Red Dirt Road is the eighth studio album for country duo Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn was an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who were both vocalists and songwriters. They were paired by record producer Tim DuBois in 1990. Before the duo's foundation, both members of the duo were solo recording artists...

, released in 2003 on Arista Nashville

Arista Nashville

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. 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

Hot Country Songs

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 chart), "You Can't Take the Honky-Tonk out of the Girl" (#3) and "That's What She Gets for Lovin' Me" (#6).

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 through -- that 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 dreams -- it can."

Track listing

1. "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl
   You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl
   "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" is a song recorded by Brooks & Dunn. It is the second single released from their 2003 album Red Dirt Road. It reached #3 in early-2004.-Music video:...
   
   " (Bob DiPiero
   Bob DiPiero
   Bob DiPiero is an American country music songwriter. He has written 15. U.S. Number 1 hits and countless top 20 hits for the likes of Tim McGraw, The Oak Ridge Boys, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Shenandoah, Neal McCoy, Highway 101, Restless Heart, Ricochet, John Anderson, Montgomery...
   
   , Bart Allmand) – 3:41
2. "Caroline" (Ronnie Dunn
   Ronnie Dunn
   Ronnie Gene Dunn is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn. In 2011, Dunn began working as a solo artist following the breakup of Brooks & Dunn...
   
   , Charlie Crowe) – 3:49
3. "When We Were Kings" (Kix Brooks
   Kix Brooks
   Leon Eric "Kix" Brooks III , is an American country music artist, best known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn.-Early life:...
   
   , Gary Nicholson) – 4:12
4. "That's What She Gets for Loving Me
   That's What She Gets for Loving Me
   "That's What She Gets for Loving Me" is a song recorded by Brooks & Dunn. It is the third and final single from their 2003 album Red Dirt Road. It peaked at #6 in the United States.-Chart positions:...
   
   " (Dunn, Terry McBride
   Terry McBride (musician)
   Terry McBride is an American country music artist. Between 1989 and 1994, and again from 2000 to 2002, McBride was the lead vocalist and bass guitarist in the band McBride & the Ride, a country music group which recorded six studio albums and charted more than ten singles on the Billboard Hot...
   
   ) – 2:56
5. "Red Dirt Road
   Red Dirt Road (song)
   "Red Dirt Road" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music group Brooks & Dunn. It was released in April 2003 as the first single from the band's album Red Dirt Road. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and peaked at number 25 on the...
   
   " (Brooks, Dunn) – 4:20
6. "Feels Good Don't It" (Dunn, McBride) - 2:44
7. "I Used to Know This Song by Heart" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:27
8. "Believer" (Dunn, Craig Wiseman
   Craig Wiseman
   Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and several other acts....
   
   ) – 3:46
9. "Memory Town" (Brooks, Rafe VanHoy) – 4:04
10. "She Was Born to Run" (Dunn, McBride, Kenny Beard) – 3:41
11. "Til My Dyin' Day" (Brooks, Paul Nelson) – 3:03
12. "My Baby's Everything I Love" (Brooks, Dunn, Don Cook
    Don Cook
    Don Kirby Cook is an American record producer and songwriter whose work is mainly in the field of country music. Artists who recorded Cook's material include Barbara Mandrell, John Conlee, Mark Collie, Wade Hayes and Brooks & Dunn...
    
    ) – 3:39
13. "Good Day to Be Me" (Brooks, DiPiero) – 3:39
14. "Good Cowboy" (Nile Rodgers, Jimmy Vaughan) - 4:23
15. "Holy War" (Dunn) – 5:09
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Brooks & Dunn

• Kix Brooks – lead vocals, background vocals
• Ronnie Dunn – lead vocals, background vocals, tambourine
  Tambourine
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Additional musicians

Horns

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 performed by Jeff Coffin, Jim Horn

Jim Horn

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, Samuel Levine, and Steve Patrick, and arranged by Jim Horn.

Album

Chart (2003)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
U.S. Billboard 200	4

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
2003	"Red Dirt Road"	1	25
	"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"	3	39
2004	"That's What She Gets for Loving Me"	6	53