Six Days On The Road (album)

''Six Days on the Road'' is the twelfth studio album by American country music band Sawyer Brown. It was released in 1997 on Curb Records. Its title track and lead-off single is a cover of the Dave Dudley hit from 1963. This cover reached number 13 on the ''Billboard'' country charts. Following this song was another cover, this time of "This Night Won't Last Forever", which was a pop hit for Bill LaBounty in 1978 and later for Michael Johnson in 1979. Sawyer Brown's cover was a number 6 country hit in late 1997. Also released from this album were "Another Side" and "Small Talk", both of which failed to make the country Top 40.

Content

"The Nebraska Song" is a tribute to Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback Brook Berringer, who was killed in a plane crash in 1996. The song is track number 18, the same as Berringer's jersey number. (To make this possible, tracks 13 through 17 are blank.)

Critical reception

Bob Cannon of ''New Country'' magazine rated the album 3.5 stars out of 5. He wrote that the band "serve up a batch of tunes that, while never matching the emotional depth of 1992's 'All These Years', is a top-shelf collection that stresses the group's versatility." He praised the rock influences on some tracks and called "The Nebraska Song" "intimate", criticizing only the cover of "This Night Won't Last Forever" by saying that it was "as bland as the original."

Track listing

#"Another Side" (Mark Miller) – 4:11
#"Talkin' 'bout You" (Mark Alan Springer) – 3:39
#" This Night Won't Last Forever" (Bill LaBounty, Roy Freeland) – 3:56
#" Six Days on the Road" (Earl Green, Carl Montgomery) – 2:53
#"Small Talk" ( Mac McAnally, Miller) – 3:42
#"With This Ring" (McAnally) – 3:12
#"Transistor Rodeo" (Miller) – 3:06
#"Night and Day" (McAnally) – 3:35
#"Half a Heart" (Gregg Hubbard, Miller) – 3:02
#"Between You and Paradise" ( Neal Coty, Springer) – 4:15
#"A Love Like This" (Miller, Bill Shore) – 2:50
#"Every Twist and Turn" (Hubbard, Miller) – 3:11
# (''blank track'') – 0:04
# (''blank track'') – 0:04
# (''blank track'') – 0:04
# (''blank track'') – 0:04
# (''blank track'') – 0:05
#"The Nebraska Song" (Miller) – 2:53

Personnel

As listed in liner notes

Sawyer Brown
* Mark Miller – lead vocals
* Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard – keyboards, backing vocals
* Duncan Cameron – lead guitars, backing vocals
* Jim Scholten – bass
* Joe Smyth – drums

Additional Musicians
* Clayton Ivey – keyboards, acoustic piano
* Mike Lawler – synthesizers
* Steve Nathan – keyboards
* Matt Rollings – acoustic piano
* Scott Emerick – acoustic guitar
* Joe Erkman – electric guitar
* Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
* Rick Vito – electric guitar, slide guitar
* Dan Dugmore – lap steel guitar
* Paul Franklin – steel guitar
* JayDee Maness – steel guitar
* Rob Hajacos – fiddle
* Roger Hawkins – drums, percussion

Additional vocals (background hollers and caterwauling) on "Six Days on the Road"
* Mark Miller, Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Mac McAnally, Mitch DeNeui, Frank Miller and Alan Schulman

Production

* Mark Miller – producer
* Mac McAnally – producer
* Alan Schulman – recording, mixing
* Brian Tankersley – additional recording, mixing
* Greg Pace – additional recording
* Kent Bruce – recording assistant
* Ken Hutton – recording assistant
* Steve Lowery – recording assistant
* Sandy Jenkins – mix assistant
* Denny Purcell – mastering
* Jonathan Russell – mastering assistant
* Monica Mercer – art direction, design
* John Chiasson – photography

Chart performance

References

External links

* ''Six Days on the Road''at Allmusic

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1997 albums
Curb Records albums
Sawyer Brown albums
Albums produced by Mac McAnally