I'm Still Here (album)

I'm Still Here is the fifth and final studio album by American country music artist Mindy McCready. It was released on March 23, 2010, via Linus Entertainment. The album includes the single "I'm Still Here," as well as re-recordings of her 1996 singles "Guys Do It All the Time" and "Ten Thousand Angels." Mindy performed on Fox & Friends to promote the album in April 2010. This is McCready's final release before her death in 2013.

I'm Still Here
Studio album by Mindy McCready
Released	March 23, 2010
Genre	Country
Length	47:47
Label	Linus Entertainment
Producer	Christopher Jak, Trey Bruce and Jimmy Nichols[1]
Mindy McCready chronology
Mindy McCready (2002) I'm Still Here (2010)
Singles from I'm Still Here
"I'm Still Here" Released: 2008 "I Want a Man" Released: 2010

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wrong Again"	Gary Burr, Helen Darling	3:19
2.	"By Her Side"	Whitney Duncan, Blu Sanders	3:48
3.	"I Want a Man"	McCready, Robin Lee Bruce, Billy Crain	3:35
4.	"I'm Still Here"	McCready, Trey Bruce, Rachel Thibodeau	4:10
5.	"I Want to Love You"	Lisa Carver, Shelly Fairchild, Stephony Smith	3:38
6.	"Songs About You"	Blair Daly, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges	3:33
7.	"The Way You Make Me Melt"	McCready, Bruce, Thibodeau	4:25
8.	"The Dance"	Tony Arata	4:10
9.	"I Hate That I Love You"	Ashley Gorley, Wade Kirby, Bryan Simpson	2:39
10.	"Fades"	Kyle Jacobs, Melissa Peirce	3:26
11.	"By Her Side" (Acoustic Version)	Duncan, Sanders	3:53
12.	"Guys Do It All the Time" (Newly Updated Version)	Kim Tribble, Robert Whiteside	3:17
13.	"Ten Thousand Angels" (Newly Updated Version)	Billy Henderson, Steven D. Jones	3:54

Personnel

• Matt Billingslea – drums
• Stevie Blacke – synthesizer strings
• Richard "Spady" Brannan – bass guitar
• Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
• Trey Bruce – electric guitar, percussion
• Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
• Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
• Smith Curry – pedal steel guitar, dobro
• Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
• Jason "Slim" Gambill – electric guitar
• Tony Harrell – keyboards, piano
• Christopher Jak – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
• Jeremy Lawton – keyboards, piano
• Robin Lee – background vocals
• Paul Leim – drums
• Mindy McCready – lead vocals
• Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Stewart Meyers – bass guitar
• Greg Morrow – drums
• Wendy Moten – background vocals
• Jimmy Nichols – keyboards, piano, background vocals
• John Osborne – electric guitar
• Michael Spriggs – acoustic guitar
• Stephanie Lane Stephenson – background vocals
• Crystal Taliaferro – background vocals
• Rachel Thibodeau – background vocals
• Patrick Warren – keyboards, piano
• Charlie Worsham – mandolin
• Jonathan Yudkin – cello, viola, violin

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Country Weekly	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B[4]
Slant Magazine	[5]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album three out of five stars, stating "the songs are generally a mixed bag, veering from sweetly melancholy to syrupy, but McCready has never been more sensitive as a vocalist, pulling the album through the rough patches and convincingly selling the notion that she’s a sober survivor." [2] Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly magazine rated it two-and-a-half stars out of five, saying that it "peaks" with the title track. She said that McCready's vocals were "confident" but added that the album was a "hodgepodge of songs."[3]

References

1. "For Immediate Release! - Mindy McCready.com". Retrieved 2010-03-25.
2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "I'm Still Here - Mindy McCready". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
3. Phillips, Jessica (22 March 2010). "I'm Still Here by Mindy McCready". Country Weekly. 17 (12): 52.
4. Wood, Mikael (2010-03-26). "I'm Still Here Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
5. Keefe, Jonathan (2010-04-06). "Mindy McCready: I'm Still Here". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2013-06-14.