All I Want is the third studio album by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on September 19, 1995. The album sold over two million copies and reached the top 5 on the Billboard 200. It has been certified triple-Platinum by the RIAA. The album's singles were, in order of release: "I Like It, I Love It", "Can't Be Really Gone", "All I Want Is a Life", "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" and "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It". Respectively, these reached No. 1, No. 2, No. 5, No. 1, and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "I Like It, I Love It" was also a No. 25 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. This was Tim's last album to have a neotraditional country sound before developing a more crossover-friendly country-pop sound.
Contents
Personnel
Mike Brignardello – bass
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
Steve Dorff – string arrangements and conductor
Glen Duncan – fiddle
Sonny Garrish – dobro, pedal steel guitar
Dann Huff – electric guitar
Tim McGraw – lead vocals
Terry McMillan – percussion
Steve Nathan – keyboards, Hammond B3 organ
Matt Rollings – piano, keyboards, Hammond B3 organ
Brent Rowan – electric guitar
Lonnie Wilson – drums
Glenn Worf – bass on "All I Want is a Life"
Curtis Wright – backing vocals
Curtis Young – backing vocals
Nashville String Machine – string section
Production
Byron Gallimore – producer
James Stroud – producer
Missi Callis – production assistant
Abbe Nameche – production assistant
Stephanie Orr – production assistant
Tamera Petrash – production assistant
Doug Rich – production assistant
Technical
Julian King – recording
Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
Ricky Cobble – additional engineer, assistant engineer, recording assistant
Jerry Puckett – additional engineer
Mark Hagen – recording assistant, mix assistant
Craig White – recording assistant
Doug Sax – mastering