Dirt Road Driveway Explained

Dirt Road Driveway
Type:	studio
Artist:	Granger Smith
Cover:	Dirt road driveway.jpg
Genre:	Country
Label:	Pioneer Music/Thirty Tigers
Producer:	Granger Smith
Prev Title:	Poets & Prisoners
Prev Year:	2011
Next Title:	Remington
Next Year:	2016

Dirt Road Driveway is the seventh studio album from American country music artist Granger Smith. Released on 16 April 2013, the work was published via Pioneer Music, with distribution from Thirty Tigers.^[1]

Content

Five singles were released from the album: "We Do It in a Field",^[2] "Silverado Bench Seat",^[3] "Miles and Mud Tires",^[4] "If Money Didn't Matter",^[5] and "Bury Me in Blue Jeans".^[6]

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic 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."^[7]

Track listing

All tracks written by Granger Smith, except where noted.^[8]

1. "We Do It in a Field" - 3:30
2. "If Money Didn't Matter" - 3:50
3. "Stick Around" (David Ramirez) - 3:06
4. "19 Forever" - 3:23
5. "I Am the Midnight" - 3:57
6. "Miles and Mud Tires" - 2:48
7. "Come" - 3:22
8. "Silverado Bench Seat" - 2:55
9. "Easy" - 3:36
10. "Bury Me in Blue Jeans" (Granger Smith, Kevin Graham) - 3:41
11. "Country Boy Love" - 3:32
    • featuring Earl Dibbles Jr.
12. "The Country Boy Song" (Granger Smith, Tylerr Smith, Matt Caldwell, Chris Lee) - 3:26
    • featuring Earl Dibbles Jr.

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.^[8]

Musicians

• Geoff Ashcraft - electric guitar, piano, mandolin
• Mitch Connell - piano, organ
• Austin Davis - banjo
• Milo Deering - pedal steel guitar, fiddle, mandolin, Dobro
• Kris Farrow - electric guitar
• Wes Hightower - background vocals
• Todd Howard - electric guitar, classical guitar
• 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

Notes and References

1. Granger Smith Pulls Into 'Dirt Road Driveway'. Dauphin. Chuck. April 16, 2013. Billboard. 11 December 2017.
2. News: Dukes. Billy. Granger Smith, 'We Do It in a Field' – Song Review. November 5, 2015. Taste of Country. November 6, 2012.
3. News: Dukes. Billy. Granger Smith, 'Silverado Bench Seat' – Song Review. November 5, 2015. Taste of Country. August 5, 2013.
4. News: Sciarretto. Amy. Granger Smith Ditches the Cubicle for Country Air in 'Miles and Mud Tires' Video. November 5, 2015. Taste of Country. December 5, 2013.
5. Web site: R&R :: Going For Adds :: Country. Radio & Records. November 5, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416180307/http://gfa.radioandrecords.com/PublishGFA/GFANextPage.asp?sDate=04%2F28%2F2014&Format=4. April 16, 2014.
6. News: Granger Smith, 'Bury Me in Blue Jeans' – ToC Critic's Pick [Listen]]. November 5, 2015. Taste of Country. January 12, 2015.
7. Web site: Dirt Road Driveway review. Erlewine. Stephen Thomas. AllMusic. 11 December 2017.
8. Dirt Road Driveway . Granger Smith . 2013 . CD booklet . Pioneer Music/Thirty Tigers . PM09.