"You'll Always Be My Baby" Released: August 16, 2021[4][5]
Where Have You Gone is the twenty-first studio album by American country artist
Alan Jackson, released on May 14, 2021, through ACR/
EMI.
Content
Where Have You Gone is Jackson's first new studio album since Angels and Alcohol in 2015. Jackson wrote 15 of the songs on the album. It was produced by
Keith Stegall,[6] who has produced all but one of his studio albums. Many of the studio musicians are ones who have played on his previous albums, including guitarist
J. T. Corenflos, fiddler
Stuart Duncan, drummer
Eddie Bayers, and steel guitarist
Paul Franklin. Three songs were released in advance: "The Older I Get" was a single in 2017 prior to the album's release. Also released were the title track, in which Jackson comments on the contemporary state of the country music genre, and "You'll Always Be My Baby", a song that he wrote with the intention of having listeners play at weddings. Also included on the album is a cover of the
Lefty Frizzell-
Sanger D. Shafer composition "
That's the Way Love Goes", which has been a hit single for both
Johnny Rodriguez and
Merle Haggard.[7]
Critical reception
Rating it 4 out of 5 stars,
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
AllMusic wrote that "Jackson knows himself so well as a singer and songwriter that he doesn't shy from his strengths, he writes songs to showcase his smooth, supple voice and love of old-fashioned country. The simplicity of his goals means Where Have You Gone might seem a bit modest even at its oversized length, but that's also its charm."[8]
Track listing
All songs written by Alan Jackson, except where noted.
^Where Have You Gone (CD booklet). Alan Jackson. ACR/EMI Records Nashville. 2021. 00602435716084.{{
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