Buy Me a Boat
Buy Me a Boat is the debut studio album by American country music singer Chris Janson. The album was released on October 30, 2015. It features the singles "Buy Me a Boat", "Power of Positive Drinkin'" and "Holdin' Her".
Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that "if accompanying album isn't quite up to its standards, it's nevertheless the work of an accomplished writer who knows how to sculpt a song for a wide audience. If Buy Me a Boat can be faulted, it's because its diversity often plays like a demo tape, with Janson crafting songs for any possible contemporary country audience."Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, and No. 18 on the Billboard 200, selling 18,536 copies in its first week. The album has sold 117,100 copies in the US as of March 2017.Personnel
Adapted from Buy Me a Boat liner notes.Musicians
- Brent Anderson - acoustic guitar, background vocals, synthesizer, bouzouki
- David Dorn - Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, synthesizer, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
- Shannon Forrest - drums, programming
- Byron Gallimore - acoustic guitar
- Chris Janson - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
- Troy Lancaster - electric guitar
- Tony Lucido - bass guitar
- Fred Newell - steel guitar
- Justin Ostrander - electric guitar
- Russ Pahl - Jew's harp, steel guitar
- Ben Phillips - drums, programming
- Jeff Roach - synthesizer
- Justin Schipper - steel guitar
- Will Weatherly - programming
- Derek Wells - electric guitar
Technical
;Tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 11- Brent Anderson - producer
- Jeff Balding - recording
- Matt Coles - assistant
- Chris DuBois - producer
- Chris Janson - producer
- Scott Johnson - production assistant
- Ben Phillips - recording, digital editing, mixing
- Will Weatherly - digital editing
- Stephen Allbritten - assistant
- Jake Burns - assistant
- Byron Gallimore - producer, mixing
- Julian King - recording
- Erik Lutkins - additional recording
- Ernesto Olivera - assistant
- Adam Ayan - mastering
- Eric Brown - photography
- Katherine Petillo - art direction, design
- Shane Tarleton - creative director