XII (album)

This article is about the Neal McCoy album. For the number, see 12 (number).

XII

Studio album by Neal McCoy

Released

March 6, 2012

Blaster

Neal McCoy chronology

That's Life
(2005)

XII
(2012)

Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride
(2013)

Singles from XII

"A-OK"
Released: October 17, 2011
"Shotgun Rider"
Released: April 23, 2012

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Roughstock	^[2]
Taste of Country	^[3]

XII is an album by American country music singer Neal McCoy. Released on March 6, 2012 via Blaster Records, it is his first album of new material since That's Life in 2005. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert co-produced the album with Brent Rowan. The album includes the single "A-OK".^[4]

Critical reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "finds him doing what he does best, performing nimble mainstream country music tunes as good as anything else on the marketplace."^[2] Rating it four stars out of five, Taste of Country writer Billy Dukes favorably compared McCoy's vocals to Shelton's.^[3] J. Poet of Allmusic rated it three stars out of five, saying that the album had "one great tune, two good ones, and a whole lot that get by on McCoy's powerful vocals".^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A-OK"	Brett Eldredge Luke Laird Barry Dean	2:56
2.	"Real Good Feel Good"	Dallas Davidson Jimmy Ritchey Sam Hunt	4:05
3.	"Judge a Man by the Woman"	Dean Don Poythress	3:58
4.	"Mouth"	Jamey Johnson David Tolliver	3:15
5.	"Shotgun Rider"	Keith Anderson Rhett Akins Dallas Davidson Ben Hayslip	3:00
6.	"That's You"	Clint Daniels Neal McCoy Jeff Hyde	3:24
7.	"Crazy Women"	Rivers Rutherford George Teren	3:34
8.	"Lucky Enough"	McCoy Hyde Ryan Tyndell	3:33
9.	"Every Fire"	Cathy Majeski John Scott Sherrill	3:39
10.	"That's Just How She Gets"	Shane Minor Bart Butler Dave Turnbull	2:56
11.	"Borderline Crazy"	Greg Barnhill Kris Bergsnes Jeremy Stover	3:16
12.	"Van Gogh"	Tom Douglas Allen Shamblin	3:56
Total length:			41:42

Personnel

Perry Coleman – background vocals
Eric Darken – percussion
Scott Ducaj – trumpet
Dan Dugmore – dobro, electric guitar, steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Lester Estelle Jr. – drums
David Grissom – electric guitar
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
Wes Hightower – background vocals
John Barlow Jarvis – piano
Kim Keyes – background vocals
Miranda Lambert – background vocals
Tim Lauer – organ, synthesizer, Wurlitzer
Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
Neal McCoy – lead vocals, whistle
Greg Morrow – drums, percussion
Wendy Moten – background vocals
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
Mike Rojas – piano
Brent Rowan – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, sitar
Blake Shelton – acoustic guitar, background vocals
Bryan Sutton – banjo, acoustic guitar, reasonator guitar
Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2012)	Peak position
US Billboard Top Country Albums	58

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
Year	Single	US Country
2011	"A-OK"	52
2012	"Shotgun Rider"	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References

1 2 Poet, J. "XII review". Allmusic. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
1 2 Bjorke, Matt (March 6, 2012). "XII review". Roughstock. Archived from the original on March 11, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
1 2 Dukes, Billy (March 6, 2012). "XII review". Taste of Country. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
↑ "Neal McCoy Leads Independent Releases". CMT. March 6, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.

Neal McCoy

Studio albums	At This Moment Where Forever Begins No Doubt About It You Gotta Love That Neal McCoy Be Good at It The Life of the Party 24-7-365 The Luckiest Man in the World That's Life XII Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits The Very Best of Neal McCoy

Notable singles	"This Time I've Hurt Her More (Than She Loves Me)" "Where Forever Begins" "Now I Pray for Rain" "No Doubt About It" "Wink" "The City Put the Country Back in Me" "For a Change" "They're Playin' Our Song" "If I Was a Drinkin' Man" "You Gotta Love That" "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" "Going, Going, Gone" "That Woman of Mine" "The Shake" "If You Can't Be Good (Be Good at It)" "Love Happens Like That" "I Was" "Forever Works for Me (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)" "Every Man for Himself" "Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On"

Related articles	Discography Atlantic Records Giant Records

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