Tight Rope (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Tight Rope
| type = studio
| artist = Brooks & Dunn
| cover = Tight rope.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 21, 1999
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 47:06
| label = Arista Nashville
| producer = Kix Brooks
Don Cook
Ronnie Dunn
Byron Gallimore
| prev_title = Super Hits
| prev_year = 1999
| next_title = Steers & Stripes
| next_year = 2001
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Alternative Cover
| type = studio album
| cover = Tight Rope alternate.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption = Re-release with title printed on cover
}}
{{Singles
| name = Tight Rope
| type = studio
| single1 = Missing You
| single1date = August 2, 1999
| single2 = Beer Thirty
| single2date = October 25, 1999
| single3 = You'll Always Be Loved by Me
| single3date = March 21, 2000
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r428783|pure_url=yes}}
}}
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.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Tight Rope track listing
| total length =
| title1 = Goin' Under Gettin' Over You
| writer1 = Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride
| length1 = 2:56
| title2 = Missing You
| writer2 = John Waite, Mark Leonard, Charles Sandford
| length2 = 3:46
| title3 = Temptation #9
| writer3 = Kix Brooks, Bob DiPiero
| length3 = 3:32
| title4 = Hurt Train
| writer4 = Dunn, McBride
| length4 = 4:04
| title5 = Can't Stop My Heart
| writer5 = Brooks, Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro
| length5 = 4:19
| title6 = Too Far This Time
| writer6 = Dunn
| length6 = 3:30
| title7 = You'll Always Be Loved by Me
| writer7 = Dunn, McBride
| length7 = 3:02
| title8 = I Love You More
| writer8 = Brooks, DiPiero
| length8 = 3:21
| title9 = Beer Thirty
| writer9 = Dunn, McBride
| length9 = 2:37
| title10 = Don't Look Back Now
| writer10 = Brooks, Don Cook
| length10 = 3:52
| title11 = All Out of Love
| writer11 = Dunn, McBride
| length11 = 4:09
| title12 = The Trouble with Angels
| writer12 = Brooks, DiPiero
| length12 = 4:12
| title13 = Texas and Norma Jean
| writer13 = Brooks, Lewis Anderson
| length13 = 3:51
}}
Charts
=Weekly charts=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |
| scope="col"| Chart (1999)
! scope="col"| Peak |
|---|
| scope="row"| Canadian Country Albums (RPM)
| 6 |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|31|artist=Brooks & Dunn|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 13, 2021}} |
| {{album chart|BillboardCountry|6|artist=Brooks & Dunn|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 13, 2021}} |
=Year-end charts=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |
| scope="col"| Chart (1999)
! scope="col"| Position |
|---|
| scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ|title=1999 The Year in Music|magazine=Billboard|volume=111|issue=52|page=YE-64|date=December 25, 1999|accessdate=May 13, 2021}}
| 56 |
| scope="col"| Chart (2000)
! scope="col"| Position |
| scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehEEAAAAMBAJ|title=2000 The Year in Music|magazine=Billboard|volume=112|issue=53|page=YE-62|date=December 30, 2000|accessdate=May 13, 2021}}
| 41 |
Certifications
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|title=Tight Rope|artist=Brooks & Dunn|award=Gold|relyear=1999|certyear=1999|accessdate=August 14, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}
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
{{Reflist}}
{{Brooks & Dunn}}
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Category:Arista Records albums