The Love Songs (Clint Black album)

The Love Songs is a 2007 (see 2007 in music) album by country singer Clint Black. It consists of newly recorded versions of many of his love songs along with a cover version of Jim Croce's "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".

According to Black, many of the songs remain true to the original version while a few get a slight update. "I wanted to do a record that's not just a reissue of hits", Black said. "Sometimes when I go back and revisit my older recordings, I find little things that, in hindsight, I feel I could improve on just a bit—some new twist that might make it just a little bit better. It might be a slight change in the arrangement, or the way vocals are layered. And there were also times when I listened to a particular recording and felt there really wasn't a change that would make it better."

The album cover was designed by Peter Max and depicts Black with wife Lisa Hartman Black.

Personnel
Band


 * Bryan Austin — acoustic guitar, background vocals
 * Clint Black — acoustic guitar, harmonica, percussion, electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals, bass harmonica
 * Dane Bryant — piano, keyboards, background vocals
 * Lenny Castro — percussion
 * Perry Coleman — background vocals
 * Steve Dorff — conductor, orchestral arrangements
 * Stuart Duncan — fiddle, mandolin
 * Paul Franklin — steel guitar
 * Dick Gay — drums
 * Carl Gorodetzky — concert master
 * Lisa Hartman Black — duet vocals on "When I Said I Do" and "Easy for Me to Say"
 * Wes Hightower — background vocals
 * Carolyn Dawn Johnson — duet vocals on "Our Kind of Love"
 * Abraham Laboriel — bass guitar
 * Nashville String Machine — orchestra
 * Hayden Nicholas — electric guitar
 * Dean Parks — acoustic guitar
 * Jeff Peterson — steel guitar
 * John "J.R." Robinson — drums
 * Matt Rollings — grand piano
 * Steve Wariner — electric guitar, background vocals
 * Jake Willemain — bass guitar
 * Martin Young — acoustic guitar

Production
 * Zack Berry — production coordinator, assistant engineer
 * Clint Black — producer
 * Zeke Clark — assistant engineer
 * Ricky Cobble — engineer, mixing
 * Steve Lockhart — technical support
 * Ray Rogers — engineering support
 * Hank Williams — mastering