Dirt Road Driveway

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Dirt Road Driveway
Dirt road driveway.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)
Genre Country
Label Pioneer Music/Thirty Tigers
Producer Granger Smith
Granger Smith chronology
Poets & Prisoners
(2011)
Dirt Road Driveway
(2013)
Remington
(2016)

Dirt Road Driveway is the seventh studio album from American country music artist Granger Smith. Released on 16 April 2013, the work was published via Pioneer Music, with distribution from Thirty Tigers. [1]

Contents

Content

Five singles were released from the album: "We Do It in a Field", [2] "Silverado Bench Seat", [3] "Miles and Mud Tires", [4] "If Money Didn't Matter", [5] and "Bury Me in Blue Jeans". [6]

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic says that "Smith's appeal is how he seems like the guy next door but it's also his Achilles heel — he seems like any old good old boy who might cross your way, which is reason enough to like him, but there's no hook to make you remember him." [7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Granger Smith, except where noted. [8]

  1. "We Do It in a Field" - 3:30
  2. "If Money Didn't Matter" - 3:50
  3. "Stick Around" (David Ramirez) - 3:06
  4. "19 Forever" - 3:23
  5. "I Am the Midnight" - 3:57
  6. "Miles and Mud Tires" - 2:48
  7. "Come" - 3:22
  8. "Silverado Bench Seat" - 2:55
  9. "Easy" - 3:36
  10. "Bury Me in Blue Jeans" (Granger Smith, Kevin Graham) - 3:41
  11. "Country Boy Love" - 3:32
    • featuring Earl Dibbles Jr.
  12. "The Country Boy Song" (Granger Smith, Tylerr Smith, Matt Caldwell, Chris Lee) - 3:26
    • featuring Earl Dibbles Jr.

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [8]

Musicians
Technical

Chart history

Chart (2013)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [9] 48
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [10] 15
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [11] 11

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References

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