Red Dirt Road

This article is about the Brooks&Dunn 2003 album. For other uses, see Red Road.
Red Dirt Road
Studio album by Brooks & Dunn
Released July 15, 2003
Genre Country
Length 56:59
Label Arista Nashville
Producer Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn
Mark Wright
Brooks & Dunn chronology
It Won't Be Christmas Without You
(2002)		 Red Dirt Road
(2003)		 The Greatest Hits Collection II
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Red Dirt Road is the eighth studio album for country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2003 on Arista Nashville. Certified platinum for sales of one million copies in the U.S., the album produced three top ten singles: "Red Dirt Road" (#1 on the Hot Country Songs chart), "You Can't Take the Honky-Tonk out of the Girl" (#3) and "That's What She Gets for Lovin' Me" (#6).

Background

"I knew we were going to call this album Red Dirt Road before the first song was even picked," said Ronnie Dunn. "I wanted that thread, that growing up in rural America and all the universal touchstones we all go through—that first beer, wrecking my first car two weeks after I got it, being taken to a revival by my cousins who lived a few miles farther down that road. That road ran through every major event in my young life… and who would think a kid growing up like that, going to Bible college, would end up here? But that's the power of life and roots and dreams—it can."[3]

Track listing

  1. "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" (Bob DiPiero, Bart Allmand) – 3:41
  2. "Caroline" (Ronnie Dunn, Charlie Crowe) – 3:49
  3. "When We Were Kings" (Kix Brooks, Gary Nicholson) – 4:12
  4. "That's What She Gets for Loving Me" (Dunn, Terry McBride) – 2:56
  5. "Red Dirt Road" (Brooks, Dunn) – 4:20
  6. "Feels Good Don't It" (Dunn, McBride) - 2:44
  7. "I Used to Know This Song by Heart" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:27
  8. "Believer" (Dunn, Craig Wiseman) – 3:46
  9. "Memory Town" (Brooks, Rafe VanHoy) – 4:04
  10. "She Was Born to Run" (Dunn, McBride, Kenny Beard) – 3:41
  11. "Til My Dyin' Day" (Brooks, Paul Nelson) – 3:03
  12. "My Baby's Everything I Love" (Brooks, Dunn, Don Cook) – 3:39
  13. "Good Day to Be Me" (Brooks, DiPiero) – 3:39
  14. "Good Cowboy" (Nile Rodgers, Jimmie Vaughan) - 4:23
  15. "Holy War" (Dunn) – 5:09

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

Brooks & Dunn

Additional musicians

Horns performed by Jeff Coffin, Jim Horn, Samuel Levine, and Steve Patrick, and arranged by Jim Horn.

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2003) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 4

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country US
2003 "Red Dirt Road" 1 25
"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" 3 39
2004 "That's What She Gets for Loving Me" 6 53
Preceded by
Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1
by Trace Adkins		 Top Country Albums number-one album
August 2–8, 2003 		Succeeded by
Mud on the Tires
by Brad Paisley

References

  1. ↑ Red Dirt Road at AllMusic
  2. ↑ link
  3. ↑ Anon (2003). "Biography: Brooks & Dunn" at the Wayback Machine (archived July 27, 2003) Arista Nashville.com. Retrieved September 18, 2009
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