Bless the Broken Road
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| Single by Rascal Flatts from the album Feels Like Today |
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| Released | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 3:50 | ||||
| Label | Lyric Street | ||||
| Writer(s) | Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna, Marcus Hummon | ||||
| Producer | Mark Bright, Marty Williams | ||||
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"Bless the Broken Road" is the title a song that has been recorded by several American country music artists to date. It was co-written by Marcus Hummon and members of the country music group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1994, and recorded by Hummon a year later. Since then, Melodie Crittenden, Sons of the Desert, Geoff Moore, Selah, and Rascal Flatts have all recorded the song as well; Rascal Flatts' version was a Number One hit on the Billboard country music charts in 2005, and earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Country Song.
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[edit] History
Co-written by Marcus Hummon, Jeff Hanna, and Bobby Boyd, "Bless the Broken Road" was originally recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their 1994 album Acoustic. One year later, Hummon also recorded the song for his debut album All in Good Time.
The first version to be released as a single was released in 1998 by Melodie Crittenden under the title "Broken Road". This version was a #42 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. The same year, country band Sons of the Desert recorded their own version of the song, for a planned second album for Epic Records. This album, however, was not released, due to a dispute between the band and their label.[1] One year later, Geoff Moore recorded the song as well.
The highest-charting rendition to date was by the country music group Rascal Flatts, who cut the song for their Feels Like Today album. Released in 2005, their version spent five weeks at Number One on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; it also earned a Grammy Award for Best Country Song.
That same year, Crittenden recorded the song a second time, as a member of the Christian band Selah; this version was a Top Five hit on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs charts.
On May 25, 2005, during a live performance on American Idol by Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts,[2] an additional version was recorded. While not in wide release, and never released on an album, the version received enough radio airplay to enter the country music charts at #50.
[edit] Chart positions
[edit] Melodie Crittenden
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 42 |
[edit] Rascal Flatts
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 29 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 40 |
[edit] Rascal Flatts w/ Carrie Underwood
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 50 |
[edit] Selah w/ Melodie Crittenden
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Christian Songs | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Christian Adult Contemporary | 5 |
[edit] Succession
| Preceded by "Mud on the Tires" by Brad Paisley |
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number one single by Rascal Flatts February 12-March 12, 2005 |
Succeeded by "Nothin' To Lose" by Josh Gracin |
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