"Baby, Let's Lay Down and Dance" is a song recorded by American

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singer

Garth Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American Country music, country singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him his immense popularity, particularly in the United States, ...

. It was released as the first single off Brooks' 2016 album, ''

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''. The single was distributed exclusively via Brooks'

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GhostTunes GhostTunes was an online music store and digital library founded by American country music singer Garth Brooks, Randy Bernard, and Chris Webb. It launched in September 2014 and featured singles and albums from a variety of artists, including Brook ...

, to users who entered a code from a specially marked bag of

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. It was then released to radio and GhostTunes' conventional site. The song was written by

Kent Blazy Kent Blazy (born in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter. His credits include several singles for Garth Brooks (including Brooks' first number one hit, "If Tomorrow Never Comes"), as well as singles by Gary Morris, Diamond ...

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, Victoria Shaw, Kim Williams and Brooks. Williams died before the song was finished, and as Williams was a longtime collaborator with Brooks, it was important to Brooks to release this song as the album's first single.

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