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{{Infobox album
| name       = My Kind of Country
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Reba McEntire]]
| cover      = RebaMcEntireMyKindofCountry.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = October 15, 1984
| recorded   = July 1984
| venue      =
| studio     = The Mill (Nashville, TN).
| genre      = [[country music|Country]]
| length     = 28:14
| label      = [[MCA Nashville|MCA]]
| producer   = [[Harold Shedd]]
| prev_title = [[Just a Little Love]]
| prev_year  = 1984
| next_title = [[The Best of Reba McEntire]]
| next_year  = 1985
| misc = {{singles
| name = My Kind of Country
| type = studio
| single1 = [[How Blue]]
| single1date = September 1984
| single2 = [[Somebody Should Leave]]
| single2date = January 1985
}}
}}
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/my-kind-of-country-mw0000197885 |title=My Kind of Country - Reba McEntire |last=Ruhlmann |first=William |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=February 3, 2018}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
|rev2score = B+<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00chri |url-access=registration |title=Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s |last=Christgau |first=Robert |date=1990 |publisher=Pantheon Books |isbn=9780679730156 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00chri/page/265 265] |language=en}}</ref>
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'''''My Kind of Country''''' is the eighth studio album by American [[country music]] singer [[Reba McEntire]], released October 15, 1984. It was her second studio album for [[MCA Records]]. ''My Kind of Country'' peaked at No. 13 on [[Billboard Music Charts|Billboard]]'s (North America) Country Music Albums chart. Two tracks from the album rose to No. 1 on the Country Singles chart: "[[How Blue]]" and "[[Somebody Should Leave]]".
The track "It's Not Over (If I'm Not over You)" was first recorded by [[Vern Gosdin]] and released in 1982, and later recorded by the singer [[Mark Chesnutt]] on his 1992 album ''[[Longnecks & Short Stories]]'', with backing vocals from [[Alison Krauss]] and [[Vince Gill]]. It reappeared on his 1997 album ''[[Thank God for Believers]]'', from which it was released as a single in 1998.
==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| title1          = [[How Blue]]
| writer1         = John Moffat
| length1         = 2:42
| title2          = That's What He Said
| writer2         = Rick Carnes, Janis Carnes
| length2         = 2:30
| title3          = I Want to Hear It from You
| writer3         = [[Fred Carter Jr.]]
| length3         = 2:21
| title4          = [[It's Not Over (Mark Chesnutt song)|It's Not Over (If I'm Not Over You)]]
| writer4         = Larry Kingston, [[Mark Wright (record producer)|Mark Wright]]
| length4         = 3:10
| title5          = [[Somebody Should Leave]]
| writer5         = [[Harlan Howard]], Chick Rains
| length5         = 3:34
| title6          = Everything but My Heart
| writer6         = [[Graham Lyle]], [[Troy Seals]]
| length6         = 3:10
| title7          = Don't You Believe Him
| writer7         = [[Nat Stuckey]]
| length7         = 2:19
| title8          = Before I Met You
| writer8         = J. William Denny, Joe "Cannonball" Lewis, Chuck Seitz
| length8         = 2:29
| title9          = He's Only Everything
| writer9         = Billy Deaton, [[Faron Young]]
| length9         = 3:19
| title10         = [[You've Got Me (Right Where You Want Me)]]
| writer10        = [[George Richey]], [[Connie Smith]]
| length10        = 2:41
}}
== Personnel ==
* Reba McEntire – lead and backing vocals
* [[David Briggs (American musician)|David Briggs]] – keyboards
* Mitch Humphries – keyboards
* Kenny Bell – acoustic guitar
* [[Jimmy Capps (musician)|Jimmy Capps]] – acoustic guitar
* [[Ray Edenton]] – acoustic guitar
* [[Bobby Thompson (musician)|Bobby Thompson]] – acoustic guitar
* Greg Galbraith – electric guitar
* [[Brent Rowan]] – electric guitar
* [[Paul Worley]] – electric guitar
* [[Jerry Douglas]] – [[Dobro]]
* Sonny Garrish – [[steel guitar]]
* Doyle Grisham – steel guitar
* [[Johnny Gimble]] – fiddle
* [[Mark O'Connor]] – fiddle
* [[Joe Osborn]] – bass guitar
* Larry Paxton – bass guitar
* Bob Wray – bass guitar
* [[Eddie Bayers]] – drums
* Jerry Kroon – drums
* [[Craig Bickhardt]] – backing vocals
* [[Buddy Cannon]] – backing vocals
* [[Ted Hewitt]] – backing vocals
* [[Wendy Waldman (songwriter)|Wendy Waldman]] – backing vocals
== Production ==
* Harold Shedd – producer
* Jim Cotton – first engineer, overdub recording
* Bob Bullock – second engineer, overdub recording
* George W. Clinton – second engineer, overdub recording
* Paul Goldberg – second engineer, overdub recording
* Tim Kish – second engineer, overdub recording
* Joe Scaife – second engineer, overdub recording
* Ron Treat – mixing, overdub recording
* Glenn Meadows – mastering
* Simon Levy – art direction, design
* Alan Messer – photography
'''Studios'''
* Recorded at The Music Mill (Nashville, Tennessee).
* Mixed and Overdubbed at GroundStar Laboratories (Nashville, Tennessee).
* Mastered at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee).
== Charts ==
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{{col-2}}
=== Weekly charts ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1984–1985)
! scope="col"| Peak<br /> position
|-
{{album chart|BillboardCountry|13|artist=Reba McEntire|rowheader=true|access-date=June 9, 2021}}
|}
{{col-2}}
=== Year-end charts ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1985)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1985/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1985|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 9, 2021}}</ref>
| 33
|}
{{col-end}}
=== Singles ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Single
! colspan="2"| Peak positions
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! width="50"| [[Hot Country Songs|US Country]]<ref name="billboard">{{cite web|title=Reba McEntire - Chart history {{!}} Billboard|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/364742/reba+mcentire/chart?f=357|website=www.billboard.com}}</ref>
! width="50"| [[RPM (magazine)|CAN Country]]<ref name="canada">{{cite web|title=Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=gmrhouli7kvfvaeu848ka389j0&q1=Reba+McEntire&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|website=www.collectionscanada.gc.ca|access-date=November 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107155011/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=gmrhouli7kvfvaeu848ka389j0&q1=Reba+McEntire&q2=Country+Singles&interval=20|archive-date=7 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| 1984
| align="left"| "How Blue"
| 1
| 6
|-
| 1985
| align="left"| "Somebody Should Leave"
| 1
| 8
|}
== Certifications ==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=My Kind of Country|artist=Reba Mc Entire|type=album|award=Gold}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes}}
== References ==
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* {{cite AV media notes |title=My Kind of Country |others=Reba McEntire |year=1985 |type=CD |publisher=MCA Records |id=MCAD-31108}}
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