Let It Go (Tim McGraw album)

Let It Go is the ninth studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on March 27, 2007 by Curb Records. It was entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at number one with sales of 325,000 copies. The album has produced seven Top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including a number one; one of those seven songs was only included on later issues of the album. Of all McGraw's albums, this one has produced the most singles in his career.

Content
The first single from the album, "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (written by Big Kenny of Big & Rich), reached the top of the country charts in early 2007, giving McGraw his first number one hit since "Back When" in late 2004. Following it was "I Need You", a duet with his wife Faith Hill. This song peaked at #8. Shortly after the latter was released, McGraw charted with a live rendition of the song "If You're Reading This". He performed that song live at the Academy of Country Music awards in May 2007. A month after this song entered the charts, the album was re-issued with "If You're Reading This" added to the track listing. Afterwards, that song was later officially issued as the album's third single and reached #3 on the country charts.

"If You're Reading This" was followed in late 2007 by "Suspicions", a cover of Eddie Rabbitt's number one hit from 1979. However, McGraw's version became the second Top 40 hit of all his career to miss the Top 10 by peaking at #12 on Hot Country Songs. Following that song were "Kristofferson" and the title track in 2008; the former also failed to make the Top Ten by at #16 while the latter went to #2 in early December. The seventh single, "Nothin' to Die For", was released in January 2009. It entered the Hot Country Songs chart as an album cut at #57 in late December before its official release that month.

The song "Shotgun Rider" is not to be confused with another song with the same name which McGraw recorded on his 2014 album, Sundown Heaven Town. This song, written by Marv Green, Hillary Lindsey and Troy Verges, was released by McGraw as the latter album's third single in 2014, and became a number one song for him that year.

Personnel
Tim McGraw & the Dancehall Doctors
 * Tim McGraw – lead vocals
 * Jeff McMahon – acoustic piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizers, Hammond B3 organ
 * Denny Hemingson – electric guitar, steel guitar
 * Bob Minner – acoustic guitar
 * Darran Smith – electric guitar, additional acoustic guitar (13)
 * Deano Brown – fiddle, mandolin
 * John Marcus – bass
 * Billy Mason – drums
 * David Dunkley – percussion

Additional Musician
 * Byron Gallimore – synthesizers (8, 12), acoustic guitar (12)

Background Vocals
 * Last Dollar Singers (1)
 * Russell Terrell (1-5)
 * Greg Barnhill (2-5, 7-10, 12)
 * Wes Hightower (6)
 * Faith Hill (13), lead vocals (11)

Production
 * Byron Gallimore – producer, mixing
 * Tim McGraw – producer, mixing
 * Darran Smith – producer
 * Missi Gallimore – A&R direction
 * Julian King – tracking engineer
 * David Bryant – assistant engineer (1-12)
 * John Netti – assistant engineer (1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11)
 * Lowell Reynolds – assistant engineer (1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11)
 * David Robinson – assistant engineer (1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11)
 * Bryan Graban – assistant engineer (3, 4, 7, 8, 12)
 * Todd Schall – assistant engineer (3, 4, 7, 8, 12)
 * Jesse Chrisman – additional recording, Pro Tools engineer, mix assistant
 * Jason Gantt – additional recording, Pro Tools engineer
 * Jed Hackett – additional recording, Pro Tools engineer
 * Sara Lesher – additional recording, Pro Tools engineer, mix assistant
 * Erik Lutkins – additional recording, Pro Tools engineer, mix assistant
 * Heath Stimmel – additional recording
 * Adam Ayan – mastering
 * Ann Callis – production assistant
 * Glenn Sweitzer – art direction, package design
 * Tony Duran – cover photography, other photography
 * Danny Clinch – other photography

Studios
 * Recorded and overdubbed at Essential Sound Studios (Houston, Texas) and Ocean Way (Nashville, Tennessee)
 * Mixed and edited at Essential Sound Studios
 * Mastered at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)

Chart performance
Let It Go entered the U.S. Billboard 200 and the Top Country Albums charts at #1. This became McGraw's fourth #1 Billboard 200 and eleventh #1 Top Country Albums release.