Started with a Song
{{Infobox album
| name = Started with a Song
| type = studio
| artist = Brett Kissel
| cover = StartedwithaSong.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2013|10|1}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 38:20
| label = Warner Music Canada
| producer = Ted Hewitt
Brett Kissel
Bart McKay
Ben Phillips
| prev_title = My Roots Run Deep
| prev_year = 2008
| next_title = Pick Me Up
| next_year = 2015
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Started with a Song
| type = studio
| single1 = Started with a Song
| single1date = June 17, 2013
| single2 = Raise Your Glass
| single2date = October 7, 2013
| single3 = 3-2-1
| single3date = February 2014
| single4 = Tough People Do
| single4date = July 2014
| single5 = Something You Just Don't Forget
| single5date = November 2014
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Edmonton Journal
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|last=Ash|first=Amanda|title=Album review: Brett Kissel, Started With A Song|url=http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/2013/10/01/album-review-brett-kissel-started-with-a-song/|accessdate=October 1, 2013|newspaper=Edmonton Journal|date=October 1, 2013}}
}}
Started with a Song is the major label debut album by Canadian country music artist Brett Kissel. It was released on October 1, 2013, via Warner Music Canada.{{cite news|last=Patton|first=Kristi|title=Kissel's rise to stardom no fluke|url=http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/entertainment/224146001.html|accessdate=October 1, 2013|newspaper=Penticton Western News|date=September 17, 2013}}
Started with a Song was nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2014 Juno Awards.{{cite news|last=Kinos-Goodin|first=Jesse|title=Juno Awards 2014: meet the nominees|url=http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2014/2/Juno-Awards-2014-meet-the-nominees|accessdate=March 12, 2014|newspaper=CBC Music|date=February 4, 2014}}
Critical reception
Amanda Ash of the Edmonton Journal gave the album four stars out of five, calling it "a wham-bam collection of 10 sweeping love songs and lively party anthems that leave you glossy-eyed and daydream drunk." Ash wrote that "his songs like to play hooky with pop punches and rock growls, making for a cross-genre record that will surely befriend a very large audience."
Track listing
{{track listing
| total_length = 38:20
| title1 = Started with a Song
| writer1 = Brett Kissel, Craig Wiseman
| length1 = 4:18
| title2 = Tough People Do
| writer2 = Kissel, Ben Hayslip, Ted Hewitt
| length2 = 3:34
| title3 = 3-2-1
| writer3 = Kissel, Marv Green, Tim Nichols
| length3 = 3:35
| title4 = Something You Just Don't Forget
| writer4 = Kissel, Hewitt
| length4 = 3:09
| title5 = Raise Your Glass
| writer5 = Kissel, Wade Kirby, Jason Matthews
| length5 = 3:51
| title6 = Country in My Blood
| writer6 = Kissel, Duane Steele
| length6 = 3:50
| title7 = My Cowgirl
| writer7 = Kissel, Steele
| length7 = 3:34
| title8 = Girl in a Cowboy Hat
| writer8 = Steve Fox, Troy Kokol
| length8 = 3:04
| title9 = Canadian Kid
| writer9 = Kissel, Tim Taylor
| length9 = 3:12
| title10 = Together (Grandma & Grandpa's Song)
| writer10 = Kissel
| length10 = 6:13
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Walmart Deluxe Edition
| title11 = She Knows What She Likes
| writer11 =
| length11 = 2:26
| title12 = The Man I Am
| writer12 =
| length12 = 3:34
| title13 = Long Hot Summer
| writer13 =
| length13 = 3:35
}}
Chart performance
=Album=
| class="wikitable" |
| Chart (2013)
! Peak |
|---|
| {{album chart|BillboardCanada|22|artist=Brett Kissel}} |
=Singles=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |
| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="2"| Peak chart |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="45"| CAN Country ! width="45"| CAN |
| rowspan="2"| 2013
| align="left"| "Started with a Song" | 3 | 58 |
| align="left"| "Raise Your Glass"
| 7 | 88 |
| rowspan="3"| 2014
| align="left"| "3-2-1" | 3 | 52 |
| align="left"| "Tough People Do"
| 9 | 99 |
| align="left"| "Something You Just Don't Forget"
| 5 | 91 |
References
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