{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Bring You Back | type = studio | artist = Brett Eldredge | cover = Bring You Back.jpg | border = yes | alt = | released = {{Start date|2013|8|6}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country | length = | label = Atlantic Records | producer = {{hlist|Ross Copperman|Brad Crisler|Chris DeStefano|Brett Eldredge|Byron Gallimore|Scott Hendricks|Luke Laird}} | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Illinois | next_year = 2015 | misc = {{Singles | name = Bring You Back | type = studio | single1 = Raymond | single1date = September 27, 2010 | single2 = Don't Ya | single2date = October 8, 2012 | single3 = Beat of the Music | single3date = September 30, 2013 | single4 = Mean to Me | single4date = July 14, 2014 }} }}
'''''Bring You Back''''' is the debut album by American country music artist Brett Eldredge. It was released on August 6, 2013, by Atlantic Records. The album was originally titled ''One Way Ticket'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tasteofcountry.com/brett-eldredge-one-way-ticket-interview/|title=Brett Eldredge Books His 'One Way Ticket' to Stardom With Upcoming Album|first=Alanna|last=Conaway|date=25 July 2011|website=Taste of Country|access-date=1 June 2023}}</ref> and was to include Eldredge's second single "It Ain't Gotta Be Love".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mojim.com/ush120508.htm|title=Brett Eldredge( Brett Ryan Eldredge ) 9 albums 49 lyrics ※ Mojim.com Lyrics|website=Mojim.com|access-date=1 June 2023}}</ref> However, the album was renamed before release and "It Ain't Gotta Be Love" was scrapped from the final track listing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tasteofcountry.com/brett-eldredge-bring-you-back-track-listing/|title=Brett Eldredge Reveals Cover Art and Track Listing for 'Bring You Back'|last=Sciarretto|first=Amy|date=21 June 2012|work=Taste of Country|access-date=4 August 2013}}</ref> The album includes the singles "Raymond", "Don't Ya", "Beat of the Music" and "Mean to Me", the latter three of which all reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Country Airplay chart. The album has gained critical acclaim by music critics.
==Songs== Brett Eldredge stated that the last song "Go On Without Me" was written in memoriam about Lindsay Nicole Walleman,<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://wujekcalcaterra.tributes.com/show/Lindsay-Nicole-Walleman-95612622|title=Lindsay Nicole Walleman Obituary|publisher=Wujek - Calcaterra & Sons|access-date=August 23, 2013}}</ref> the Manager of Midwest/Northeast Promotions, W.A.R. Team at Warner Music Nashville, after she died of cancer in 2013.<ref name=bbcom>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/brett-eldredge-is-finally-ready-to-bring-you-back-exclusive-video-5428424/|title=Brett Eldredge Is Finally Ready to 'Bring You Back': Exclusive Video|last=Dauphin|first=Chuck|date=August 1, 2013|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 23, 2013}}</ref><ref name=bbbiz>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/1556738/lindsay-walleman-of-warner-music-nashville-dead-at-28|title=Lindsay Walleman of Warner Music Nashville Dead at 28|author=Billboard staff|date=April 9, 2013|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 23, 2013|archive-date=May 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529170553/http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/1556738/lindsay-walleman-of-warner-music-nashville-dead-at-28|url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, Eldredge noted that Walleman was "'one of the people who were fighting for me to get on the radio'", and he told that "'When the label heard this song, they agreed that we were finishing the album with it.'"<ref name=bbcom /><ref name=bbbiz />
On August 17, 2023, Eldredge released the ten year edition of the album featuring a bonus track called "Adios Old Friend".<ref>{{cite web|url= https://musicrow.com/2023/08/brett-eldredge-to-release-10th-anniversary-edition-of-bring-you-back|title=Brett Eldredge to Release 10th Anniversary of 'Bring You Back'|author=Lorie Hollabaugh|publisher=Music Row|date=August 17, 2023|access-date=August 17, 2023}}</ref>
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/bring-you-back-mw0002556444|title=Bring You Back - Brett Eldredge : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|date=August 6, 2013|website=AllMusic|access-date=August 6, 2013}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Country Weekly'' | rev2Score = B+<ref name=countryweekly>{{cite journal|last=Paxman|first=Bob|date=5 August 2012|title=Reviews: Brett Eldredge: ''Bring You Back''|journal=Country Weekly|volume=20|issue=31|page=51|issn=1074-3235}}</ref> | rev3 = Digital Journal | rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=digitaljournal>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/355906 |title=Review: Brett Eldredge masterful on new album 'Bring You Back' |last=Papadatos |first=Markos |date=August 5, 2013 |publisher=Digital Journal |access-date=August 6, 2013 }}</ref> | rev4 = Got Country Online | rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name=gotcountryonline>{{cite web|url=http://www.gotcountryonline.com/2013/07/01/album-review-brett-eldredge-bring-you-back/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130806235833/http://www.gotcountryonline.com/2013/07/01/album-review-brett-eldredge-bring-you-back/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 6, 2013|title=ALBUM REVIEW: Brett Eldredge "Bring You Back"|last=Block|first=Donna|date=July 1, 2013|publisher=Got Country Online|access-date=August 6, 2013}}</ref> | rev5 = Roughstock | rev5Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=roughstock>{{cite web|url=http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/album-review-brett-eldredge-bring-you-back|title=Album Review: Brett Eldredge - Bring You Back|last=McIntosh|first=Dan|date=August 5, 2013|publisher=Roughstock|access-date=August 6, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811121803/http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/album-review-brett-eldredge-bring-you-back|archive-date=August 11, 2013}}</ref> | rev6 = Taste of Country | rev6Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=tasteofcountry>{{cite web|url=http://tasteofcountry.com/brett-eldredge-bring-you-back/|title=Brett Eldredge, 'Bring You Back' – Album Review|last=Dukes|first=Billy|date=August 6, 2013|publisher=Taste of Country|access-date=August 6, 2013}}</ref> }} ''Bring You Back'' garnered critical acclaim from the six music critics to review the album. At Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine highlighted that the release is "crisp, chipper, and eager to please, an album that cheerfully checks off every box on contemporary country radio."<ref name=allmusic /> In addition, Erlewine noted that "everything" contained on the effort "is shiny, happy country-pop -- even the ballads feel bright -- but that's the appeal of Eldredge and his debut: everybody involved worked hard to deliver a piece of gleaming modern country product, and it's hard to resist all that impeccable craft."<ref name=allmusic /> Giving it a "B+", Bob Paxman of ''Country Weekly'' described Eldredge's voice as "soulful", comparing his delivery on "Waited Too Long" and the title track favorably to Travis Tritt. He wrote that some of the songs "travel down the often-trod pavement of small-town odes[…]But never do they sound contrived or overly sentimental". However, he called "On and On" and "Beat of the Music" "ordinary".<ref name=countryweekly />
Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal told that everyone of the "songs on here are flawless and they each have their own identities", which they are " not overdone or overproduced", and the tracks are "well-written and sung from the heart."<ref name=digitaljournal /> Additionally, Papadatos stated that "if a baseball analogy were used to describe the excellence of this album, it is safe to say that Brett has hit a grand slam with 'Bring You Back.'"<ref name=digitaljournal /> Got Country Online's Donna Block noted that "just as his music covers many genres, the songs on his album will touch a wide range of emotions."<ref name=gotcountryonline /> At Roughstock, Dan MacIntosh felt that "maybe it's this album's overall sonic warmth that makes it feel undeniably Country, even without many of the more obvious aural clues."<ref name=roughstock /> Billy Dukes of Taste of Country found that "the pace is exhilarating, but also worth noting are the subtle warbles and variations in his voice that make each song on 'Bring You Back' a unique moment."<ref name=tasteofcountry />
==Track listing== {{track listing | total_length = | extra_column = Producer | title1 = Tell Me Where to Park | writer1 = {{hlist|Brett Eldredge|Jon Nite|Greg Becker}} | length1 = 2:57|extra1 = Luke Laird | title2 = Don't Ya | writer2 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Chris DeStefano|Ashley Gorley}} | length2 = 3:01 | extra2 = DeStefano | title3 = Bring You Back | writer3 = {{hlist|Ross Copperman|Heather Morgan}} | length3 = 3:12|extra3 = Copperman | title4 = On and On | writer4 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Laird|Shane McAnally}} | length4 = 3:08| extra4 = Laird | title5 = Gotta Get There | writer5 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Laird|Barry Dean}} | length5 = 3:23| extra5 = Laird | title6 = One Mississippi | writer6 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Tom Douglas}} | length6 = 3:45| extra6 = Scott Hendricks | title7 = Beat of the Music | writer7 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Copperman|Morgan}} | length7 = 2:59 |extra7 = {{hlist|Elderedge|Copperman}} | title8 = Waited Too Long | writer8 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Brad Crisler}} | length8 = 3:59 |extra8 = Brad Crisler | title9 = Mean to Me | writer9 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Scooter Carusoe}} | length9 = 3:48 | extra9 = Laird | title10 = Signs | writer10 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Crisler|Bill Anderson}} | length10 = 3:53 | extra10 = Byron Gallimore | title11 = Raymond | writer11 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Crisler}} | length11 = 3:39 | extra11 = Gallimore | title12 = Go On Without Me | writer12 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Copperman|Natalie Hemby}} | length12 = 3:16 | extra12 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Copperman}} }} {{Track listing | headline = 10-Year Anniversary Edition | extra_column = Producer | title13 = One Mississippi - Live from CMT's Listen Up | writer13 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Douglas}} | length13 = 4:11 | extra13 = Mark Hall | title14 = Adios Old Friend - 10-Year Anniversary Bonus Track | writer14 = {{hlist|Eldredge|Jon Randall}} | length14 = 4:17 }}
==Personnel== * Walt Aldridge – acoustic guitar {{small|(track 8)}} * Steve Brewster – drums {{small|(track 3)}} * Mike Brignardello – bass guitar {{small|(tracks 10, 11)}} * Stephanie Chapman – background vocals {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}} * Perry Coleman – background vocals {{small|(tracks 1, 9)}} * Ross Copperman – accordion {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, acoustic guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, electric guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, mandolin {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, programming {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}} * Brad Crisler – Hammond B-3 organ {{small|(track 8)}}, piano {{small|(track 8)}} * Chris DeStefano – bass guitar {{small|(track 2)}}, drums {{small|(track 2)}}, fiddle {{small|(track 2)}}, banjitar {{small|(track 2)}}, acoustic guitar {{small|(track 2)}}, electric guitar {{small|(track 2)}} mandolin {{small|(track 2)}}, background vocals {{small|(track 2)}} * Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, electric guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, pedal steel guitar {{small|(tracks 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12)}} * Stuart Duncan – fiddle {{small|(track 10)}} * Mike Durham – acoustic guitar {{small|(tracks 1, 9)}}, electric guitar {{small|(tracks 1, 4, 5, 9)}} * Brett Eldredge – lead vocals {{small|(all tracks)}}, background vocals {{small|(tracks 1, 4, 5, 9)}} * Fred Eltringham – drums {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}} * Shawn Fichter – drums {{small|(tracks 1, 4, 5, 9)}} * Shannon Forrest – drums {{small|(tracks 10, 11)}} * Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar {{small|(track 10)}} * Byron Gallimore – electric guitar {{small|(track 11)}} * Tommy Harden – drums {{small|(track 8)}} * Tony Harrell – Hammond B-3 organ {{small|(track 10)}}, piano {{small|(track 10)}} * Natalie Hemby – background vocals {{small|(tracks 6, 7, 12)}} * Wes Hightower – background vocals {{small|(tracks 10, 11)}} * Mark Hill – bass guitar {{small|(track 3)}} * Charlie Judge – keyboards {{small|(tracks 4, 5)}}, piano {{small|(track 6)}}, synthesizer strings {{small|(track 6)}} * Jeff King – electric guitar {{small|(track 3)}} * Luke Laird – acoustic guitar {{small|(tracks 1, 4, 5, 9)}}, electric guitar {{small|(track 4)}} * Troy Lancaster – electric guitar {{small|(track 8)}} * Jason Lehning – electric guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, Hammond B-3 organ {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, piano {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, synthesizer {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}} * Rachel Loy – bass guitar {{small|(tracks 1, 4, 5, 9)}} * Tony Lucido – bass guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}} * Chris McHugh – percussion {{small|(track 6)}} * Brent Mason – electric guitar {{small|(tracks 10, 11)}} * Heather Morgan – background vocals {{small|(track 3)}} * Craig Nelson – bass guitar {{small|(track 6)}} * Jimmy Nichols – piano {{small|(track 11)}}, synthesizer strings {{small|(track 11)}} * Josh Osborne – acoustic guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, electric guitar {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}}, mandolin {{small|(tracks 7, 12)}} * Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar {{small|(tracks 1, 6, 9)}} * Alison Prestwood – bass guitar {{small|(track 8)}} * Matt Stanfield – keyboards {{small|(tracks 1, 9)}} * Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar {{small|(tracks 10, 11)}} * Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar {{small|(track 5)}}, gut string guitar {{small|(track 6)}} * Jason Webb – keyboards {{small|(track 3)}} * Lee Ann Womack — background vocals {{small|(track 14)}}
==Chart positions== The album debuted at No. 11 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and No. 2 on the Top Country Albums chart, with 21,000 copies sold in the U.S. in its debut week.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/pro/brett-eldredge-back-on-top-country-albums-for-first-time/ |title=Brett Eldredge 'Back' On Top Country Albums For First Time |author= Wade Jessen, Nashville |date= August 15, 2013 |magazine=Billboard }}</ref> It was the best start by a new male artist on Top Country Albums in nearly a year. The album has sold 183,000 copies in the U.S. as of June 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hitsdailydouble.com/new_album_releases |title=Upcoming Releases: Hits Daily Double |publisher=Hits Daily Double |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627143834/http://hitsdailydouble.com/new_album_releases |archivedate=June 27, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Chart (2013–15) ! Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Billboard200|11|artist=Brett Eldredge}} |- {{album chart|BillboardCountry|2|artist=Brett Eldredge}} |} {{col-2}}
=== Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable" |- !Chart (2013) !Position |- | US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2013/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums: 2013 Year-End Charts|magazine=Billboard|access-date=January 15, 2015}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|62 |- !Chart (2014) !Position |- | US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2014/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums: 2014 Year-End Charts|magazine=Billboard|access-date=January 15, 2015}} </ref> | style="text-align:center;"|74 |- !Chart (2015) !Position |- | US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2015/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 2015|magazine=Billboard|access-date=July 27, 2020}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"|63 |} {{col-end}}
===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Single ! colspan="5"| Peak chart positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! width="45"| US Country ! width="45"| US Country Airplay ! width="45"| US ! width="45"| CAN Country<br /><ref>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=brett eldredge|chart=Canada Country}}|title=Brett Eldredge Album & Song Chart History – Canada Country|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 20, 2013}}</ref> ! width="45"| CAN |- | 2010 | align="left"| "Raymond" | 23 | — | — | — | — |- | 2012 | align="left"| "Don't Ya" | 5 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 51 |- | 2013 | align="left"| "Beat of the Music" | 6 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 58 |- | 2014 | align="left"| "Mean to Me" | 4 | 1 | 53 | 3 | 65 |- | colspan="7" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}
==Certifications== {{certification Table Top}} {{certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Brett Eldredge|relyear=2013|title=Bring You Back|award=Gold|type=album}} {{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}
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