Cowboy Town

2007 studio album by Brooks & Dunn

Cowboy Town

Studio album by

Brooks & Dunn

Released

October 2, 2007

Genre

Country

Length

43:27

Label

Arista Nashville

Producer

Kix Brooks
Tony Brown
Ronnie Dunn

Brooks & Dunn chronology

Hillbilly Deluxe
(2005)

Cowboy Town
(2007)

Playlist: The Very Best of Brooks & Dunn
(2008)

Singles from Cowboy Town

"Proud of the House We Built"
Released: June 18, 2007
"God Must Be Busy"
Released: November 5, 2007
"Put a Girl in It"
Released: May 5, 2008
"Cowgirls Don't Cry"
Released: October 20, 2008

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Cowboy Town is the tenth studio album by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2007 by Arista Nashville. Produced by the duo and Tony Brown, the album has accounted for four Top 20 country singles on the Billboard country singles charts: "Proud of the House We Built," "God Must Be Busy," "Put a Girl in It," and "Cowgirls Don't Cry." The album debuted at number 13 on the Billboard albums chart, selling 68,900 copies in the first week of release. To date it has sold over 400,000 copies.

Content

As with all of Brooks & Dunn's albums since the late 1990s, this album features songs co-written by Terry McBride, former lead singer of McBride & The Ride. Texas country singer Jerry Jeff Walker is featured on "The Ballad of Jerry Jeff Walker".

One of the McBride co-writes, "Proud of the House We Built," was issued in late 2007 as the lead-off single, and reached a peak of number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. "God Must Be Busy" and "Put a Girl in It" were released as the album's second and third singles, respectively. "God Must Be Busy" peaked at number 11, while "Put a Girl in It" reached number 3. "Cowgirls Don't Cry," another McBride co-write, was released as the fourth and final single. After the duo performed the song with Reba McEntire (who was also the song's inspiration) at the Country Music Association awards in November 2008, a re-recording with McEntire's vocals was shipped to radio, and from November 2008 onward, the song was credited to Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire.^[2] It was the highest-peaking single from Cowboy Town, reaching a peak of number 2.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cowboy Town"	Ronnie Dunn Larry Boone Paul Nelson	3:19
2.	"Proud of the House We Built"	Dunn Marv Green Terry McBride	3:47
3.	"Johnny Cash Junkie (Buck Owens Freak)"	Dunn Larry Boone Nelson	2:58
4.	"Cowgirls Don't Cry" (featuring Reba McEntire)	Dunn McBride	3:41
5.	"Put a Girl in It"	Rhett Akins Dallas Davidson Ben Hayslip	3:29
6.	"The Ballad of Jerry Jeff Walker" (featuring Jerry Jeff Walker)	Kix Brooks Bob DiPiero	3:41
7.	"Tequila"	Dunn McBride	2:48
8.	"Drop in the Bucket"	Brooks DiPiero	4:26
9.	"Drunk on Love"	Darrell Brown Radney Foster	3:53
10.	"Chance of a Lifetime"	Brooks DiPiero	3:51
11.	"American Dreamer"	Brooks Jim Beavers Don Cook	3:41
12.	"God Must Be Busy"	Clint Daniels Michael P. Heeney	3:53
Total length:			43:27

Wal-Mart exclusive bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Cowboy, Cowboy"	Dunn McBride	4:15
14.	"Damn Right I'm Gonna Miss You"	Julian Gallagher Craig Wiseman	4:10
15.	"Walk Away Slow"	Brooks DiPiero Cook	4:00
Total length:			55:52

Personnel

Brooks & Dunn

Kix Brooks — lead vocals, background vocals
Ronnie Dunn — lead vocals, background vocals

Additional Musicians

Robert Bailey — background vocals
Eddie Bayers — drums
Larry Beaird — acoustic guitar
Mike Brignardello — bass guitar
Tom Bukovac — acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Mark Casstevens — acoustic guitar
J.T. Corenflos — electric guitar
Chad Cromwell — drums
Eric Darken — percussion
Dan Dugmore — steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Haley Dunn — background vocals
Kim Fleming — background vocals
Paul Franklin — steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Kenny Greenberg — acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Rob Hajacos — fiddle
Owen Hale — drums
Vicki Hampton — background vocals
Tony Harrell — keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
Aubrey Haynie — fiddle

Wes Hightower — background vocals
John Barlow Jarvis — piano
Jeff Kersey — background vocals
Terry McBride — bass guitar, background vocals
Reba McEntire — vocals on "Cowgirls Don't Cry"
Chris McHugh — drums
Jerry McPherson — electric guitar
Brent Mason — electric guitar
James Mitchell — electric guitar
Greg Morrow — drums, percussion
Gary Morse — steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Wendy Moten — background vocals
Jimmy Nichols — Fender Rhodes, keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
Russ Pahl — steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Kim Parent — background vocals

Larry Paxton — bass guitar
Pat Peterson — background vocals
Alison Prestwood — bass guitar
Michael Rhodes — bass guitar
John Wesley Ryles — background vocals
Rex Schnelle — electric guitar, percussion
Paul Scholton — drums
Hank Singer — fiddle
Jimmie Lee Sloas — bass guitar
Harry Stinson — background vocals
Bryan Sutton — acoustic guitar, mandolin
Crystal Taliefero — background vocals
Russell Terrell — background vocals
Lou Toomey — electric guitar
Ilya Toshinsky — banjo, acoustic guitar
Jerry Jeff Walker — vocals on "The Ballad of Jerry Jeff Walker"
John Willis — banjo
Glenn Worf — bass guitar
Reese Wynans — Hammond organ, piano

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[3]	23
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)	1
US Billboard 200^[4]	13
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[5]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[6]	65
Chart (2008)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[7]	49
Chart (2009)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[8]	74

References

^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r1206343
^ "Brooks & Dunn release Cowgirls single with Reba". Country Standard Time. 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
^ "Australiancharts.com – Brooks & Dunn – Cowboy Town". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved November 23, 2020.

Brooks & Dunn

Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn

Studio albums

Brand New Man
Hard Workin' Man
Waitin' on Sundown
Borderline
If You See Her
Tight Rope
Steers & Stripes
It Won't Be Christmas Without You
Red Dirt Road
Hillbilly Deluxe
Cowboy Town
Reboot

Compilations

The Greatest Hits Collection
Super Hits
The Greatest Hits Collection II
Playlist: The Very Best of Brooks & Dunn
#1s… and Then Some

Singles

1990s	"Brand New Man" "My Next Broken Heart" "Neon Moon" "Boot Scootin' Boogie" "Lost and Found" "Hard Workin' Man" "We'll Burn That Bridge" "She Used to Be Mine" "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" "That Ain't No Way to Go" "She's Not the Cheatin' Kind" "I'll Never Forgive My Heart" "Little Miss Honky Tonk" "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" "Whiskey Under the Bridge" "My Maria" "I Am That Man" "Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing" "A Man This Lonely" "Why Would I Say Goodbye" "Honky Tonk Truth" "He's Got You" "If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Reba McEntire) "How Long Gone" "Husbands and Wives" "I Can't Get Over You" "Missing You" "Beer Thirty"
2000s	"You'll Always Be Loved by Me" "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" "Only in America" "The Long Goodbye" "My Heart Is Lost to You" "Every River" "Red Dirt Road" "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" "That's What She Gets for Loving Me" "That's What It's All About" "It's Getting Better All the Time" "Play Something Country" "Believe" "Building Bridges" (with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill) "Hillbilly Deluxe" "Proud of the House We Built" "God Must Be Busy" "Put a Girl in It" "Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Reba McEntire) "Indian Summer" "Honky Tonk Stomp" (with Billy Gibbons)

1990s

"Brand New Man"
"My Next Broken Heart"
"Neon Moon"
"Boot Scootin' Boogie"
"Lost and Found"
"Hard Workin' Man"
"We'll Burn That Bridge"
"She Used to Be Mine"
"Rock My World (Little Country Girl)"
"That Ain't No Way to Go"
"She's Not the Cheatin' Kind"
"I'll Never Forgive My Heart"
"Little Miss Honky Tonk"
"You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone"
"Whiskey Under the Bridge"
"My Maria"
"I Am That Man"
"Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing"
"A Man This Lonely"
"Why Would I Say Goodbye"
"Honky Tonk Truth"
"He's Got You"
"If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Reba McEntire)
"How Long Gone"
"Husbands and Wives"
"I Can't Get Over You"
"Missing You"
"Beer Thirty"

2000s

"You'll Always Be Loved by Me"
"Ain't Nothing 'bout You"
"Only in America"
"The Long Goodbye"
"My Heart Is Lost to You"
"Every River"
"Red Dirt Road"
"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"
"That's What She Gets for Loving Me"
"That's What It's All About"
"It's Getting Better All the Time"
"Play Something Country"
"Believe"
"Building Bridges" (with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)
"Hillbilly Deluxe"
"Proud of the House We Built"
"God Must Be Busy"
"Put a Girl in It"
"Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Reba McEntire)
"Indian Summer"
"Honky Tonk Stomp" (with Billy Gibbons)

Solo works

Kix Brooks	Kix Brooks "Sacred Ground" New to This Town "New to This Town"
Ronnie Dunn	Ronnie Dunn "Bleed Red" "Cost of Livin'" "Let the Cowboy Rock" Peace, Love, and Country Music Tattooed Heart "Damn Drunk" Re-Dunn "Amarillo by Morning" "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"