Tight Rope (album)
| Tight Rope | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 21, 1999 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 47:06 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville | |||
| Producer | Kix Brooks Don Cook Ronnie Dunn Byron Gallimore | |||
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| Alternative Cover | ||||
 Re-release with title printed on cover | ||||
| Singles from Tight Rope | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Tight Rope is the sixth studio album by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 1999 on Arista Nashville. Their least successful album commercially, it was the first album of their career not to receive platinum certification from the RIAA; furthermore, only one of its three singles reached the top ten on the country charts. The album's lead single was a cover of John Waite's 1984 number-one pop hit "Missing You". This cover peaked at No. 15 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Following it were "Beer Thirty" (No. 19) and "You'll Always Be Loved by Me" (No. 5). "Goin' Under Gettin' Over You" reached No. 60 from unsolicited play as an album cut.
The duo has rarely played any songs from Tight Rope live and the album has been excluded altogether from all their compilations.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Goin' Under Gettin' Over You" | Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride | 2:56 |
| 2. | "Missing You" | John Waite, Mark Leonard, Charles Sandford | 3:46 |
| 3. | "Temptation #9" | Kix Brooks, Bob DiPiero | 3:32 |
| 4. | "Hurt Train" | Dunn, McBride | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Can't Stop My Heart" | Brooks, Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro | 4:19 |
| 6. | "Too Far This Time" | Dunn | 3:30 |
| 7. | "You'll Always Be Loved by Me" | Dunn, McBride | 3:02 |
| 8. | "I Love You More" | Brooks, DiPiero | 3:21 |
| 9. | "Beer Thirty" | Dunn, McBride | 2:37 |
| 10. | "Don't Look Back Now" | Brooks, Don Cook | 3:52 |
| 11. | "All Out of Love" | Dunn, McBride | 4:09 |
| 12. | "The Trouble with Angels" | Brooks, DiPiero | 4:12 |
| 13. | "Texas and Norma Jean" | Brooks, Lewis Anderson | 3:51 |
Charts
Weekly charts
| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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| Canadian Country Albums (RPM) | 6 |
| US Billboard 200[2] | 31 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[3] | 6 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (1999) | Position |
|---|---|
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[4] | 56 |
| Chart (2000) | Position |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[5] | 41 |
Personnel
Brooks & Dunn
- Kix Brooks - lead vocals, background vocals
- Ronnie Dunn - lead vocals, background vocals
Musicians
- Robert Bailey - background vocals
- Bruce Bouton - lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar
- Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
- Larry Byrom - acoustic guitar
- Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
- Kim Fleming - background vocals
- Larry Franklin - fiddle
- Paul Franklin - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
- Rob Hajacos - fiddle, "assorted hoedown tools"
- Vicki Hampton - background vocals
- Aubrey Haynie - fiddle
- John Barlow Jarvis - piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ
- B. James Lowry - electric guitar
- Brent Mason - electric guitar
- Steve Nathan - keyboards
- John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
- Dennis Wilson - background vocals
- Lonnie Wilson - drums, percussion
- Glenn Worf - bass guitar
- Curtis Young - background vocals
Production
- Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, Don Cook (tracks 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13)
- Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, Byron Gallimore (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11)
- Doug Sax - Mastering
References
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r428783
- ^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
- ^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
- ^ "1999 The Year in Music". Billboard. Vol. 111, no. 52. December 25, 1999. p. YE-64. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
- ^ "2000 The Year in Music". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 53. December 30, 2000. p. YE-62. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
