The Love Songs (Clint Black album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Love Songs
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Clint Black


Released = January 30, 2007
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length =
Label = Equity
Producer = Clint Black
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zen8b594fsqg link]
Last album = "Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic" (2005)
This album = "The Love Songs" (2007)
Next album =

"The Love Songs" is a 2007 (see 2007 in music) album by country singer Clint Black. It consists of newly recorded versions of many of his love songs along with a cover version of Jim Croce's "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".

According to Black, many of the songs remain true to the original version while a few get a slight update. "I wanted to do a record that's not just a reissue of hits," Black said. "Sometimes when I go back and revisit my older recordings, I find little things that, in hindsight, I feel I could improve on just a bit—some new twist that might make it just a little bit better. It might be a slight change in the arrangement, or the way vocals are layered. And there were also times when I listened to a particular recording and felt there really wasn't a change that would make it better."

The album cover was designed by Peter Max and depicts Black with wife Lisa Hartman Black.

Track listing

#"When I Said I Do" (Black) – 4:33
#*Duet with Lisa Hartman Black.
#"You Made Me Feel" (Black, Michael McDonald) – 4:33
#"Something That We Do" (Black, Skip Ewing) – 4:38
#"Our Kind of Love" (Black, Shake Russell) – 4:06
#*duet with Carolyn Dawn Johnson
#"My Imagination" (Black, Matt Rollings) – 3:53
#"Like the Rain" (Black, Hayden Nicholas) – 4:15
#"You Know It All" (Black, Steve Wariner) – 4:24
#"That Something in My Life" (Black, Kostas) – 2:55
#"One Emotion" (Black, Nicholas) – 2:51
#"Half the Man" (Black, Nicholas) – 3:04
#"Easy for Me to Say" (Black, Nicholas) – 5:33
#*duet with Lisa Hartman Black
#"I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" (Jim Croce) – 2:34

Personnel

Band

*Clint Black—acoustic guitar, harmonica, percussion, electric guitar, vocals, background vocals, bass harp
*Hayden Nicholas—electric guitar
*Bryan Austin—acoustic guitar, background vocals
*Dane Bryant—piano, keyboards, background vocals
*Lenny Castro—percussion
*Perry Coleman—background vocals
*Steve Dorff—conductor, orchestral arrangements
*Stuart Duncan—fiddle, mandolin
*Paul Franklin—steel guitar
*Dick Gay—drums
*Carl Gorodetzky—concert master
*Lisa Hartman-Black—vocals, background vocals
*Wes Hightower—background vocals
*Carolyn Dawn Johnson—vocals
*Abraham Laboriel—bass guitar
*Nashville String Machine—orchestra
*Dean Parks—acoustic guitar
*Jeff Peterson—steel guitar
*John "4 Daddman" Robinson—drums
*Matt Rollings—grand piano
*Steve Wariner—electric guitar, background vocals
*Jake Willemain—bass guitar
*Martin Young—acoustic guitar

Production

*Clint Black—producer
*Zack Berry—production coordinator, assistant engineer
*Zeke Clark—assistant engineer
*Ricky Cobble—engineer, mixing
*Steve Lockhart—technical support
*Ray Rogers—engineering support
*Hank Williams—mastering

Chart positions

From Billboard.

Album

References

* [http://www.clintblack.com Black Tracks: "The Love Songs"] . ClintBlack.com. Retrieved on January 31, 2007.
* [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zen8b594fsqg "The Love Songs" Overview] . Allmusic. Retrieved on January 31, 2007.
* [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxfwxqtrldse~T2 "The Love Songs" Credits] . Allmusic. Retrieved on January 31, 2007.
* [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=2270&model.vnuAlbumId=732156 Artist Chart History (Albums)] . Billboard. Retrieved on September 16, 2007.