Red Dirt Road

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Red Dirt Road
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 15, 2003
Genre Country rock [1]
Length56:59
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)
Singles from Red Dirt Road
  1. "Red Dirt Road"
    Released: April 21, 2003
  2. "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"
    Released: September 15, 2003
  3. "That's What She Gets for Loving Me"
    Released: February 9, 2004
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Red Dirt Road is the eighth studio album by American country music 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). It is considered a concept album. [1]

Contents

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 throughthat 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 dreamsit can." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" Bob DiPiero, Bart Allmand3:41
2."Caroline" Ronnie Dunn, Charlie Crowe3:49
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, Dunn4:20
6."Feels Good Don't It"Dunn, McBride2:44
7."I Used to Know This Song by Heart"Jerry Lynn Williams4:27
8."Believer"Dunn, Craig Wiseman 3:46
9."Memory Town"Brooks, Rafe Van Hoy4:04
10."She Was Born to Run"Dunn, McBride, Kenny Beard 3:41
11."Til My Dyin' Day"Brooks, Paul Nelson3:03
12."My Baby's Everything I Love"Brooks, Dunn, Don Cook 3:39
13."Good Day to Be Me"Brooks, DiPiero3:39
14."Good Cowboy"Nile Rodgers, Jimmie Vaughan4:23
15."Holy War"Dunn5:09
16."hidden track"  

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

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [11] Gold50,000^
United States (RIAA) [12] Platinum1,000,000^
United States (RIAA) [13]
Video
Platinum100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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