All I Want (Tim McGraw album)

All I Want
Studio album by Tim McGraw
Released September 19, 1995
Recorded 1995
Genre Country
Length 42:12
Label Curb
Producer
Tim McGraw chronology
Not a Moment Too Soon
(1994)
All I Want
(1995)
Everywhere (1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyA[2]

All I Want is the third album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on September 19, 1995. The album sold over two million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. It has been certified as 3× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. The album's singles were, in order of release: "I Like It, I Love It", "Can't Be Really Gone", "All I Want Is a Life", "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It". Respectively, these reached #1, #2, #5, #1, and #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "I Like It, I Love It" was also a #25 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. This was Tim's last album to have a neotraditional country sound before developing a more crossover-friendly country-pop sound.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "All I Want Is a Life"  Stan Munsey, Tony Mullins, Don Pfrimmer 3:33
2. "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart"  Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro 3:02
3. "Can't Be Really Gone"  Gary Burr 3:20
4. "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"  Jerry Laseter, Kerry Kurt Phillips 3:55
5. "I Didn't Ask and She Didn't Say"  Van Stephenson, Reese Wilson, Tony Martin 4:02
6. "Renegade"  Jeff Stevens, Steve Bogard 2:59
7. "I Like It, I Love It"  Mark Hall, Jeb Stuart Anderson, Steve Dukes 3:24
8. "The Great Divide"  Brett Beavers 3:15
9. "You Got the Wrong Man"  Joe Barnhill, Wayne Perry 3:18
10. "Don't Mention Memphis"  Bill LaBounty, Rand Bishop 3:00
11. "When She Wakes Up (And Finds Me Gone)"  Tommy Barnes 5:13
12. "That's Just Me"  Deryl Dodd 3:13

Charts and certifications

Album

Chart (1995) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 4[3]
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1[3]
Canadian RPM Top Albums 58
Canadian RPM Country Albums 1

Certifications

Country Certifier Certification
United States RIAA 3x Platinum[4]

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
[5]
US CAN Country
1995 "I Like It, I Love It" 1 25 1
"Can't Be Really Gone" 2 87 4
"All I Want Is a Life" 5 2
1996 "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" 1 5
"Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It" 4 1
Preceded by
The Woman in Me by Shania Twain
Starting Over by Reba McEntire
Top Country Albums number-one album
October 7–20, 1995
November 4–10, 1995
Succeeded by
Starting Over by Reba McEntire
The Greatest Hits Collection by Alan Jackson
Preceded by
The Woman in Me by Shania Twain
RPM Country Albums number-one album
October 2–15, 1995
Succeeded by
The Woman in Me by Shania Twain

Personnel

  • Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
  • Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar
  • Missi Callis - assistant producer, production assistant
  • Ricky Cobble - assistant engineer
  • Steve Dorff - string arrangements, conductor
  • Glen Duncan - fiddle, mandolin
  • Byron Gallimore - producer
  • Sonny Garrish - Dobro, steel guitar
  • Carl Gorodetzky - contractor
  • Mark Hagen - assistant engineer, mixing assistant
  • Dann Huff - electric guitar
  • Julian King - engineer
  • Chris Lord-Alge - mixing

  • Tim McGraw - lead vocals
  • Terry McMillan - percussion
  • Abbe Nameche - production assistant
  • Nashville String Machine - strings
  • Steve Nathan - keyboards, Hammond organ
  • Jerry Puckett - engineer
  • Doug Rich - production assistant
  • Matt Rollings - keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
  • Brent Rowan - electric guitar
  • Doug Sax - mastering
  • James Stroud - producer
  • Craig White — assistant engineer
  • Lonnie Wilson - drums
  • Glenn Worf - bass guitar
  • Curtis Wright - background vocals
  • Curtis Young - background vocals

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Entertainment Weekly review
  3. 1 2 All I Want - Tim McGraw, Billboard, archived from the original on 18 October 2010, retrieved 2010-10-18
  4. "RIAA – Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  5. Tim McGraw Album & Song Chart History, Billboard, archived from the original on 18 October 2010, retrieved 2010-10-18
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