| Thirty Miles West | ||||
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| Released | June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05) | |||
| Recorded | 2011–2012 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 52:21 | |||
| Label | Alan's Country Records EMI Nashville | |||
| Producer | Keith Stegall[1] | |||
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Thirty Miles West is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson.[2] It was released on June 5, 2012, and is Jackson's first album on his own Alan's Country Records in a joint venture with EMI Nashville.[3] The album includes the singles "Long Way to Go," "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" and "You Go Your Way."[4]
The album's title refers to a song about a stretch of the Dixie Highway near Jackson's hometown of Newnan, Georgia.[5] The song, "Dixie Highway," is a duet with Zac Brown.[6]
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| Source | Rating |
| About.com |    [7] |
| Allmusic | [8] |
| Country Weekly | (positive)[9] |
| Los Angeles Times | [10] |
| The New York Times | (average)[11] |
| The Washington Post | (average)[12] |
Upon its release, Thirty Miles West received generally positive reviews from most music critics.[13]AtMetacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 4 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[13]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Gonna Come Back as a Country Song" | Terry McBride, Chris Stapleton | 3:02 |
| 2. | "You Go Your Way" | Troy Jones, David Lee, Tony Lane | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Everything but the Wings" | Alan Jackson | 4:44 |
| 4. | "Talk Is Cheap" | Guy Clark, Stapleton, Morgane Hayes | 3:48 |
| 5. | "So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore" | Jackson | 3:42 |
| 6. | "Look Her in the Eye and Lie" | Jay Knowles, Adam Wright | 3:48 |
| 7. | "Dixie Highway" (with Zac Brown) | Jackson | 7:24 |
| 8. | "She Don't Get High" | Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde, Kylie Sackley | 4:12 |
| 9. | "Her Life's a Song" | Jackson | 4:25 |
| 10. | "Nothin' Fancy" | Knowles, Wright | 3:12 |
| 11. | "Long Way to Go" | Jackson | 3:39 |
| 12. | "Life Keeps Bringin' Me Down" | Al Anderson, Shawn Camp | 3:04 |
| 13. | "When I Saw You Leaving (For Nisey)" | Jackson | 4:04 |
| Total length: | 52:21 | ||
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