title: The Love Songs (Clint Black album)
text: # The Love Songs (Clint Black album)
  
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  The Love Songs is a 2007 (see 2007 in music) album by country singer Clint Black. It consists of newly recorded versions of many of his love songs along with a cover version of Jim Croce's "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song".
  
  According to Black, many of the songs remain true to the original version while a few get a slight update. "I wanted to do a record that's not just a reissue of hits", Black said. "Sometimes when I go back and revisit my older recordings, I find little things that, in hindsight, I feel I could improve on just a bit—some new twist that might make it just a little bit better. It might be a slight change in the arrangement, or the way vocals are layered. And there were also times when I listened to a particular recording and felt there really wasn't a change that would make it better."
  
  The album cover was designed by Peter Max and depicts Black with wife Lisa Hartman Black.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Band
  
  * Bryan Austin — acoustic guitar, background vocals
  * Clint Black — acoustic guitar, harmonica, percussion, electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals, bass harmonica
  * Dane Bryant — piano, keyboards, background vocals
  * Lenny Castro — percussion
  * Perry Coleman — background vocals
  * Steve Dorff — conductor, orchestral arrangements
  * Stuart Duncan — fiddle, mandolin
  * Paul Franklin — steel guitar
  * Dick Gay — drums
  * Carl Gorodetzky — concert master
  * Lisa Hartman Black — duet vocals on "When I Said I Do" and "Easy for Me to Say"
  * Wes Hightower — background vocals
  * Carolyn Dawn Johnson — duet vocals on "Our Kind of Love"
  * Abraham Laboriel — bass guitar
  * Nashville String Machine — orchestra
  * Hayden Nicholas — electric guitar
  * Dean Parks — acoustic guitar
  * Jeff Peterson — steel guitar
  * John "J.R." Robinson — drums
  * Matt Rollings — grand piano
  * Steve Wariner — electric guitar, background vocals
  * Jake Willemain — bass guitar
  * Martin Young — acoustic guitar
  
  Production
  
  * Zack Berry — production coordinator, assistant engineer
  * Clint Black — producer
  * Zeke Clark — assistant engineer
  * Ricky Cobble — engineer, mixing
  * Steve Lockhart — technical support
  * Ray Rogers — engineering support
  * Hank Williams — mastering
  
  ## Chart positions
  
  | Chart (2007) | Peak position |
  | - | - |
  | US Top Country Albums | 37 |
  | US Top Independent Albums | 24 |
  