Around the Bend | ||||
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Released | July 15, 2008 | |||
Studio | Blackbird Studios, The Compound, Starstruck Studios and The Insanery (Nashville, Tennessee)
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Genre | Country | |||
Length | 42:20 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. Nashville | |||
Producer | Kyle Lehning | |||
Randy Travis chronology | ||||
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Singles from Around the Bend | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | (72/100) [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
About.com | [2] |
Allmusic | [3] |
Billboard | (favorable) [4] |
The Boston Globe | (favorable) [5] |
Los Angeles Times | [6] |
The New York Times | (positive) [7] |
PopMatters | [8] |
Robert Christgau | [9] |
Slant Magazine | [10] |
Engine 145 | [11] |
Around the Bend is the nineteenth studio album released in 2008 by American country music artist Randy Travis. The album is Travis' first mainstream country music release since 1999's A Man Ain't Made of Stone as all his other studio albums in the 2000s were composed of Christian country music. [12] It sold 31,000 copies in its first week of release, the best opening week of Travis' career. [13] Three singles were released from the album: "Faith in You", "Dig Two Graves" and "Turn It Around", none of which charted.
Around the Bend was nominated for best country album at the 51st Grammy Awards, and the track "Dig Two Graves" was nominated as best country song. [14]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Around the Bend" |
| 3:36 |
2. | "You Didn't have a Good Time" |
| 3:56 |
3. | "Every Head Bowed" |
| 3:26 |
4. | "Love Is a Gamble" | Hugh Prestwood | 4:50 |
5. | "Faith in You" | 3:45 | |
6. | "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" | Bob Dylan | 4:16 |
7. | "Dig Two Graves" | 3:16 | |
8. | "Turn It Around" | 2:58 | |
9. | "From Your Knees" | Leslie Satcher | 4:00 |
10. | "Everything That I Own (Has Got a Dent)" | 3:30 | |
11. | "'Til I'm Dead and Gone" |
| 4:38 |
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
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The album won a Dove Award for Country Album of the Year at the 40th GMA Dove Awards. [19]
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