XII (Neal McCoy album)

XII is an album by American country music singer Neal McCoy. Released on March 6, 2012, by Blaster Records, it is his first album of new material since That's Life in 2005. Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert co-produced the album with Brent Rowan. The album includes the single "A-OK".

Critical reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "finds him doing what he does best, performing nimble mainstream country music tunes as good as anything else on the marketplace." Rating it four stars out of five, Taste of Country writer Billy Dukes favorably compared McCoy's vocals to Shelton's. J. Poet of Allmusic rated it three stars out of five, saying that the album had "one great tune, two good ones, and a whole lot that get by on McCoy's powerful vocals".

Track listing

Personnel

Perry Coleman – background vocals

Eric Darken – percussion

Scott Ducaj – trumpet

Dan Dugmore – dobro, electric guitar, steel guitar, lap steel guitar

Lester Estelle Jr. – drums

David Grissom – electric guitar

Aubrey Haynie – fiddle

Wes Hightower – background vocals

John Barlow Jarvis – piano

Kim Keyes – background vocals

Miranda Lambert – background vocals

Tim Lauer – organ, synthesizer, Wurlitzer

Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar

Neal McCoy – lead vocals, whistle

Greg Morrow – drums, percussion

Wendy Moten – background vocals

Michael Rhodes – bass guitar

Mike Rojas – piano

Brent Rowan – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, sitar

Blake Shelton – acoustic guitar, background vocals

Bryan Sutton – banjo, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar

Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Charts

References

2012 albums

Neal McCoy albums

Albums produced by Brent Rowan