"A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side" is a song recorded by American

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Tracy Byrd Tracy Lynn Byrd (born December 17, 1966) is an American country music artist. Signed to Universal Music Group Nashville, MCA Nashville Records in 1992, Byrd broke through on the country music scene that year with his 1993 single "Holdin' Heaven" ...

and

Mark Chesnutt Mark Nelson Chesnutt (born September 6, 1963) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Between 1990 and 1999, he had his greatest chart success recording for Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA and Decca branches, with a total of ei ...

. It was released in March 2001 as the first single from Byrd's album '' Ten Rounds''. The song reached #21 on the ''

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chart. The song was written by

Rivers Rutherford Melvern Rivers Rutherford II (born June 17, 1967) is an American country music songwriter. Has been writing country songs since the mid-1990s as a songwriter, he has written several number one country hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by B ...

and George Teren.

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Byrd and Chesnutt had been friends since both artists' major-label music careers began in the early 1990s. Byrd told

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that he wanted to do a duet with Chesnutt for several years, but the opportunity for one never occurred until he found the song. He also presented it as an example of wanting to sound "different" on the corresponding album '' Ten Rounds'', to which "A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side" served as lead single. The same publication describes the song as "toe-tapping, fast paced music" about a narrator who lists off various aspects that he finds a personal annoyance. One example listed in the last verse is a criticism of mainstream country music, wherein Byrd sings, "''a little sissy in a cowboy hat ain't country''".

Chart performance

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2001 singles 2001 songs Tracy Byrd songs Mark Chesnutt songs Songs written by Rivers Rutherford Songs written by George Teren Song recordings produced by Billy Joe Walker Jr. RCA Records Nashville singles Male vocal duets Songs about country music {{2000s-country-song-stub