It Goes Like This
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| It Goes Like This | ||||
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| Released | October 29, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2012–13 | |||
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| Length | 41:23 | |||
| Label | Valory[1] | |||
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| Thomas Rhett chronology | ||||
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| Singles from It Goes Like This | ||||
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It Goes Like This is the debut studio album by American country music singer Thomas Rhett. It was released on October 29, 2013, via Valory Music Group.[1] The album's release was announced on August 22.[3]
It includes the singles "It Goes Like This",[4] "Get Me Some of That", and "Make Me Wanna". It also includes the previously released singles "Something to Do with My Hands" and "Beer with Jesus" from Rhett's prior self-titled EP release.
Jay Joyce produced six of the album's tracks, of which five previously appeared on Rhett's self-titled extended play. Michael Knox and Luke Laird produce three tracks each.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [5] |
| Roughstock | [6] |
The album received positive reviews from critics. Steve Leggett of Allmusic rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying that "It's a solidly professional outing, featuring all three of his singles and other tracks of similar construction, and it's full of energy, good humor, and the kind of backroad good-old-boy wisdom that everybody seems to love these days, even if it feeds more off nostalgia than reality."[5] Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock called it "a very good, musically diverse debut album, an album which should find some sort of an audience."[6]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer[6] | Length |
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| 1. | "Whatcha Got in That Cup" | Jay Joyce | 2:59 | |
| 2. | "Something to Do with My Hands" | Joyce | 3:20 | |
| 3. | "Get Me Some of That" | Luke Laird | 3:09 | |
| 4. | "Call Me Up" | Laird | 3:15 | |
| 5. | "It Goes Like This" | Michael Knox | 3:06 | |
| 6. | "Make Me Wanna" |
| Joyce | 3:46 |
| 7. | "Front Porch Junkies" (remix) | Joyce | 3:44 | |
| 8. | "In a Minute" |
| Knox | 3:41 |
| 9. | "Take You Home" | Knox | 3:39 | |
| 10. | "Sorry for Partyin'" |
| Laird | 3:29 |
| 11. | "All-American Middle Class White Boy" |
| Joyce | 2:59 |
| 12. | "Beer with Jesus" |
| Joyce | 4:15 |
| Total length: | 41:23 | |||
Personnel
- Thomas Rhett – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums
- Tony Harrell – acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ
- Matt Stanfield – keyboards
- Jody Stevens – programming
- Jay Joyce – Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 organ, synth strings, programming, baritone guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
- J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Jedd Hughes – electric guitar
- Rob McNelley – electric guitar, dobro
- Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
- Joel Key – acoustic guitar, banjo
- Luke Laird – acoustic guitar
- John Osborne – acoustic guitar, banjo
- Danny Rader – acoustic guitar
- Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar
- Ed Williams – acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
- Steve Fishell – pedal steel guitar
- Mike Johnson – steel guitar
- Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
- Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar, Jew's harp
- Lee Hendricks – bass guitar
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
- Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion
- Fred Eltringham – drums, percussion
- Greg Morrow – drums, drum programming
- Craig Wright – drums, percussion
- Rich Redmond – percussion
- Brett Warren – harmonica, backing vocals
- Rhett Akins – backing vocals
- Danielle Bradbery – backing vocals
- Whitney Cheshier – backing vocals
- Mickey Jack Cones – backing vocals
- Virginia Davis – backing vocals
- Drew Gaw – backing vocals
- Kelsea Granda – backing vocals
- Jace Hall – backing vocals
- Tom Luteran – backing vocals
- Gloria Martinez – backing vocals
- Mark Martinez – backing vocals
- Alex Quattlebaum – backing vocals
- Nichole Rodriguez – backing vocals
- Jess Rosen – backing vocals
- Julie Stuckey – backing vocals
- Russell Terrell – backing vocals
- Samantha Thornton – backing vocals
- Kelly Tillotson – backing vocals
- Brad Warren – backing vocals
