'' Dirt Road Driveway ''is the seventh
studio album
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from American
country music
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artist
Granger Smith. Released on 16 April 2013, the work was published via Pioneer Music, with distribution from
Thirty Tigers.
Content
Five singles were released from the album: "We Do It in a Field", "Silverado Bench Seat", "Miles and Mud Tires", "If Money Didn't Matter", and "Bury Me in Blue Jeans".
Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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of
AllMusic
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says that "Smith's appeal is how he seems like the guy next door but it's also his Achilles heel — he seems like any old good old boy who might cross your way, which is reason enough to like him, but there's no hook to make you remember him."
Track listing
All tracks written by Granger Smith, except where noted.
#"We Do It in a Field" - 3:30
#"If Money Didn't Matter" - 3:50
#"Stick Around" (David Ramirez) - 3:06
#"19 Forever" - 3:23
#"I Am the Midnight" - 3:57
#"Miles and Mud Tires" - 2:48
#"Come" - 3:22
#"Silverado Bench Seat" - 2:55
#"Easy" - 3:36
#"Bury Me in Blue Jeans" (Granger Smith, Kevin Graham) - 3:41
#"Country Boy Love" - 3:32
#*featuring Earl Dibbles Jr.
#"The Country Boy Song" (Granger Smith, Tylerr Smith, Matt Caldwell, Chris Lee) - 3:26
#*featuring Earl Dibbles Jr.
Personnel
Adapted from liner notes.
;Musicians
* Geoff Ashcraft - electric guitar, piano, mandolin
* Mitch Connell - piano, organ
* Austin Davis - banjo
* Milo Deering - pedal steel guitar, fiddle, mandolin,
Dobro
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The Dobro was originally ...
* Kris Farrow - electric guitar
* Wes Hightower - background vocals
* Todd Howard - electric guitar,
classical guitar
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* Chad Jeffers - Dobro
* Caleb Kelly - drums
* Tim Lauer - keyboards, accordion
* Dusty Saxton - drums
* Amber Smith - background vocals
* Granger Smith - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, percussion, shotgun
* Jonathan Wisinski - bass guitar
;Technical
* Billy Decker - mixing
* Chris Latham - mastering
* Granger Smith - producer
Chart history
References
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2013 albums
Granger Smith albums