Real Things (Joe Nichols album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Real Things

| type = studio

| cover = Nicholsreal.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|2007|08|21}}

| recorded = 2007 at The Sound Kitchen, Curb Studios and Studio 44, Nashville, TN{{cite AV media notes |title=Real Things |others=Joe Nichols |year=2007 |type=CD |publisher=Universal South |id=B0008888}}

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Country

| length = 47:24

| label = Universal South Records

| producer = Brent Rowan
Mark Wright

| prev_title = III

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Old Things New

| next_year = 2009

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Real Things

| type = studio

| single1 = Another Side of You

| single1date = May 7, 2007

| single2 = It Ain't No Crime

| single2date = December 13, 2007

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1112808|pure_url=yes}}|title=Real Things review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|work=Allmusic|accessdate=July 17, 2011}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = A−{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20053118,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527230754/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20053118,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 27, 2008|title=Real Things review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|accessdate=July 17, 2011|date=August 24, 2007}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Real Things is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Joe Nichols. It was released on August 21, 2007 by Universal South Records. It produced two singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts with "Another Side of You", which peaked at number 17, and "It Ain't No Crime", which reached number 16.

This album also contains four songs that were previously recorded by other artists. "She's All Lady" was previously recorded by Jamey Johnson on his 2006 debut The Dollar, and "Ain't Nobody Gonna Take That from Me" was previously recorded by Collin Raye on his 2001 album Can't Back Down. "Let's Get Drunk and Fight" was recorded by Aaron Lines on his 2007 album Moments That Matter, from which it was released as a single. Finally, "If I Could Only Fly" is a cover of a Blaze Foley song. "Who Are You When I'm Not Looking" was recorded by Blake Shelton on his album All About Tonight and was released as the second single from that album.

Brent Rowan produced the entire album, working with Mark Wright on all tracks except "Ain't Nobody Gonna Take That from Me" and "If I Could Only Fly".

Track listing

{{tracklist

| title1 = Real Things

| writer1 = {{hlist|John Brown|Billy Dean}}

| length1 = 3:08

| title2 = Another Side of You

| writer2 = {{hlist|Carson Chamberlain|Jamey Johnson}}

| length2 = 3:00

| title3 = Who Are You When I'm Not Looking

| writer3 = {{hlist|Earl Bud Lee|John Wiggins}}

| length3 = 3:06

| title4 = Comin' Back in a Cadillac

| writer4 = {{hlist|Ben Daniels|Clint Daniels|Lynn Hutton|Rob McNelley}}

| length4 = 3:40

| title5 = My Whiskey Years

| writer5 = {{hlist|Tom Hambridge|Jeffrey Steele}}

| length5 = 3:59

| title6 = It Ain't No Crime

| writer6 = {{hlist|Tony Martin|Mark Nesler|Tom Shapiro}}

| length6 = 3:37

| title7 = All Good Things

| writer7 = {{hlist|Dean Dillon|Scotty Emerick}}

| length7 = 3:05

| title8 = Let's Get Drunk and Fight

| writer8 = {{hlist|Chris Lindsey|Aaron Lines|Aimee Mayo|Troy Verges}}

| length8 = 4:03

| title9 = Ain't Nobody Gonna Take That from Me

| writer9 = {{hlist|Rivers Rutherford|Sam Tate|Annie Tate}}

| length9 = 3:57

| title10 = She's All Lady

| writer10 = {{hlist|Dallas Davidson|Johnson}}

| length10 = 3:44

| title11 = The Difference Is Night and Day

| writer11 = {{hlist|Joe Nichols|Walt Aldridge|John Paul White}}

| length11 = 3:12

| title12 = All I Need Is a Heart

| writer12 = {{hlist|Emerick|John Scott Sherrill}}

| length12 = 3:45

| title13 = If I Could Only Fly

| note13 = with Lee Ann Womack

| writer13 = Blaze Foley

| length13 = 4:59

| total_length = 47:15

}}

Personnel

Amalgamated from liner notes

Perry Coleman - background vocals on "Comin' Back in a Cadillac" and "It Ain't No Crime"
J. T. Corenflos - electric guitar
Eric Darken - percussion
Shannon Forrest - drums
Paul Franklin - steel guitar, Dobro
Morgane Hayes - background vocals on track 6 and additional background vocals on tracks 5, 8, 11 & 13
Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
Wes Hightower - background vocals
Jim Hoke - horns on "Comin' Back in a Cadillac"
John Hughey - steel guitar on track 13
David Hungate - bass guitar, upright bass
Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar, reso-electric guitar
Gordon Mote - piano, Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, B3 organ
Joe Nichols - lead vocals, background vocals on tracks 11 & 12
Brent Rowan - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Tic tac bass, Wurlitzer, horn arrangement, slide guitar, mellotron, sitar, 6 string bass, 12 string acoustic guitar, piano, harmonium
Bryan Sutton - acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandocello
Lee Ann Womack - duet vocals on track 13
Craig Young - bass guitar on track 9 & 13

Universal Records South Family Singers sing on "Let's Get Drunk and Fight"

Chart performance

=Album=

class="wikitable"

! Chart (2007)

! Peak
position

U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums

| align="center"| 2

U.S. Billboard 200

| align="center"| 23

=Singles=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
rowspan="2"\| Year ! rowspan="2"\| Single ! colspan="2"\| Peak chart positions
style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"\| US Country ! width="45"\| US
rowspan="2"\| 2007 \| align="left"\| "Another Side of You" \| 17 \| 99
align="left"\| "It Ain't No Crime" \| 16 \| 105

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peak chart
positions

style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="45"| US Country

! width="45"| US

rowspan="2"| 2007

| align="left"| "Another Side of You"

| 17

| 99

align="left"| "It Ain't No Crime"