Lucky Man (Montgomery Gentry song)

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"Lucky Man"
Single by Montgomery Gentry
from the album Some People Change
ReleasedJanuary 29, 2007
Recorded2006
Genre Country
Length3:17
Label Columbia Nashville
Songwriter(s) David Cory Lee
Dave Turnbull
Producer(s) Rivers Rutherford
Mark Wright
Montgomery Gentry singles chronology
"Some People Change"
(2006)
"Lucky Man"
(2007)
"What Do Ya Think About That"
(2007)

"Lucky Man" is a song written by David Cory Lee and Dave Turnbull and recorded by American country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It was released in January 2007 as the second single from the duo's 2006 album Some People Change . The song became their third number one single on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and stayed there for two weeks.

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The song received a 2008 nomination for Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, the duo's first nomination. [1]

Content

The song opens with the narrator listing various small things that annoy him, such as his job and the weather; however, he then reminds himself, "I know I'm a lucky man / God's given me a pretty fair hand", and turns to recounting all of the luxuries in his life, from his family to his health to his truck to his new fishing rod.

The second line of the song’s first verse, "And last Sunday, when my Bengals lost / Lord, it put me in a bad mood" was edited for different markets; 81 additional team names from the MLB, NHL, NBA, NFL, and NCAA (in place of the Cincinnati Bengals) in these different edits, depending on the market.

20 Years of Hits Version

In November 2018, Montgomery Gentry released a new rendition of the song, featuring fellow American country artist Darius Rucker. The new rendition is part of a 20th anniversary album, Montgomery Gentry: 20 Years of Hits. [2]

Chart positions

Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 65
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [5] 10
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [6] 88

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 15

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