Red Dirt Road
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", "You Can't Take the Honky-Tonk out of the Girl" and "That's What She Gets for Lovin' Me". It is considered a concept album showcasing the wide variety of musical styles that have influenced Brooks & Dunn.
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
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.Brooks & Dunn
- Kix Brooks – lead vocals, background vocals
- Ronnie Dunn – lead vocals, background vocals, tambourine
Additional musicians
- Robert Bailey – background vocals
- Bekka Bramlett – background vocals
- Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
- Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
- Perry Coleman – background vocals
- J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Charlie Crowe – electric guitar
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Jerry Douglas – Dobro
- Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar, steel guitar, Dobro
- Shannon Forrest – drums
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar
- Kenny Greenberg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Vicki Hampton – background vocals
- Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
- Wes Hightower – background vocals
- Jim Hoke – harmonica, accordion
- Clayton Ivey – piano
- John Jorgenson – electric guitar
- Bill Kenner – mandola
- B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
- Brent Mason – electric guitar
- Steve Nathan – piano, keyboard, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, Hammond B-3 organ
- Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
- John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
- Harry Stinson – background vocals
- Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, National guitar
- Crystal Taliefero – background vocals
- Russell Terrell – background vocals
- Lou Toomey – electric guitar
- Dan Tyminski – background vocals
- Christopher Willis – background vocals
- Dennis Wilson – background vocals
- Glenn Worf – bass guitar
- Mark Wright – tambourine, background vocals
- Reese Wynans – Hammond B-3 organ
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
| Chart | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 147 |
| US Top Country Albums | 20 |