Name: While The Gettin' Is Good
Brand: Sugar Hill
SKU: 62799996
Price: 8.12 GBP
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While The Gettin' Is Good

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Album: While The Gettin' Is Good
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Don't Mind	More Info...
2)	Ain't Going Out Tonight	More Info...
3)	Flip-Flop	More Info...
4)	My Kinda Lady	More Info...
5)	Feet Wet	More Info...
6)	Taking the Edge Off	More Info...
7)	Dahlonega	More Info...
8)	Blow Me Away	More Info...
9)	PRIDE	More Info...
10)	The Baseball Song	More Info...
11)	Drinkin' on My Mind	More Info...
12)	Bend	More Info...

Album: While The Gettin' Is Good
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Don't Mind	More Info...
2)	Ain't Going Out Tonight	More Info...
3)	Flip-Flop	More Info...
4)	My Kinda Lady	More Info...
5)	Feet Wet	More Info...
6)	Taking the Edge Off	More Info...
7)	Dahlonega	More Info...
8)	Blow Me Away	More Info...
9)	PRIDE	More Info...
10)	The Baseball Song	More Info...
11)	Drinkin' on My Mind	More Info...
12)	Bend	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: Corey Smith (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Mike Hines (electric guitar, resonator guitar, mandolin); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar, Hawaiian steel guitar); John Willis (banjo, mandolin); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Sam Levine (clarinet); Lee Davis (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Kris Dale (upright bass); Antwane McMullin (drums, percussion); Eric Darken (percussion); John Wesley Ryles, Tania Hancheroff (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: John Kelton.
Recording information: Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN; Ronnie's Place, Nashville, TN; The Sound Station, Nashville, TN; Wedgewood Sound, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: Hodges Usry.
A longtime D.I.Y. country traditionalist, it only makes sense that Georgia-bred singer/songwriter Corey Smith would ink a deal with longtime D.I.Y.-supporting roots label Sugar Hill for his seventh studio long player, the immensely likeable While the Gettin' Is Good. Smith is an affable narrator with a strong voice and a good-natured hedonistic streak, and his songs tend to walk the line between folk, Southern rock, and Zac Brown Band-style country-pop. While the Gettin' Is Good works best when Smith finds the sweet spot between all three predilections, which he does on the sunny, vaudeville-laced opener "Don't Mind," the cinematic, roadtrip-ready "Dahlonega," and the galloping, hook-laden single "Ain't Going Out Tonight," the latter of which serves as the magnanimous flipside to the aptly sodden "Drinkin' on My Mind." The album gets a tad bogged down in midtempo place holders like "Flip Flop" and "Feet Wet," but Smith manages to treat the 12-track set's weaker moments with the same big-hearted enthusiasm that he brings to its more immediate offerings. ~ James Christopher Monger