Steers & Stripes
{{Infobox album
| name = Steers & Stripes
| type = studio
| artist = Brooks & Dunn
| cover = SteersStripes.jpg
| alt =
| released = April 17, 2001
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = * Neotraditional country
| length = 52:12
| label = Arista Nashville
| producer = Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn
Mark Wright
| prev_title = Tight Rope
| prev_year = 1999
| next_title = It Won't Be Christmas Without You
| next_year = 2002
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Steers & Stripes
| type = Studio
| single1 = Ain't Nothing 'bout You
| single1date = February 12, 2001
| single2 = Only in America
| single2date = June 18, 2001
| single3 = The Long Goodbye
| single3date = October 22, 2001
| single4 = My Heart Is Lost to You
| single4date = April 8, 2002
| single5 = Every River
| single5date = September 2, 2002
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r528300|pure_url=yes}}
| rev2 = Rolling Stone
| rev2Score = (favorable)[https://web.archive.org/web/20080830003135/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/brooksdunn/albums/album/210384/review/5942508/steers__stripes link]
}}
Steers & Stripes is the seventh studio album by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in April 2001 via Arista Nashville. The album produced five singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, of which the first three reached number one. "Ain't Nothing 'bout You", the first single, became the duo's biggest hit, not only spending six weeks at the top of the country chart, but also reaching No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was also declared by Billboard as the number-one country song of 2001. Following it were "Only in America" and "The Long Goodbye" (the latter of which was later a pop hit for Ronan Keating, co-written with Paul Brady). The last two singles were the No. 5 "My Heart Is Lost to You" and the No. 12 "Every River".
The track "The Last Thing I Do" was also recorded by James Otto for his debut album Days of Our Lives, and by Montgomery Gentry for their 2004 album You Do Your Thing (as "If It's the Last Thing I Do").
Track listing
{{tracklist
| title1 = Only in America
| writer1 = Kix Brooks, Don Cook, Ronnie Rogers
| length1 = 4:29
| title2 = The Last Thing I Do
| writer2 = David Lee Murphy, Kim Tribble
| length2 = 4:02
| title3 = The Long Goodbye
| writer3 = Paul Brady, Ronan Keating
| length3 = 3:51
| title4 = Go West
| writer4 = Brooks, Bob DiPiero
| length4 = 3:56
| title5 = My Heart Is Lost to You
| writer5 = Brett Beavers, Connie Harrington
| length5 = 2:59
| title6 = Good Girls Go to Heaven
| writer6 = Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride, Shawn Camp
| length6 = 2:50
| title7 = When She's Gone, She's Gone
| writer7 = Tom Douglas, Wayland Holyfield
| length7 = 4:25
| title8 = Ain't Nothing 'bout You
| writer8 = Tom Shapiro, Rivers Rutherford
| length8 = 3:22
| title9 = Unloved
| writer9 = Steve Diamond, Keith Follesé
| length9 = 4:30
| title10 = Deny, Deny, Deny
| writer10 = Brooks, DiPiero
| length10 = 3:20
| title11 = Lucky Me, Lonely You
| writer11 = Dunn, McBride, Camp
| length11 = 3:24
| title12 = I Fall
| writer12 = Brooks, Don Cook
| length12 = 3:15
| title13 = Every River
| writer13 = Kim Richey, Angelo Petraglia, Tom Littlefield
| length13 = 3:29
| title14 = See Jane Dance
| writer14 = Charlie Crowe
| length14 = 4:12
}}
Chart performance
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=Weekly charts=
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! Chart (2001) ! Peak |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|4|artist=Brooks & Dunn|accessdate=August 31, 2020}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardCountry|1|artist=Brooks & Dunn|accessdate=August 31, 2020}} |
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=Year-end charts=
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! Chart (2002) ! Position |
| Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan){{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031204032208/http://jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_country.html|archivedate=December 4, 2003|url=http://jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_country.html|title=Top 100 country albums of 2002 in Canada|website=Jam!|accessdate=March 28, 2022}}
| align="center"| 29 |
| US Billboard 200{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2002/top-billboard-200-albums|title=Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2002|work=Billboard|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}
| align="center"| 146 |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2002/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 2002|work=Billboard|accessdate=August 31, 2020}}
| align="center"| 15 |
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Certifications
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|title=Steers & Stripes|artist=Brooks and Dunn|award=Platinum|relyear=2001|certyear=2003|accessdate=August 14, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=Steers|artist=Brooks & Dunn|award=Platinum|relyear=2001|certyear=2002|accessdate=August 14, 2024}}
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Personnel
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- Bob Bailey – background vocals
- Kix Brooks – lead vocals, background vocals
- J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Greg Davis – banjo
- Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar, steel guitar
- Ronnie Dunn – lead vocals, background vocals
- Kim Fleming – background vocals
- Shannon Forrest – drums
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar, Dobro
- Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
- Vicki Hampton – background vocals
- Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
- B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
- Brent Mason – electric guitar, gut string guitar
- Mindi Abair – saxophone
- Gene Miller – background vocals
- Steve Nathan – keyboards, synthesizer, piano, Hammond B-3 organ
- Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
- Kim Richey – background vocals
- Chris Rodriguez – background vocals
- Brent Rowan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
- Harry Stinson – background vocals
- Trisha Yearwood – background vocals
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Strings by The Nashville String Machine arranged and conducted by David Campbell.
References
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External links
- [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r528300|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.com: Album review]
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