{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Just Feels Good | type = studio | artist = Thompson Square | cover = t2 feels good.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2013|03|26}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Country | length = 44:56 | label = Stoney Creek | producer = New Voice Entertainment | prev_title = Thompson Square | prev_year = 2011 | next_title = Masterpiece | next_year = 2018 | misc = {{Singles | name = Just Feels Good | type = Studio | single1 = If I Didn't Have You | single1date = October 29, 2012 | single2 = Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About | single2date = June 10, 2013 | single3 = Testing the Water | single3date = April 21, 2014 | single4 = I Can't Outrun You | single4date = June 23, 2014 }} }}
'''''Just Feels Good''''' is the second studio album by American country music duo Thompson Square. It was released on March 26, 2013, via Stoney Creek Records.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thompson Square "Just Feels Good" Tracklist and Cover Art |url=http://www.roughstock.com/blog/thompson-square-just-feels-good-tracklist-and-cover-art |accessdate=January 22, 2013 |newspaper=Roughstock |date=January 21, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131132236/http://www.roughstock.com/blog/thompson-square-just-feels-good-tracklist-and-cover-art |archivedate=January 31, 2013 }}</ref> As with their first album, it was produced by New Voice Entertainment.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|title=Thompson Square's 'Just Feels Good' album due March 26|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/01/20/thompson-square-new-album-just-feels-good/1847473/|accessdate=January 22, 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=January 22, 2013}}</ref>
==Background== On October 29, 2012, "If I Didn't Have You," was released as the lead-off single from ''Just Feels Good''. For the chart dated May 11, 2013, it ascended to the top of the ''Billboard'' Country Airplay chart, becoming their second Number One hit. "Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About" was released as the album's second single on June 10, 2013. It became the duo's fourth Top Ten hit when it reached a peak of No. 4 on the Country Airplay chart in early 2014.
"Testing the Water" was released as the third single from the album in April 2014, although was pulled shortly after spending only a few weeks on the charts. "I Can't Outrun You," a song previously recorded by Trace Adkins on his 2008 album ''X'', was issued as the album's fourth single.
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Country Weekly'' | rev1Score = B+<ref name=CW>{{cite web|url=http://www.countryweekly.com/reviews/just-feels-good-thompson-square|title=''Just Feels Good by Thompson Square''|last=Ragusa|first=Tammy|date=March 26, 2013|work=Country Weekly|accessdate=March 26, 2013}}</ref> | rev2 = Got Country Online | rev2Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=GCO>{{cite web |url=http://www.gotcountryonline.com/2013/03/25/album-review-thompson-square-just-feels-good/|title=ALBUM REVIEW: Thompson Square - "Just Feels Good"|last=Block|first=Donna|date=March 25, 2013|publisher=Got Country Online|accessdate=March 26, 2013}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Plain Dealer'' | rev3Score = C<ref name=PD>{{cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/popmusic/index.ssf/2013/03/thompson_squares_just_feels_go.html|title=Thompson Square's 'Just Feels Good' delivers too much gloss, not enough grit (review)|last=Yarborough|first=Chuck|date=March 24, 2013|work=The Plain Dealer|accessdate=March 26, 2013}}</ref> | rev4 = Roughstock | rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RS>{{cite web|url=http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/album-review-thompson-square-just-feels-good/ |title=Album Review: Thompson Square - Just Feels Good |last=Bjorke |first=Matt |date=March 26, 2013 |publisher=Roughstock |accessdate=March 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528115407/http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/album-review-thompson-square-just-feels-good |archivedate=May 28, 2013 }}</ref> | rev5 = Taste of Country | rev5Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=TOC>{{cite web |url=http://tasteofcountry.com/thompson-square-just-feels-good/|title=Thompson Square, 'Just Feels Good' – Album Review|last=Dukes|first=Billy|date=March 26, 2013|publisher=Taste of Country|accessdate=March 26, 2013}}</ref> | rev6 = ''USA Today'' | rev6Score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name=USA>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/03/25/depeche-mode-one-republic-thompson-square/2018859/|title=Listen Up: Depeche Mode, One Republic, Thompson Square|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|date=March 25, 2013|work=USA Today|accessdate=March 26, 2013}}</ref> }}
Brian Mansfield of ''USA Today'' evoked how the "songs play like a rom-com with dual narrators. They've got all the elements — meet-cutes, separation, obstacles and a happy ending — plus a soundtrack that mixes '70s-rock guitar with mandolin and pedal steel."<ref name=USA/> Conversely, Chuck Yarborough of ''The Plain Dealer'' called it an "autobiographical album" that "is just too dang slick, and that love becomes cloying instead of sweet."<ref name=PD/> Tammy Ragusa of ''Country Weekly'' found that the album finds the duo "laughing in the face of fear" and in doing that have crafted a "palpable" work, which she suggest that the next album be called "''Just Feels Better''."<ref name=CW/> Taste of Country's Billy Dukes affirmed that the album "would benefit from a wider range of experiences and production approaches. It’s an album jammed full of happy love songs that, even with creative interpretation, begins to lose an edge."<ref name=TOC/> This is because that "As a collection of songs, however, Thompson Square simply rely too much on one dimension", and suggest that having a "single song about death, dogs, tractors … anything, really, would be a great way to break up the sweet monotony."<ref name=TOC/> However, Got Country Online's Donna Block vowed that the album "is a testament to the strength of their relationship."<ref name=GCO/> Roughstock's Matt Bjorke suggested that the duo are "ready to up the ante" because " Everything about ''Just Feels Good'' is better" that their debut effort, and he proclaimed that "more strong albums like ''Just Feels Good'' it's hard to see their run of hits ending anytime soon."<ref name=RS/>
==Commercial performance== The album debuted at number 13 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and number 4 on the ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart, with first week sales of 36,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-for-april-3-2013-blake-shelton-s-story-debuts-at-1-alan-jackson-memories-2 |title=Country Album Chart News for April 3, 2013: Blake Shelton's "Story" Debuts at #1; Alan Jackson "Memories" #2 | New Country Music, Listen to Songs & Video | Roughstock.com |accessdate=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314042107/http://www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-for-april-3-2013-blake-shelton-s-story-debuts-at-1-alan-jackson-memories-2 |archivedate=March 14, 2014 }}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | total_length = 44:56 | title1 = Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About | writer1 = Kiefer Thompson, Shawna Thompson, David Lee Murphy, Brett James | length1 = 2:58 | title2 = Here We Go Again | writer2 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, Vicky McGehee, David Fanning | length2 = 3:29 | title3 = You Don't Get Lucky | writer3 = Murphy, Bob DiPiero, Tom Shapiro | length3 = 3:50 | title4 = That's So Me and You | writer4 = K. Thompson, McGehee, Kyle Jacobs | length4 = 3:43 | title5 = I Can't Outrun You | writer5 = Jacobs, Joe Leathers, Ben Glover | length5 = 3:02 | title6 = Testing the Water | writer6 = Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, Hillary Lindsey | length6 = 3:12 | title7 = For the Life of Me | writer7 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, Murphy, James | length7 = 3:06 | title8 = If I Didn't Have You | writer8 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, Jason Sellers, Paul Jenkins | length8 = 3:22 | title9 = Here's to Being Here | writer9 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, Murphy, James | length9 = 3:55 | title10 = Just Feels Good | writer10 = Bobby Pinson, Brad Warren, Brett Warren | length10 = 3:16 | title11 = Maybe It's You | writer11 = Jacobs, McGehee, Kylie Sackley | length11 = 3:28 | title12 = Run | writer12 = Ross Copperman, Michael Davey | length12 = 3:29 | title13 = Home Is You | writer13 = Jon Nite, Jimmy Robbins | length13 = 4:06 }} {{track listing | headline = Walmart Exclusive Edition | total_length = 56:10 | title14 = Smile On My Mouth | writer14 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, Sellers, Jenkins | length14 = 3:44 | title15 = That's Why We Roll | writer15 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, McGehee, Jacobs | length15 = 3:24 | title16 = What Am I Gonna Do (Daddy's Song) | writer16 = K. Thompson, S. Thompson, McGehee, Jacobs | length16 = 4:06 }}
*"What Am I Gonna Do (Daddy's Song)" was written in memory of Shawna's late father. Shawna sang solo in this song and does not have Keifer singing lead or background.
==Personnel==
===Thompson Square=== *Keifer Thompson - vocals *Shawna Thompson - vocals
===Additional Musicians=== *Kurt Allison - electric guitar *Jake Clayton - cello, violin *David Fanning - programming *Tony Harrell - accordion, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, piano *Mike Johnson - steel guitar *Tully Kennedy - bass guitar *Rob McNelley - electric guitar *Rich Redmond - drums, percussion *Jeff Roach - Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, piano *Adam Shoenfeld - electric guitar *Ilya Toshinsky - banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin, resonator guitar
==Chart performance== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2013) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Billboard200|13|artist=Thompson Square|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 18, 2021}} |- {{album chart|BillboardCountry|4|artist=Thompson Square|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 18, 2021}} |- {{album chart|BillboardIndependent|1|artist=Thompson Square|rowheader=true|accessdate=October 18, 2021}} |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2013) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2013/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 2013|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=October 18, 2021}}</ref> | 42 |- ! scope="row" | US Independent Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2013/independent-albums|title=Independent Albums – Year-End 2013|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=October 18, 2021}}</ref> | 29 |} {{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=thompson square|chart=Canada Country}}|title=Thompson Square Album & Song Chart History - Canada Country|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|accessdate=November 20, 2013}}</ref> ! width="45"| CAN |- | 2012 | align="left"| "If I Didn't Have You" | 7 | 1 | 49 | 14 | 70 |- | 2013 | align="left"| "Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About" | 15 | 4 | 69 | 11 | 72 |- | rowspan="2"| 2014 | align="left"| "Testing the Water" | — | 55 | — | — | — |- | align="left"| "I Can't Outrun You" | — | 52 | — | — | — |- | colspan="7" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |- |}
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Category:2013 albums Category:Thompson Square albums Category:BBR Music Group albums Category:Albums produced by New Voice Entertainment