Rivers Rutherford

Rivers Rutherford (born Melvern Rivers Rutherford, II) is an American country music songwriter. Active since the mid-1990s as a songwriter, he has penned several Number One country hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by Brooks & Dunn, which was the Number One country song of 2001 according to Billboard. Among the other Number Ones that he has composed are "If You Ever Stop Loving Me" by Montgomery Gentry, "When I Get Where I'm Going" by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton, "Real Good Man" by Tim McGraw, "Living in Fast Forward" by Kenny Chesney, "Ladies Love Country Boys" by Trace Adkins, and "These Are My People" by Rodney Atkins.^[2] He has also released a solo CD called Just Another Coaster.

List of singles composed by Rivers Rutherford

The following is a list of Top 40 country singles co-written by Rivers Rutherford.

• Trace Adkins – "Ladies Love Country Boys"
• Gary Allan – "Man of Me"
• Gary Allan – "Smoke Rings in the Dark"
• Rodney Atkins – "These Are My People", "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"
• Brooks & Dunn – "Ain't Nothing 'bout You"
• Tracy Byrd with Mark Chesnutt – "A Good Way to Get on My Bad Side"
• Jason Michael Carroll – "I Can Sleep When I'm Dead"
• Kenny Chesney – "Living in Fast Forward"
• Terri Clark – "Dirty Girl"
• Clay Davidson – "Unconditional"
• Cole Deggs & the Lonesome - "I Got More"
• Emerson Drive - "Belongs to You"
• Montgomery Gentry – "If You Ever Stop Loving Me", "She Don't Tell Me To"
• Josh Gracin – "I Want to Live"
• Andy Griggs – "Tonight I Wanna Be Your Man"
• Faith Hill – "When the Lights Go Down"
• Jamey Johnson — "Heartache"
• Toby Keith - "Bullets in the Gun"
• Tracy Lawrence – "It's All How You Look at It"
• Tim McGraw – "Real Good Man"
• Brad Paisley (with Dolly Parton) – "When I Get Where I'm Going"
• Blake Shelton – "Heavy Liftin'"
• Clay Walker – "Jesus Was a Country Boy"
• Chuck Wicks – "Stealing Cinderella"
• Gretchen Wilson – "Homewrecker", "One of the Boys"
• Chely Wright – "Shut Up and Drive"

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