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Family is the twelfth studio album by American country recording artist LeAnn Rimes, released October 9, 2007, on Curb Records in the United States. It was produced primarily by musician and record producer Dann Huff, with additional production by Tony Brown and guest vocalist Reba McEntire.

The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 74,200 copies in its first week. Upon its release, Family received positive reviews from most music critics, who complimented Rimes' performance and songwriting. It earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for the album's lead single "Nothin' Better to Do".

Singles

The first single, "Nothin' Better to Do", was released to radio on May 29, 2007 which she was nominated for a Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy for the 50th Grammy Awards, followed by "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine" Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day and "What I Cannot Change" Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day, which was nominated for a Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy for the 51st Grammy Awards and went to number one on the Billboard Dance chart.[1]

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 74,200 copies in the United States.[2] It spent a total of 20 weeks in Billboard 200, and was also her lowest-selling studio album in the US.

In the United Kingdom, Family debuted at number 31 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Rimes's first album to miss the top 20 of the chart (though not all of her albums were released in the UK).

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Blender[4]
The Boston Globe(favorable)[5]
Entertainment Weekly(B)[6]
The Guardian[7]
Hartford Courant(favorable)[8]
The New York Times(favorable)[9]
Rolling Stone[10]
Slant Magazine[11]
Uncut[12]

Family received positive reviews from most music critics.[13] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[13] Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it four out of five stars and called it "surprisingly far-ranging underneath its soft country-pop veneer [...] a canny blend of the commercial and the confessional".[3] Blender's Jane Dark complimented its "lighthearted genre-hopping", writing that it "suggests nothing so much as a Broadway smash about a restless country star, borrowing from many styles, beholden to none".[4] Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe praised Rimes' songwriting and dubbed Family "the best, most cogent album of her career".[5] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times complimented her "gentle belting-out" and commented that "the music echoes the fearlessness in the lyrics".[9] Slant Magazine's Jonathan Keefe called Rimes "a distinctive interpretive singer" and viewed that her songwriting gives the album "the kind of focus and thematic coherence that most Nashville acts can't be bothered with".[11] Keefe cited Family as "among the strongest mainstream country albums of the past several years".[11]

However, Q gave the album two out of five stars and stated "There's little spark, despite her admirable willingness to take chances".[13] Entertainment Weekly's Alanna Nash gave it a B rating and commented that "Rimes displays new maturity in songwriting [...] though too often she lapses into posturing power pop".[6] Adam Sweeting of Uncut criticized its music, writing that the songs "sound like an update of the kind of AOR racket Pat Benatar and Heart were making in the '80s".[12] Dave Simpson of The Guardian noted "A slightly too-smooth production and typically overblown Bon Jovi collaboration", but called it "an album full of swaggering rhythm'n'booze and emotional confessionals that explore a dysfunctional childhood".[7] Despite finding the song "uneven", Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield gave the album three-and-a-half out of five stars and cited "Nothin' Better to Do", "Family", and "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" as highlights.[10] Thomas Kintner of The Hartford Courant called Family "a carefully manicured, but still lively assortment that highlights her substantial vocal strengths", and praised Rimes' singing, stating "She is prone to embracing tunes so disposable that they should be beneath her notice, but the melodic richness she showers on even the most lackluster lyrics makes for interesting listening".[8]

Track listing

  1. "Family" (LeAnn Rimes, Dean Sheremet, Blair Daly) - 3:55 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  2. "Nothin' Better to Do" (Rimes, Sheremet, Darrell Brown)
  3. "Fight" (Rimes, Brown, Daly) - 3:27 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  4. "Good Friend and a Glass of Wine" (Rimes, Brown, Daly) - 3:34 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  5. "Something I Can Feel" (Rimes, Brown, Daly) - 3:43 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  6. "I Want You with Me" (Rimes, Sheremet, Daly) - 3:33 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  7. "Doesn't Everybody" (Rimes, Sheremet, Brown) - 3:53
  8. "Nothing Wrong" (Rimes, Marc Broussard, Daly) - 4:22
  9. "Pretty Things" (Rimes, Sheremet, Brown) - 3:45 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  10. "Upper Hand" (Rimes, Brown, Troy Verges) - 3:51 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  11. "One Day Too Long" (Rimes, Sheremet, Brown) - 3:38 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  12. "What I Cannot Change" (Rimes, Brown) - 5:14 Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day
  13. "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Brett James) - 4:48 - Bonus Track
  14. "When You Love Someone Like That" (Ed Hill, Karyn Rochelle) - Bonus Track Best Buddy's annual Talent Show in the CGS Community Room on April 22, 2012 Earth Day

Personnel

Credits for Family adapted from Allmusic.[14]

Musicians

Production

Charts

Release history

Country Date
United States October 9, 2007
Australia October 15, 2007

References

  1. ^ Kevin J. Coyne,"2009 Grammy Nominees" Countryuniverse.net, December 3, 2008
  2. ^ Harris, Chris (October 17, 2007). Kid Rock's Jesus Overpowers Bruce Springsteen's Magic On Billboard Chart. MTV News. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (October 2007). Review: Family - LeAnn Rimes. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  4. ^ a b Dark, Jane (October 9, 2007). Family - Blender. Blender. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  5. ^ a b Rodman, Sarah (October 9, 2007). 'Blue' no more, Rimes grows up. The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  6. ^ a b Nash, Alanna (October 12, 2007). Family | Music | EW.com. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  7. ^ a b Simpson, Dave (October 5, 2007). CD: LeeAnn Rimes, Family | Music. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  8. ^ a b Kintner, Thomas (October 18, 2007). New On Disc - Page 2. Hartford Courant. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  9. ^ a b Sanneh, Kelefa (October 8, 2007). Critics’ Choice – New CDs. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  10. ^ a b Sheffield, Rob (October 18, 2007). Family : LeAnn Rimes : Review. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  11. ^ a b c Keefe, Jonathan (October 17, 2007). LeAnn Rimes: Family | Music Review. Slant Magazine. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  12. ^ a b Sweeting, Adam (November 2007). "Review: Family". Uncut: 116.
  13. ^ a b c Family Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  14. ^ Credits: Family - LeAnn Rimes. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.
  15. ^ http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_country.asp?chart=1F20
  16. ^ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/leann-rimes/chart-history/155119?f=400&g=Albums
  17. ^ http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=LeAnn+Rimes&titel=Family&cat=a
  18. ^ http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=39975
  19. ^ a b c [1]. billboard.com. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
  20. ^ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2007/country-albums
  21. ^ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/yearendcharts/2008/country-albums
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