Rockin' in the Country

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Rockin' in the Country
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Studio album by Daryle Singletary
Released June 9, 2009 (2009-06-09)
Genre Country
Label E1 Music
Producer Greg Cole, Chuck Rhodes
Daryle Singletary chronology
Straight from the Heart
(2007) Straight from the Heart2007
Rockin' in the Country
(2009)
There's Still a Little Country Left
(2015)There's Still a Little Country Left2015
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Rockin' in the Country is the seventh studio album by American country music singer Daryle Singletary. It was released June 9, 2009 via E1 Music. The album includes the non-charting single "Love You with the Lights On", as well as two cover versions: "How Can I Believe in You", previously recorded by Vern Gosdin on his 1984 album There Is a Season, and "Take Me Home, Country Roads", originally recorded by John Denver.

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.

Daryle Singletary American singer

Daryle Bruce Singletary was an American country music singer. Between 1995 and 1998, he recorded for Giant Records, for which he released three studio albums: Daryle Singletary in 1995, All Because of You in 1996 and Ain't It the Truth in 1998. In the same timespan, Singletary entered the top 40 of the Hot Country Songs charts five times, reaching number two with "I Let Her Lie" and "Amen Kind of Love", and number four with "Too Much Fun".

Cover version later version of a song already established with a different earlier performer

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

Track listing

  1. "Rockin' in the Country" (Paul Overstreet, Sonny Tillis) – 3:47
  2. "Love You with the Lights On" (Christopher Dubois, David Cory Lee) – 3:51
  3. "That's Why God Made Me" (Harley Allen, Jimmy Melton) – 4:04
  4. "How Can I Believe in You (When You'll Be Leaving Me)" (Buddy Cannon, Vern Gosdin) – 3:21
  5. "Going Through Hell (With You Again)" (Don Poythress, Wynn Varble, Jimmy Wayne) – 3:17
  6. "Background Noise" (Marc Beeson, Jim Collins, Curtis Wright) – 3:46
  7. "If I Ever Get Her Back" (Billy Lawson, Billy Yates) – 3:01
  8. "Real Estate Hands" (Lawson, Terry Skinner) – 4:23
  9. "She's a Woman" (Lawson, Daryle Singletary) – 3:56
  10. "She Sure Looks Good in Black" (Lawson, Dale Dodson) – 5:41
  11. "They Know How to Grow 'em" (Lawson, Ed Hill) – 2:33
  12. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (John Denver, Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert) – 3:07

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