Friday Night in Dixie

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Friday NIght in Dixie
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ReleasedMarch 26, 2002 (2002-03-26)
Recorded2001
Genre Country
Label Koch
Producer Rhett Akins, Charlie Daniels, Pat Hutchinson, Kenny Lamb
Rhett Akins chronology
What Livin's All About
(1998)
Friday NIght in Dixie
(2002)
People Like Me
(2007)
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Friday Night in Dixie is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Rhett Akins. It was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment/Koch Records. The album produced two singles in "Highway Sunrise" and "In Your Love", which peaked at #55 and #57 respectively on the Billboard country singles charts. Also included is an acoustic rendition of Akins' 1995 single "That Ain't My Truck". The title track and "Must Be Livin' Right" were both re-recorded for his 2007 self-released album "People Like Me."

Country music, also known as country and western, and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues.

Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for that label, followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment. Overall, Akins's albums have accounted for fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, including the number one "Don't Get Me Started" from 1996.

<i>Billboard</i> (magazine) American music magazine

Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style, and is also known for its music charts, including the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular songs and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Highway Sunrise" (Kenny Lamb, Jeff Stevens) – 3:57
  2. "That Girl" (Rhett Akins, Kent Agee, Burton Collins) – 3:17
  3. "She Was" (Akins, Lamb) – 3:51
  4. "In Your Love" (Lamb, Marv Green, Anthony Little) – 4:00
  5. "You Rock Me" (Akins, Ben Hayslip, Randy Albright) – 3:03
  6. "Friday Night in Dixie" (Akins, Charlie Daniels) – 3:27
  7. "White Lies and Blue Eyes" (Akins, Terry Clayton) – 3:56
  8. "Trouble With a Woman" (David Lee Murphy, Kim Tribble) – 3:31
  9. "Livin' Not Lovin' You" (Akins, Hayslip, Albright) – 4:28
  10. "Right Back Atcha" (Akins, Kendall Marvel, Max T. Barnes) – 3:31
  11. "I Wonder What You're Doin' Tonight" (Akins, Brett Beavers, Billy Burnette) – 4:02
  12. "Must Be Livin' Right" (Akins, Hayslip, Matt Hendrix) – 3:58
  13. "Where the Blacktop Ends" (Akins, Neil Thrasher) – 3:09
  14. "That Ain't My Truck (Back Porch Acoustic Version)" (Akins, Tom Shapiro, Chris Waters) – 3:57

Personnel

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Acoustic guitar type of guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar). The sound waves from the strings of an acoustic guitar resonate through the guitar's body, creating sound. This typically involves the use of a sound board and a sound box to strengthen the vibrations of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4.

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Chart performance

Chart (2002)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums65

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