Good Times | ||||
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Released | September 21, 2004 | |||
Studio | Bismeaux Studios and Boar's Nest Studio, Austin, TX | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 47:40 | |||
Label | Dualtone Records | |||
Producer | ||||
Charlie Robison chronology | ||||
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Good Times is the fifth solo studio album by Charlie Robison, released on September 21, 2004. It is his seventh album, overall, including a live album, appropriately titled Live, as well as a collaborate effort with Jack Ingram and Charlie's brother, Bruce Robison, titled Unleashed Live. Good Times peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.[1]
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Source | Rating |
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The Austin Chronicle | 4/5[4] |
Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. of AllMusic says, "Robison isn't a mainstream country singer, but seems like he's playing country music because it's part of who he is and how he thinks, not because a friend loaned him a George Jones album in college."[2]
Hank Kalet of PopMatters rates this album a 7 and writes, "Throughout, there is an ominous shadow cast that makes the good times seem a desperate attempt to keep away the blues. There is sadness and there are good times and they mingle, inform each other, change each other."[3]
Christopher Gray of The Austin Chronicle gives the album 4 stars and says, "Good Times is darker and mellower than 2001's Life of the Party, but only because there's no song told by a brawling Irishman."[4]
All tracks are written by Charlie Robison, unless otherwise noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Good Times" | 3:53 | |
2. | "New Year's Day" | 3:51 | |
3. | "El Cerrito Place" | Keith Gattis | 5:38 |
4. | "Big City Blues" | Keith Gattis | 3:48 |
5. | "The Bottom" | Waylon Payne | 5:03 |
6. | "Love Mens Never Having To Say You're Hungry" | 3:48 | |
7. | "Photograph" | 3:46 | |
8. | "Something in The Water" | 3:51 | |
9. | "Always" | 5:08 | |
10. | "Flatland Boogie" | Terry Allen | 4:18 |
11. | "Magnolia" | 4:36 | |
Total length: | 47:40 |
Track information and credits adapted the album's liner notes.[5]
Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[1] | 52 |