Livin' My Best Life

by Dylan Scott

Overview

Dylan Scott opens his long-awaited second album, Livin' My Best Life, with a song about a "New Truck" and concludes it with an ode to a small "Nothing to Do Town." Between those two points, he lingers on a variety of other country cliches, emphasizing bonhomie and bros over boozed-up partying. This softer touch allows Scott to pour his heart into the cornball "Can't Have Mine (Find You a Girl)," where he implores that you "find you a girl that leaves you speechless, gets wild on the town but still loves Jesus," a sticky sentiment that nevertheless sums up his appeal: he's an average dude who isn't afraid to let everybody know he has a good heart. Such amiable spirits can warm the clean contours of his slick country, one that seems tethered to the melodic country-pop of the mid-2010s, which just happens to be when he released his eponymous debut. Scott isn't necessarily stuck in the past so much as he traffics in shopworn ideas: he delivers standard country fare in a standard way, which places the album's success squarely on the strength of his own charisma. He's not a forceful singer, nor is he a monotone -- he's merely an average country singer, capable of navigating the twists in a melody without putting a distinctive spin on the tune. That makes for a perfectly competent and complacent listen: it goes down easy and leaves no trace. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/17/2024
Label:	Curb Records
UPC:	0194646044129
Rank:	1012

Tracks

1. This Town's Been too Good to Us
2. What He'll Never Have
3. Boys Back Home
4. Me and My Kind
5. I'll Be a Bartender
6. What I'd Want Mine to Say
7. Heartbeat of America
8. Getting Out Alive
9. New Truck
10. Amen to That
11. Can't Have Mine (Find You a Girl)
12. In Our Blood
13. Static
14. Lay Down with You
15. Boy I Was Back Then
16. Livin' My Best Life
17. Killin' Some Time
18. Ain't Much Left of Me
19. Leave Her Alone
20. Tough
21. Hell Out Of Me
22. Nobody
23. Good Times Go By too Fast
24. Nothing to Do Town
25. Good Times Go By too Fast (VAVO Remix)
26. This Town's Been too Good to Us (VAVO Remix)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dylan Scott   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Will Weatherly   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background),Drums,Keyboards
Matt Alderman   Drums,Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Darrick Cline   Drums
Mark Hill   Bass
Tim Galloway   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Curt Gibbs   Guitar (Acoustic)
Scotty Sanders   Guitar (Steel)
Tony Lucido   Bass
Justin Schipper   Guitar (Steel)
Katlin Owen   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Garrett Cline   Bass
Logan Robinson   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Jimmie Allen   Vocals,Featured Artist
Nir Z   Drums,Percussion
Alex Wright   Piano,Keyboards
Nirz   Drums
Ilya Toshinsky   Banjo,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Lars Thornton   Fiddle,Strings
Derek Wells   Guitar (Electric)
Katie Owen   Vocals (Background)
Miles McPherson   Drums
Dallas Wilson   Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Ilya Toshinskiy   Banjo,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)

Technical Credits

Will Weatherly   Drum Programming,Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Benjamin Johnson   Composer
Forest Whitehead   Mixing
Kam Luchterhand   Engineer
Thomas Rhett   Composer
David Bates   Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Tyler Hubbard   Composer
Brian Kelley   Composer
Laurel Kittleson   A&R
Robby Klein   Photography
Matt Alderman   Composer,Producer,Programming,Drum Programming,Keyboard Programming
Dylan Scott   Composer
Morgan Wallen   Composer
Hunter Phelps   Composer
Wes Youssi   Package Design
Mitchell Tenpenny   Composer
Thomas Archer   Composer
Andy Selby   Digital Editing
Craig White   Engineer
Corey Crowder   Composer,Programming
Justin Niebank   Mixing
Jim Ed Norman   Producer
Matt McGinn   Composer
Ashley Gorley   Composer
Curt Gibbs   Producer
Buckley Miller   Digital Editing
Andrew Mendelson   Mastering
Ainslie Grosser   Mixing
Adam Craig   Composer
Tommy Cecil   Composer,Programming,Drum Programming,Keyboard Programming
Dallas Davidson   Composer
James McNair   Composer
Taylor Phillips   Composer
Emily Landis   Composer
Michael Hardy   Composer
Ernest Keith Smith   Composer
Nir Z   Engineer,Digital Editing
Diana Wohl   A&R
Cameron Bedell   Composer
Christo Collins   Cover Design
Blair McDermott   Art Direction
Claire Douglas   Composer
Micha Ligon   A&R
Kelsey Hart   Composer
Tanya Dureaux   A&R
Josh Melton   Composer
David Spencer   Editing,Engineer,Digital Editing
John Denosky   Digital Editing
Jim Cooley   Mixing,Engineer
Chris Collins   Cover Design
Dallas Wilson   Composer,Programming
Mark Holman   Composer,Engineer,Producer,Programming,Drum Programming,Keyboard Programming
Brad Rempel   Composer
David Fanning   Composer
Cole Taylor   Composer
Rebekah Liles   A&R