Can't Say I Ain't Country is the fourth studio album by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line. It was released on February 15, 2019, through the Big Machine Label Group. It includes the singles "Simple" and "Talk You Out of It", as well as the tracks "Colorado" and "Sittin' Pretty". It was supported by a tour of the same name from May 2019.
Background and composition Tyler Hubbard told Entertainment Tonight: "We've been working on that album for over a year now, so BK and I are definitely ready." On the sound of the album, he remarked: "A lot of the music is just kind of a throwback -- an FGL take on kind of what we grew up on, '90s country. It's a well-rounded album. We got stuff we wrote and recorded just for the live show. We got some collaborations with Jason Derulo, Jason Aldean. So, there's a little bit of everything."
Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 58 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Dave Simpson of The Guardian rated the album two out of five stars, heavily panning the album's cliched bro-country lyrics. Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone gave the album two and a half out of five stars, describing it as "a defensive, winking response from the act that’s come to serve as shorthand for everything wrong with modern country." and adding "It’s full of attempts to shore up their credibility, along with jabs at detractors (see the title track and the Nineties-rap-referencing skits)."
Commercial performance Can't Say I Ain't Country debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200, giving the duo their fourth US top-five album. It entered with 50,000 album-equivalent units, including 29,000 pure album sales. The album has sold 107,000 copies in the United States as of March 2020, and 644,000 units consumed in total in the United States.
Track listing
Personnel Adapted from AllMusic.
Florida Georgia Line Tyler Hubbard – vocals Brian Kelley – vocals
Additional personnel Jason Aldean – duet vocals on "Can't Hide Red" Dave Cohen – keyboards, piano, programming Jason Derulo – duet vocals on "Women" Paul Franklin – steel guitar Jesse Frasure – programming David Garcia – programming Hardy – electric guitar, programming, duet vocals on "Y'all Boys" Mark Holman – programming Byron House – upright bass Rob Ickes – dobro Brother Jervel – featured vocals on "Tyler Got Him a Tesla", "All Gas No Brakes", "Sack'a Puppies", and "Catfish Nuggets" Rob McNelley – electric guitar Joey Moi – bass guitar, electric guitar, programming Russ Pahl – steel guitar Jerry Roe – drums, percussion Justin Schipper – steel guitar Jordan Schmidt – programming Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, mandolin Ilya Toshinsky – banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin Alysa Vanderheym – programming Derek Wells – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Nir Z. – drums, percussion
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2019) Peakposition
Year-end charts Chart (2019) Position Australian Top Country Albums (ARIA) 6 US Billboard 200 111 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 11 Chart (2020) Position Australian Top Country Albums (ARIA) 32 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 43
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