Meat and Candy

Prior to Meat and Candy, Old Dominion released a self-titled six track EP on October 7, 2014. Four of the EP's tracks, "Break Up With Him", "Nowhere Fast", "Beer Can in a Truck Bed", and Wrong Turns", were reissued as part of Meat and Candy.{{Cite web |date=2014-09-01 |title=Old Dominion Reveal Self-Titled Debut EP Details |url=https://tasteofcountry.com/old-dominion-ep-details/ |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=Taste of Country |language=en}}

Songwriter and producer Shane McAnally came up with the album's name, using the words "meat and candy" to suggest the "heftier songs" and "lighter fare" respectively. For the album cover, the band found photographer Michael Elins, to create an image of a female soda jerk before a table covered with meat products and candy. Lead singer Matthew Ramsey told Rolling Stone that the album cover "shows our personality without showing us, and it definitely shows that we're trying to do something different".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-old-dominions-wildly-irreverent-meat-and-candy-album-cover-20151030|title=Inside Old Dominion's Wildly Irreverent 'Meat and Candy' Album Cover|last=Hudak|first=Joseph|date=October 30, 2015|magazine=Rolling Stone|accessdate=November 6, 2015|archive-date=November 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101203631/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-old-dominions-wildly-irreverent-meat-and-candy-album-cover-20151030|url-status=live}}

Giving it an "A−", Tammy Ragusa of Nash Country Weekly wrote that "The combination of catchy rhymes, clever lyrics, Matt Ramsey's warm, strong voice, and the band's subtle but delicious harmonie will have you singing, clapping, and dancing along."{{cite journal|last=Ragusa|first=Tammy|date=November 9, 2015|title=Reviews: Old Dominion - 'Meat and Candy'|journal=Nash Country Weekly|volume=22|issue=45|page=23|issn=2379-9137}} Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying that "this is a sharper, savvier variation of Rascal Flatts: crossover pop as suited for an office as it is for a make-out session. That's an endorsement, not a dismissal: it's hard to sound this light and easy, but Old Dominion do it with aplomb and they're such talented craftsmen that Meat and Candy sounds better on the fifth play than it does on the first, and it sounds mighty fine that first time through."{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/meat-and-candy-mw0002886035|title=Meat and Candy review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|work=AllMusic|accessdate=26 November 2015|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208041458/http://www.allmusic.com/album/meat-and-candy-mw0002886035|url-status=live}}

The album debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and No. 5 on the Top Country Albums, selling 20,500 copies in its first week.{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2015/11/39350-country-albums-chart-report-november-17-2015 |title=Country Albums Chart Report: November 17, 2015 |first=Matt |last=Bjorke |date=November 17, 2015 |work=Roughstock |access-date=December 3, 2015 |archive-date=November 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121225431/http://roughstock.com/news/2015/11/39350-country-albums-chart-report-november-17-2015 |url-status=live }} Within the first month of its release, on November 28, 2016, it was certified Gold by the RIAA.{{Certification Cite Ref |region=United States |artist=Old Dominion |title=Meat and Candy|type=album }} It peaked at No. 3 on the Country Albums chart on its 17th week of release in March 2016 due to sale at both iTunes and Google Play stores, with 10,200 sold for the week.{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2016/03/39923-country-albums-chart-report-march-8-2016 |title=Country Albums Chart Report: March 8, 2016 |first=Matt |last=Bjorke |date=March 8, 2016 |work=Roughstock |access-date=March 17, 2016 |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312021015/http://roughstock.com/news/2016/03/39923-country-albums-chart-report-march-8-2016 |url-status=live }} The album has sold 192,900 copies in the US as of May 2017.{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2017/05/41804-top-10-country-albums-chart-may-9-2017 |title=Top 10 Country Albums Chart: May 9, 2017 |first=Matt |last=Bjorke |date=May 10, 2017 |work=Roughstock |access-date=May 28, 2017 |archive-date=July 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716042451/http://www.roughstock.com/news/2017/05/41804-top-10-country-albums-chart-may-9-2017 |url-status=live }}

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• Matthew Ramsey – clapping, electric guitar, keyboards, lead vocals, background vocals, gang vocals
• Trevor Rosen – clapping, acoustic guitar, hi-string guitar, keyboards, background vocals, gang vocals
• Whit Sellers – drums, percussion, programming
• Geoff Sprung – bass guitar, clapping, gang vocals
• Brad Tursi – clapping, electric guitar, hi-string guitar, percussion, programming, background vocals, gang vocals

• Dave Cohen – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer electric piano
• Mike Durham – electric guitar
• Tommy Garris – gang vocals
• Ryan Gore – percussion, programming
• Devin Malone – electric guitar
• Shane McAnally – gang vocals
• Ben Phillips – programming
• Matt Stanfield – keyboards
• Ilya Toshinsky – banjo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, resonator guitar, hi-string guitar, mandolin

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