| Six Days on the Road | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Sawyer Brown |
| Cover: | sawyerbrownsixdays.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1996 at Javelina Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) and LaLa Land (Louisville, Kentucky). |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 44:53 |
| Label: | Curb |
| Producer: | Mac McAnally Mark Miller |
| Prev Title: | This Thing Called Wantin' and Havin' It All |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Hallelujah, He Is Born |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
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.
"The Nebraska Song" is a tribute to Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback Brook Berringer, who was killed in a plane crash in 1996.[1] The song is track number 18, the same as Berringer's jersey number. (To make this possible, tracks 13 through 17 are blank.)
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."[2]
As listed in liner notes[3]
| Chart (1997) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 8 | |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 73 |