The Love Songs (Clint Black album)
# The Love Songs (Clint Black album)

Professional ratings :

| Review scores ||
| - | - |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |

The Love Songs is a 2007 (see 2007 in music) album by country singer Clint Black. It consists of newly recorded versions of many of his love songs along with a cover version of Jim Croce's "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".

According to Black, many of the songs remain true to the original version while a few get a slight update. "I wanted to do a record that's not just a reissue of hits", Black said. "Sometimes when I go back and revisit my older recordings, I find little things that, in hindsight, I feel I could improve on just a bit—some new twist that might make it just a little bit better. It might be a slight change in the arrangement, or the way vocals are layered. And there were also times when I listened to a particular recording and felt there really wasn't a change that would make it better."

The album cover was designed by Peter Max and depicts Black with wife Lisa Hartman Black.

## Personnel

Band

* Bryan Austin — acoustic guitar, background vocals
* Clint Black — acoustic guitar, harmonica, percussion, electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals, bass harmonica
* Dane Bryant — piano, keyboards, background vocals
* Lenny Castro — percussion
* Perry Coleman — background vocals
* Steve Dorff — conductor, orchestral arrangements
* Stuart Duncan — fiddle, mandolin
* Paul Franklin — steel guitar
* Dick Gay — drums
* Carl Gorodetzky — concert master
* Lisa Hartman Black — duet vocals on "When I Said I Do" and "Easy for Me to Say"
* Wes Hightower — background vocals
* Carolyn Dawn Johnson — duet vocals on "Our Kind of Love"
* Abraham Laboriel — bass guitar
* Nashville String Machine — orchestra
* Hayden Nicholas — electric guitar
* Dean Parks — acoustic guitar
* Jeff Peterson — steel guitar
* John "J.R." Robinson — drums
* Matt Rollings — grand piano
* Steve Wariner — electric guitar, background vocals
* Jake Willemain — bass guitar
* Martin Young — acoustic guitar

Production

* Zack Berry — production coordinator, assistant engineer
* Clint Black — producer
* Zeke Clark — assistant engineer
* Ricky Cobble — engineer, mixing
* Steve Lockhart — technical support
* Ray Rogers — engineering support
* Hank Williams — mastering

## Chart positions

| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
| - | - |
| US Top Country Albums | 37 |
| US Top Independent Albums | 24 |
