It Goes Like This

It Goes Like This is the debut studio album by American country music singer Thomas Rhett. It was released on October 29, 2013, via Valory Music Group. The album's release was announced on August 22.

Content
It includes the singles "It Goes Like This", "Get Me Some of That", and "Make Me Wanna". It also includes the previously released singles "Something to Do with My Hands" and "Beer with Jesus" from Rhett's prior self-titled EP release.

Jay Joyce produced six of the album's tracks, of which five previously appeared on Rhett's self-titled extended play. Michael Knox and Luke Laird produce three tracks each.

Critical reception
The album received positive reviews from critics. Steve Leggett of Allmusic rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying that "It's a solidly professional outing, featuring all three of his singles and other tracks of similar construction, and it's full of energy, good humor, and the kind of backroad good-old-boy wisdom that everybody seems to love these days, even if it feeds more off nostalgia than reality." Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock called it "a very good, musically diverse debut album, an album which should find some sort of an audience."

Personnel

 * Thomas Rhett – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums
 * Tony Harrell – acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ
 * Matt Stanfield – keyboards
 * Jody Stevens – programming
 * Jay Joyce – Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 organ, synth strings, programming, baritone guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
 * J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
 * Jedd Hughes – electric guitar
 * Rob McNelley – electric guitar, dobro
 * Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
 * Joel Key – acoustic guitar, banjo
 * Luke Laird – acoustic guitar
 * John Osborne – acoustic guitar, banjo
 * Danny Rader – acoustic guitar
 * Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar
 * Ed Williams – acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
 * Steve Fishell – pedal steel guitar
 * Mike Johnson – steel guitar
 * Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
 * Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar, Jew's harp
 * Lee Hendricks – bass guitar
 * Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
 * Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion
 * Fred Eltringham – drums, percussion
 * Greg Morrow – drums, drum programming
 * Craig Wright – drums, percussion
 * Rich Redmond – percussion
 * Brett Warren – harmonica, backing vocals
 * Rhett Akins – backing vocals
 * Danielle Bradbery – backing vocals
 * Whitney Cheshier – backing vocals
 * Mickey Jack Cones – backing vocals
 * Virginia Davis – backing vocals
 * Drew Gaw – backing vocals
 * Kelsea Granda – backing vocals
 * Jace Hall – backing vocals
 * Tom Luteran – backing vocals
 * Gloria Martinez – backing vocals
 * Mark Martinez – backing vocals
 * Alex Quattlebaum – backing vocals
 * Nichole Rodriguez – backing vocals
 * Jess Rosen – backing vocals
 * Julie Stuckey – backing vocals
 * Russell Terrell – backing vocals
 * Samantha Thornton – backing vocals
 * Kelly Tillotson – backing vocals
 * Brad Warren – backing vocals

Chart performance
The album debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the Top Current Albums chart with 36,000 copies sold in the U.S. on its first week of release. The album has sold 271,000 copies in the US as of September 2015.