country radio in August 2011.
Upon its release, You Get What You Give 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 80, based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".