Angry All the Time - Wikipedia Angry All the Time `` Angry All the Time '' Single by Tim McGraw from the album Set This Circus Down Released July 23, 2001 Genre Country Length 4 : 30 Label Curb Songwriter ( s ) Bruce Robison Producer ( s ) Byron Gallimore Tim McGraw James Stroud Tim McGraw singles chronology `` Grown Men Do n't Cry '' ( 2001 ) `` Angry All the Time '' ( 2001 ) `` Bring On the Rain '' ( 2001 ) `` Grown Men Do n't Cry '' ( 2001 ) `` Angry All the Time '' ( 2001 ) `` Bring On the Rain '' ( 2001 ) `` Angry All the Time '' is a song written by Bruce Robison and first recorded on his 1998 album Wrapped. It was later covered by Tim McGraw with guest vocals from his wife Faith Hill. Released in July 2001, McGraw 's version was the second single from his Set This Circus Down album. The song reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks ( now Hot Country Songs ) chart. Contents 1 Content 2 Critical reception 3 Chart performance 3.1 Year - end charts 4 References Content The song is a ballad in which the narrator talks about the relationship unraveling. Critical reception Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably calling it one of the best ballads of the year. She also says that McGraw 's voice `` oozes hurt and disillusionment. '' Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A - grade, saying that the song beings `` with the sound of hushed acoustic strumming, the arrangement picks up force as the song progresses, but the focus of attention remains the story of a marriage gradually unraveling. He goes on to say that the song `` all comes through in McGraw 's evocative performance, showcasing the layers of subtlety his voice had picked up in the years since his ' Indian Outlaw ' days, while wife Faith Hill 's plaintive background vocals add a further layer of pathos. '' Chart performance `` Angry All the Time '' debuted at # 48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for the week of July 28, 2001. Chart ( 2001 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) US Billboard Hot 100 38 Year - end charts Chart ( 2001 ) Position US Country Songs ( Billboard ) 27 References Jump up ^ Billboard, August 4, 2001 Jump up ^ CountryUniverse.net Song review Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw Chart History ( Hot Country Songs ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ `` Tim McGraw Chart History ( Hot 100 ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ `` Best of 2001 : Country Songs ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2001. Retrieved August 14, 2012. Tim McGraw singles Discography Not a Moment Too Soon `` Indian Outlaw '' `` Do n't Take the Girl '' `` Down on the Farm '' `` Not a Moment Too Soon '' `` Refried Dreams '' All I Want `` I Like It, I Love It '' `` Ca n't Be Really Gone '' `` All I Want Is a Life '' `` She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart '' `` Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It '' Everywhere `` It 's Your Love '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Everywhere '' `` Just to See You Smile '' `` One of These Days '' `` Where the Green Grass Grows '' `` For a Little While '' A Place in the Sun `` Please Remember Me '' `` Something Like That '' `` My Best Friend '' `` Some Things Never Change '' `` My Next Thirty Years '' Set This Circus Down `` Grown Men Do n't Cry '' `` Angry All the Time '' `` The Cowboy in Me '' `` Unbroken '' Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors `` Red Rag Top '' `` Tiny Dancer '' `` She 's My Kind of Rain '' `` Real Good Man '' `` Watch the Wind Blow By '' Live Like You Were Dying `` Live Like You Were Dying '' `` Back When '' `` Drugs or Jesus '' `` Do You Want Fries with That '' `` My Old Friend '' Reflected : Greatest Hits Vol. 2 `` When the Stars Go Blue '' `` My Little Girl '' Let It Go `` Last Dollar ( Fly Away ) '' `` I Need You '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` If You 're Reading This '' `` Suspicions '' `` Kristofferson '' `` Let It Go '' `` Nothin ' to Die For '' Southern Voice `` It 's a Business Doing Pleasure with You '' `` Southern Voice '' `` Still '' Number One Hits `` Felt Good on My Lips '' Country Strong `` Me and Tennessee '' ( with Gwyneth Paltrow ) Emotional Traffic `` Better Than I Used to Be '' Two Lanes of Freedom `` Truck Yeah '' `` One of Those Nights '' `` Highway Do n't Care '' ( with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban ) `` Southern Girl '' Sundown Heaven Town `` Lookin ' for That Girl '' `` Meanwhile Back at Mama 's '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Shotgun Rider '' `` Diamond Rings and Old Barstools '' ( with Catherine Dunn ) Damn Country Music `` Top of the World '' `` Humble and Kind '' `` How I 'll Always Be '' The Rest of Our Life ( with Faith Hill ) `` Speak to a Girl '' `` The Rest of Our Life '' Guest singles `` Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Let 's Make Love '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Bring On the Rain '' ( with Jo Dee Messina ) `` Over and Over '' ( with Nelly ) `` Like We Never Loved at All '' ( with Faith Hill ) `` Find Out Who Your Friends Are '' ( with Tracy Lawrence and Kenny Chesney ) `` Nine Lives '' ( with Def Leppard ) `` Feel Like a Rock Star '' ( with Kenny Chesney ) `` Lovin ' Lately '' ( with Big & Rich ) `` May We All '' ( with Florida Georgia Line ) Other songs `` City Lights '' `` The Ride '' `` California '' This 2000s country song - related article is a stub. 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Question: who wrote the song angry all the time
Answer: Bruce Robison