''Down to My Last Bad Habit'' is the fourteenth studio album by American

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singer

Vince Gill Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He played in a number of local bluegrass music, bluegrass bands in the 1970s, and from 1978 to 1982, he achieved his first mainstream attention after ta ...

. The album was released on February 12, 2016, by

MCA Nashville Music Corporation of America, formerly known as Universal Music Group Nashville, is Universal Music Group's country music subsidiary. It was officially opened in 1945 as MCA Nashville and Mercury Nashville which opened on New Year's Day 1950 a ...

Critical reception

''Down to My Last Bad Habit'' received generally positive reviews from

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, which assigns a

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rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an

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score of 80 based on 5 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, with 17,000 copies sold in its first week. It is his 15th top 10 entry on the chart. It sold a further 7,500 copies in its second week. The album has sold 81,600 copies in the US as of March 2017.

Track listing

Personnel

* Vince Gill – vocals, backing vocals (1, 4, 7, 8, 12), electric guitar, acoustic guitar (1-4, 6-12), harmony vocals (2),

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(11) * Pete Wasner –

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Reese Wynans Reese Wynans (born November 28, 1947) is an American Keyboardist, keyboard player, who has done session work and has been a member of Double Trouble (band), Double Trouble and progressive rock band Captain Beyond. In 2015, he was inducted into t ...

–

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(1, 4, 5) * Tony Harrell – Wurlitzer electric piano (2, 3, 8, 11), Hammond B3 organ (2, 3, 8-11),

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(3), acoustic piano (4-7, 10, 12) * Charlie Judge – keyboards (3, 6, 9), synthesizers (6, 9, 10), Hammond B3 organ (12) *

Tom Bukovac Tom Bukovac (born December 20, 1968) is an American session guitarist and producer. He is also a popular YouTube personality with over 100,000 subscribers. He is a five-time winner of Music Row's Top Ten Album All-Stars award in the guitar categ ...

– electric guitar (1-5, 7, 8, 10-12), acoustic guitar (6, 9) *

Dean Parks Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los A ...

– electric guitar (1, 2, 5, 6, 8-12) *

Dann Huff Dann Lee Huff (born November 15, 1960) is an American record producer, studio guitarist, and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the ''Musician of the Year'' award in 2001, 2004 ...

– electric guitar (3, 6, 9) * Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar (7) * Paul Franklin –

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(2-4, 6-11) *

Willie Weeks Willie Weeks (born August 5, 1947) is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also ga ...

– bass (1-6, 8-12) * Michael Rhodes – bass (7) * Steve Jordan – drums (1-6, 8-12), percussion (8, 12) *

Fred Eltringham The Wallflowers are an American rock solo project of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jakob Dylan. The Wallflowers were originally a roots rock band formed in Los Angeles by Dylan and guitarist Tobi Miller. It has undergone ...

– drums (7), percussion (7, 11) *

Eric Darken Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer. Biography Drawing inspiration from his grandfather, a band leader. Darken began playing drums at age 12, and played timpani and mallets in high school. Darken attended ...

– percussion (1-4, 6, 7, 9, 10) * Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson –

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Chris Botti Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions ...

– trumpet (8) * Corrina Gill – backing vocals (1), harmony vocals (8) * Jenny Van Valkenburg – harmony vocals (1) *

Ellie Holcomb Elizabeth Asher HolcombASCAP IPI #584603533 (née Bannister; born September 12, 1982) is an American CCM-folk singer-songwriter and she grew up in Nashville. Her father is noted music producer Brown Bannister, and she was a member of Drew Hol ...

– harmony vocals (3) *

Bekka Bramlett Rebekka Ruth Lazone Bramlett (born April 19, 1968) is an American singer. She is the daughter of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, of the music duo Delaney & Bonnie. Currently, she is a session singer, songwriter, and backing vocalist, working with ...

– harmony vocals (5) * Kim Keyes – harmony vocals (6) *

Little Big Town Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group from Homewood, Alabama. Founded in 1998, the group has had the same four members since its founding: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman (née Roads), Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook. Fa ...

(Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook) – backing vocals (9) * Cam (Camaron Ochs) – backing vocals (10) * Charlie Worsham – harmony vocals (11) *

Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, fiddler and music producer. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of eight and recording for the first time at ...

– harmony vocals (12)

Production

* Vince Gill – producer * Justin Niebank – producer, recording, mixing * Drew Bollman – recording * Matt Rausch – recording * Brian David Willis – digital editing * Andrew Mendelson – mastering at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee) * Karen Naff – art direction * Craig Allen – design * Jim White – photography * The Fitzgerald Hartley Co. – management

Critical reception

Commercial performance

Track listing

Personnel

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References