Songs from the Grass String Ranch

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Songs from the Grass String Ranch
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 8, 2000
Genre Country rock, Southern rock
Length45:56
Label Audium Entertainment/Koch Records
Producer The Kentucky Headhunters [1]
The Kentucky Headhunters chronology
Stompin' Grounds
(1997)
Songs from the Grass String Ranch
(2000)
Soul
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Entertainment Weekly B− [4]
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Songs from the Grass String Ranch is the fifth studio album by the American country rock band the Kentucky Headhunters. [6] It was released by Audium Entertainment in 2000. [7] The album includes singles "Too Much to Lose", "Louisianna CoCo" and "Love That Woman." Although "Too Much to Lose" reached number 66 on the country charts, the other two singles failed to chart. [8]

Contents

Critical reception

Country Standard Time wrote that "otherwise crisp tunes 'Country Life' and 'Jessico' suffer from a stilted rock sound that doesn't quite fit Kentucky's motley crew." [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by The Kentucky Headhunters; [1] "Too Much to Lose", "Dry-Land Fish", "The Dreamin' Kind", and "Rock On" co-written by Verlon Dale Grissom

No.TitleLength
1."Grass String Ranch"4:16
2."Back to the Sun"5:02
3."Jessico"3:22
4."Once in a While"4:23
5."Love That Woman"3:48
6."Too Much to Lose"4:40
7."Louisianna CoCo"3:58
8."Country Life"3:37
9."Dry-Land Fish"5:29
10."The Dreamin' Kind"4:30
11."I Wish I Knew"4:57
12."Rock On"5:07

Personnel

From Songs from the Grass String Ranch liner notes. [1]

The Kentucky Headhunters
Additional musicians
Technical

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