The Love Songs (Clint Black album)
The Love Songs is a 2007 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.
Track listing
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
Chart positions
| Chart | Peak position |
| US Top Country Albums | 37 |
| US Top Independent Albums | 24 |