Dear Life (album)

Dear Life
Studio album by High Valley
Released November 18, 2016 (2016-11-18)
Recorded 2014–16 in Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Label
Producer
  • Seth Mosley
  • Mike "X" O'Connor
High Valley chronology
County Line
(2014)		 Dear Life
(2016)
Singles from Dear Life
  1. "Make You Mine"
    Released: February 26, 2016
  2. "Every Week's Got a Friday"
    Released: August 26, 2016

Dear Life is the fifth studio album recorded by Canadian country music duo High Valley and the group's debut major-label release.[1] It was released on November 18, 2016 through Atlantic Records and Warner Music Nashville.[2] The American track listing for the album features two tracks from the duo's previous album, County Line (2014), in place of two of the newly-recorded songs, notably removing the Canadian lead single, "Every Week's Got a Friday" in favour of "Make You Mine".

Background

Following the departure of founding member Bryan Rempel in March 2014, High Valley returned as a duo and release their fourth studio album, County Line in October of that year.[3][4] They experienced a commercial breakthrough with the record, landing six consecutive singles in the top 10 on Canadian country radio from 2014 through 2016 and earning three Gold-certified singles from Music Canada.[5][6] In October 2015, High Valley signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and Warner Music Nashville.[7] They soon began working on new music for their major-label debut, and had recorded seven of the songs that would make the album's final track listing by May 2016.[1]

The title, cover, and release date of Dear Life were revealed on October 3, 2016.[2] The album was made available for pre-order on October 14.[2] In support of pre-orders, one new promotional track will be released to digital retailers weekly from October 14 through the release date of November 18, 2016.[8]

Singles

"Make You Mine" was re-issued in the United States on February 26, 2016 as their debut major-label single and lead single from Dear Life in that country.[9] It was serviced to radio on February 29, 2016.[10] The song debuted at number 59 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart in March 2016 and reached a peak position of 25 in November of that year.[11] It is also their first entry on the magazine's Hot Country Songs chart, where it has peaked at number 29.[12] "Make You Mine" was first released in Canada in December 2014, serving as the third single from previous album, County Line, and reached peaks of 5 and 58, respectively, on the Canada Country and Canadian Hot 100 charts.

In Canada, "Every Week's Got a Friday" was released August 26, 2016 as the album's lead single.[13] It has since reached 8 on the Canada Country chart.

Other songs

"Young Forever" was released in both countries as the first promotional single from the album on September 9, 2016.[14] It is also featured on the soundtrack to the sports video game, Madden NFL 17.[15]

"Long Way Home" was made available as an instant-grat track to Canadian digital retailers on October 14, 2016 when the album was made available for pre-orders.[16] In the US, "She's with Me" was made available instead.[17] "Dear Life", "Memory Makin'", and "I Be U Be" followed suit on October 28, November 4, and November 11, respectively.[18][19][20]

Track listing

Dear Life (Canadian edition)[21]
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Dear Life"  
  • Brad Rempel
  • Seth Mosley
  • Ben Stennis
 3:14
2. "I Ain't Changin'"  
 3:12
3. "Long Way Home"  
  • Oliver Lundström
  • Rempel
  • Mosley
  • Johan Åsgärde
 3:03
4. "Memory Makin'"  
  • Rempel
  • Mosley
  • Stennis
 2:39
5. "I Be U Be"  
  • Rempel
  • Jenson Vaughan
 3:33
6. "Roads We've Never Taken"  
 3:17
7. "Don't Stop"  
  • Rempel
  • Mosley
  • Stennis
 3:36
8. "The Only"  
 3:07
9. "Every Week's Got a Friday"  
  • Phil Barton
  • Rempel
  • Mosley
 3:08
10. "Soldier"  Josh O'Keefe, Marli Harwood, Michael Angelo 3:23
11. "Young Forever"  
  • Rempel
  • Mosley
  • Stennis
 3:40

Personnel

Credits are adapted from liner notes of Dear Life.[23]

High Valley
Musicians

  • Drums – Nick Buda, Shannon Forrest, Miles McPherson, Ben Phillips, Nir Z
  • Bass – Joey Canaday, Tony Lucido, Steven Mackey, Mike "X" O'Connor, Jimmy Lee Sloas
  • Guitar – Mike "X" O'Connor, Raymond Klassen, Tom Bukovac, Chris LaCarte, Troy Lancaster, Dan Macal, Rob McNelley, Seth Mosley, Mike Payne, Keith Sewell, Ilya Toshinskiy, Derek Wells
  • Programming – Mike "X" O'Connor, Seth Mosley
  • Dobro – Raymond Klassen, Josh Matheny
  • Keys – Tim Lauer
  • Cello – Carole Rabinowitz
  • Viola – Kristin Wilkinson
  • Violin – David Davidson, David Angel
  • Orchestrations – David Davidson
  • Background vocals – Seth Mosley, Ty Hutner, Dusty Hunter, Jerricho Scroggins, Asa Wiggins, Ally Smith, Luke Brown, Jordan Phillips, Ben Stennis, Adam Stark, Dave Myers, Patrick Donahoe

Production

  • Production – Seth Mosley, Mike "X" O'Connor
  • Recording – Mike "X" O'Connor, Jerricho Scroggins
    • Recorded at Castle Recording Studio, Dark Horse Recording, Full Circle Music, Portofino Island Resort, Beachy Keen, Little Big Sound (strings)
  • String engineer – Bobby Shin
    • Assistant string recording – Jerricho Scroggins
  • Mixing – Mike "X" O'Connor, Jerricho Scroggins, Sean Moffit (strings)
    • Additional mixing – Tom Coyne, Mark Endert, F. Reid Shippen
  • Digital editing – Michael Sanders, Andy Selby, Nick Schwarz, Asa Wiggins, Mike "X" O'Connor, Jerricho Scroggins
    • Additional editing – Michael Sanders, Dave Hagen
  • Mastering – Tom Coyne, Randy Merrill

Design

  • Creative direction – Shane Tarleton
  • Art direction & design – Mike Moore
  • Photography – Robby Klein
  • Styling – Kim Perrett
  • Grooming – Libby Barnes

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[24] 36
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[25] 37
US Top Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[26] 3

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
CAN Country
[5]		 CAN
[27]		 US Hot Country
[12]		 US Country Airplay
[28]
2016 "Make You Mine"A B 5 58 28 21
"Every Week's Got a Friday"C 8 — —
"—" denotes a single that failed to chart or was not released to that format.
Notes

References

  1. 1 2 Stark, Phyllis (May 4, 2016). "High Valley's 'Progressive-Meets-Old-School' Sound Piques Interest of Atlantic/WMN, Spotify". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Black, Lauren Jo (October 3, 2016). "High Valley Announces Debut Album, 'Dear Life'". Sounds Like Nashville. Spin Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Tinson, Kayla (March 10, 2014). "Bryan Rempel leaving High Valley". Top Country. TC Inc. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ MacPherson, Alex J. (November 14, 2014). "Award-winning country group High Valley emerge from a lineup change with their strongest album yet". Verb News. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "High Valley – Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Canadian certifications – High Valley". Music Canada. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  7. ↑ Nicholson, Jessica (October 8, 2015). "High Valley Inks Deal With Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville". MusicRow. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  8. ↑ Press Release (October 15, 2016). "High Valley Album "Dear Life" Available For Pre-Order". The Country Note. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Make You Mine - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ "High Valley – Make You Mine (Radio Edit)". Play MPE. Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ ""Make You Mine" on Country Airplay". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  12. 1 2 "High Valley – Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Every Week's Got a Friday - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Young Forever - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Madden NFL 17 Soundtrack". EA Sports. Electronic Arts. August 3, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Long Way Home - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  17. ↑ "She's With Me - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Dear Life - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Memory Makin' - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  20. ↑ "I Be U Be - High Valley | Release Info". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  21. ↑ "Dear Life by High Valley". iTunes Store (Canada). Apple Inc. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Dear Life by High Valley". iTunes Store (US). Apple Inc. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  23. ↑ Dear Life (Compact disc liner notes). High Valley. Warner Music Nashville. 2016. B01M0DKF42.
  24. ↑ "On The Charts". FYIMusicNews. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Top Country Albums: The Week Of December 10, 2016". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Heatseekers Albums: The Week Of December 10, 2016". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  27. ↑ "High Valley – Chart History (Billboard Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  28. ↑ "High Valley – Chart History (Country Airplay)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved October 16, 2016.

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