Down to My Last Bad Habit
Down to My Last Bad Habit is the fourteenth studio album by American country music singer Vince Gill. The album was released on February 12, 2016, by MCA Nashville.
Critical reception
Down to My Last Bad Habit received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80 based on 5 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, with 17,000 copies sold in its first week. It is his 15th top 10 entry on the chart. It sold a further 7,500 copies in its second week. The album has sold 81,600 copies in the US as of March 2017.Personnel
- Vince Gill – vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals, mandolin
- Pete Wasner – Wurlitzer electric piano
- Reese Wynans – Hammond B3 organ
- Tony Harrell – Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 organ, accordion, acoustic piano
- Charlie Judge – keyboards, synthesizers, Hammond B3 organ
- Tom Bukovac – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Dean Parks – electric guitar
- Dann Huff – electric guitar
- Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar
- Paul Franklin –steel guitar
- Willie Weeks – bass
- Michael Rhodes – bass
- Steve Jordan – drums, percussion
- Fred Eltringham – drums, percussion
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica
- Chris Botti – trumpet
- Corrina Gill – backing vocals, harmony vocals
- Jenny Van Valkenburg – harmony vocals
- Ellie Holcomb – harmony vocals
- Bekka Bramlett – harmony vocals
- Kim Keyes – harmony vocals
- Little Big Town – backing vocals
- Cam – backing vocals
- Charlie Worsham – harmony vocals
- Alison Krauss – harmony vocals
Production
- Vince Gill – producer
- Justin Niebank – producer, recording, mixing
- Drew Bollman – recording
- Matt Rausch – recording
- Brian David Willis – digital editing
- Andrew Mendelson – mastering at Georgetown Masters
- Karen Naff – art direction
- Craig Allen – design
- Jim White – photography
- The Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management