Hillbilly Deluxe (Brooks & Dunn album)

Hillbilly Deluxe
Studio album by Brooks & Dunn
Released August 30, 2005
Genre Country
Length 48:34
Label Arista Nashville
Producer Kix Brooks
Tony Brown
Bob DiPiero
Ronnie Dunn
Tom Shapiro
Mark Wright
Brooks & Dunn chronology
The Greatest Hits Collection II
(2004)
Hillbilly Deluxe
(2005)
Cowboy Town
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Hillbilly Deluxe is the ninth studio album by country music duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2005 on Arista Nashville. Certified Platinum in the United States by the RIAA, the album produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The duo produced the majority of the album with Tony Brown.

Content

Hillbilly Deluxe was led off by the single "Play Something Country." This song was co-written by Ronnie Dunn, one-half of Brooks & Dunn, along with former McBride & the Ride frontman Terry McBride, who plays bass in Brooks & Dunn's road band and co-writes several of their songs. "Play Something Country" was the duo's twentieth and final Number One hit on the Billboard country singles charts. "Believe" and "Building Bridges" (featuring guest vocals from Vince Gill and Sheryl Crow), were released as the album's second and third singles, respectively, and both were additional Top Ten hits. The title track was the final single released from the album, and it reached a peak of number 16.

Production

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn produced the majority of the album with Tony Brown, except for "My Heart's Not a Hotel", which Brooks, Brown and Dunn produced with Mark Wright. Brooks and Tom Shapiro co-produced the demo for "One More Roll of the Dice" (which they also co-wrote), while the demos for "Her West Was Wilder" and "She Likes to Get Out of Town" were produced by Brooks and Bob DiPiero, who also co-wrote those tracks with Brooks.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Play Something Country"  Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride 3:14
2. "She’s About As Lonely As I’m Going to Let Her Get"  Dunn, McBride 2:49
3. "My Heart’s Not a Hotel"  Rob Crosby, Allen Shamblin 3:40
4. "Whiskey Do My Talkin’"  Dunn, McBride 3:34
5. "Hillbilly Deluxe"  Brad Crisler, Craig Wiseman 4:18
6. "One More Roll of the Dice"  Kix Brooks, Tom Shapiro 4:05
7. "Just Another Neon Night"  Dunn, McBride 3:16
8. "Believe"  Dunn, Wiseman 5:38
9. "Building Bridges" (ft. Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)Hank Devito, Larry Willoughby 4:23
10. "Her West Was Wilder"  Brooks, Bob DiPiero 3:33
11. "I May Never Get Over You"  Dunn, McBride 2:56
12. "She Likes to Get Out of Town"  Brooks, DiPero 3:44
13. "Again"  Darrell Brown, Radney Foster 3:15

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[2]

Musicians

Choir on "Believe" and "Again"

  • Jovan E. Bender
  • Ashley Cromartie
  • Delva Dwana
  • DaJuana R. Elder
  • Danyelle Haley
  • Moiro Konchella
  • Erika Rowell
  • Meshia Sandifer
  • Chris Smith
  • Andre Trice
  • Raymond Williams

Production

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2005) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 3

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country US
2005 "Play Something Country" 1 37
"Believe" 8 60
2006 "Building Bridges" 4 66
2007 "Hillbilly Deluxe" 16 86
Preceded by
Time Well Wasted by Brad Paisley
Top Country Albums number-one album
September 17–30, 2005
Succeeded by
Jasper County by Trisha Yearwood

References

  1. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r786847
  2. Hillbilly Deluxe (CD booklet). Brooks & Dunn. Arista Nashville. 2005. 69946.
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