Where We Started

Thomas Rhett began writing songs for the album in 2019, but found out that he was experiencing writer's block. He told the blog Sounds Like Nashville that he took six months away from writing songs before coming back to continue the album's material. The album includes the lead single "Slow Down Summer", along with three collaborations: Tyler Hubbard (of Florida Georgia Line) and Russell Dickerson on "Death Row", Riley Green on "Half of Me", and Katy Perry on the title track.{{cite web | url=https://www.soundslikenashville.com/news/thomas-rhett-talks-creating-where-we-started-and-beating-writers-block/ | title=Thomas Rhett talks creating 'Where We Started' and beating writer's block | first=Grace Lenehan | last=Vaughn | publisher=Sounds Like Nashville | date=April 4, 2022 | accessdate=April 15, 2022 | archive-date=December 1, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201103725/https://www.soundslikenashville.com/news/thomas-rhett-talks-creating-where-we-started-and-beating-writers-block/ | url-status=live }}

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album 3.5 out of 5 stars, stating that it was "sunny and sweet, an ideal soundtrack for any afternoon activity from housecleaning to day drinking: it sustains its cheerful mood from stem to stern." He compared the title track to the sound of Sam Hunt, and criticized "Death Row" for its lyrics and Hubbard's vocals.{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/where-we-started-mw0003658180 | title=Where We Started review | publisher=AllMusic | accessdate=April 15, 2022 | archive-date=April 16, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416034634/https://www.allmusic.com/album/where-we-started-mw0003658180 | url-status=live }}

In the United States, Where We Started debuted at number 12 on Billboard 200 with 29,000 equivalent album units sold in its first week.{{Cite magazine |last=Asker |first=Jim |date=April 12, 2022 |title=Thomas Rhett & Katy Perry Get 'Started' on Billboard Country Charts |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/thomas-rhett-katy-perry-get-started-billboard-country-charts/ |access-date=April 17, 2022 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |archive-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417063516/https://www.billboard.com/pro/thomas-rhett-katy-perry-get-started-billboard-country-charts/ |url-status=live }} The album also opened at number two on Top Country Albums, becoming his sixth top 10 on the chart.

{{Track listing

| headline = Where We Started track listing

| title1 = The Hill

| writer1 = {{hlist|Lori McKenna|Jordan Reynolds|Emily Weisband}}

| length1 = 2:45

| title2 = Church Boots

| writer2 = {{hlist|Thomas Rhett|Jesse Frasure|Ashley Gorley|Ernest Keith Smith}}

| length2 = 2:56

| title3 = Bass Pro Hat

| writer3 = {{hlist|Rhett|Matt Dragstrem|Josh Miller|Josh Thompson}}

| length3 = 2:55

| title4 = Anything Cold

| writer4 = {{hlist|Rhett|Frasure|Gorley|Shane McAnally}}

| length4 = 2:45

| title5 = Angels (Don't Always Have Wings)

| writer5 = {{hlist|Rhett|Thompson|Julian Bunetta|Teddy Swims}}

| length5 = 3:34

| title6 = Half of Me

| writer6 = {{hlist|Rhett|Thompson|Rhett Akins|Will Bundy}}

| note6 = featuring Riley Green

| length6 = 3:02

| title7 = Bring the Bar

| writer7 = {{hlist|Rhett|Akins|Gorley|Frasure|Parker Welling}}

| length7 = 3:29

| title8 = Paradise

| writer8 = {{hlist|Rhett|Dragstrem|Smith|Thompson}}

| length8 = 3:08

| title9 = Death Row

| writer9 = {{hlist|Rhett|Gorley|Zach Crowell}}

| note9 = featuring Tyler Hubbard and Russell Dickerson

| length9 = 3:50

| title10 = Mama's Front Door

| writer10 = {{hlist|Rhett|Dragstrem|Gorley|Chase McGill}}

| length10 = 2:41

| title11 = Slow Down Summer

| writer11 = {{hlist|Rhett|Akins|Frasure|Gorley|Sean Douglas}}

| length11 = 3:36

| title12 = Simple as a Song

| writer12 = {{hlist|Rhett|Thompson|Luke Laird}}

| length12 = 3:20

| title13 = Us Someday

| writer13 = {{hlist|Rhett|Akins|Frasure|Amy Wadge}}

| length13 = 2:22

| title14 = Somebody Like Me

| writer14 = {{hlist|Rhett|Akins|Dragstrem|Thompson}}

| length14 = 2:49

| title15 = Where We Started

| writer15 = {{hlist|Rhett|Katy Perry|Frasure|Gorley|Jon Bellion}}

| note15 = with Katy Perry

| length15 = 3:01

| total_length = 46:13

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• Thomas Rhett – lead vocals, backing vocals (2–4, 7–9, 11–14), whistle (4, 8)
• Charlie Judge – acoustic piano (2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14), synthesizers (1, 8–10, 12, 13), Hammond B3 organ (2–7, 9, 10, 14, 15), Wurlitzer electric piano (4, 12), Rhodes piano (8, 14)
• Justin Niebank – programming (1–3, 6–15)
• Jesse Frasure – programming (1, 2, 6–15), electric guitar (2), synth bass (2, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15), acoustic piano (4), synthesizers (4, 15), backing vocals (4), synth strings (11, 13)
• David Huff – programming (2, 3, 5, 7–14)
• Matt Dragstrem – programming (3, 14), backing vocals (8, 14), acoustic piano (14), synthesizers (14), electric guitar (14)
• Luke Laird – programming (12), synthesizers (12), synth strings (12), synth bass (12)
• Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitars, gut string guitar (1), dobro (2, 3), ganjo (3), mandolin (3, 11), ukulele (4, 12), banjo (13)
• Derek Wells – electric guitar (1–4, 6, 8–15), slide electric guitar (7), electric guitar solo (14)
• Dann Huff – electric guitar (2, 4–8, 10–12), electric guitar solo (2–4, 6, 9, 10), mandolin (6, 11), synth flute (8), slide electric guitar (8, 11), sitar (8, 11, 12), programming (9, 10, 15), synth bass (10)
• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar (5)
• Julien Bunetta – acoustic guitar (5)
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar (1, 3, 5–11, 13, 15)
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• Shannon Forrest – drums (1, 6)
• Chris Kimmerer – drums (2–4, 7–14), percussion (4, 12, 15)
• Jerry Roe – drums (5)
• Stuart Duncan – fiddle (3)
• Kristin Wilkinson – string arrangements (1, 11–13, 15)
• Stephen Lamb – copyist (11, 12, 15)
• Kevin Bate – cello (1, 11–13, 15)
• Austin Hoke – cello (1, 13)
• Sari Reist – cello (11, 12, 15)
• Monisa Angell – viola (1, 11–13, 15)
• Betsy Lamb – viola (1, 13)
• Chris Farrell – viola (11, 12, 15)
• David Angell – violin (1, 11–13, 15), string contractor (11, 12, 15)
• Jenny Bifano – violin (1, 13)
• David Davidson – violin (1, 11–13, 15)
• Alicia Engstrom – violin (1, 13)
• Jun Iwasaki – violin (1, 11–13, 15)
• Karen Winklemann – violin (1, 13)
• Conni Ellisor – violin (11, 12, 15)
• Josh Reedy – backing vocals (1–4, 6–14)
• Stevie Frasure – backing vocals (2, 11, 13)
• Teddy Swims – backing vocals (5)
• Riley Green – featured vocals (6)
• Russell Dickerson – featured vocals (9)
• Tyler Hubbard – featured vocals (9)
• Katy Perry – featured vocals (15)
• Jon Bellion – backing vocals (15)

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