Steers & Stripes

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Steers & Stripes
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 17, 2001
Genre
Length52:12
Label Arista Nashville
Producer Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn
Mark Wright
Brooks & Dunn chronology
Tight Rope
(1999)
Steers & Stripes
(2001)
It Won't Be Christmas Without You
(2002)
Singles from Steers & Stripes
  1. "Ain't Nothing 'bout You"
    Released: February 12, 2001
  2. "Only in America"
    Released: June 18, 2001
  3. "The Long Goodbye"
    Released: October 22, 2001
  4. "My Heart Is Lost to You"
    Released: April 8, 2002
  5. "Every River"
    Released: September 2, 2002
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Rolling Stone (favorable) [2]

Steers & Stripes is the seventh studio album by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in April 2001 via Arista Nashville. The album produced five singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, of which the first three reached number one. "Ain't Nothing 'bout You", the first single, became the duo's biggest hit, not only spending six weeks at the top of the country chart, but also reaching No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also declared by Billboard as the number-one country song of 2001. Following it were "Only in America" and "The Long Goodbye" (the latter of which was later a pop hit for Ronan Keating, co-written with Paul Brady). The last two singles were the No. 5 "My Heart Is Lost to You" and the No. 12 "Every River".

Contents

The track "The Last Thing I Do" was also recorded by James Otto for his debut album Days of Our Lives , and by Montgomery Gentry for their 2004 album You Do Your Thing (as "If It's the Last Thing I Do").

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Only in America" Kix Brooks, Don Cook, Ronnie Rogers 4:29
2."The Last Thing I Do" David Lee Murphy, Kim Tribble 4:02
3."The Long Goodbye" Paul Brady, Ronan Keating 3:51
4."Go West"Brooks, Bob DiPiero 3:56
5."My Heart Is Lost to You" Brett Beavers, Connie Harrington2:59
6."Good Girls Go to Heaven" Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride, Shawn Camp 2:50
7."When She's Gone, She's Gone" Tom Douglas, Wayland Holyfield 4:25
8."Ain't Nothing 'bout You" Tom Shapiro, Rivers Rutherford 3:22
9."Unloved"Steve Diamond, Keith Follesé 4:30
10."Deny, Deny, Deny"Brooks, DiPiero3:20
11."Lucky Me, Lonely You"Dunn, McBride, Camp3:24
12."I Fall"Brooks, Don Cook 3:15
13."Every River" Kim Richey, Angelo Petraglia, Tom Littlefield3:29
14."See Jane Dance"Charlie Crowe4:12

Chart performance

Certifications

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

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Strings by The Nashville String Machine arranged and conducted by David Campbell.

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