Tight Rope

Tight Rope
Studio album by Brooks & Dunn
Released	September 21, 1999
Genre	Country
Length	47:06
Label	Arista Nashville
Producer	Kix Brooks Don Cook Ronnie Dunn Byron Gallimore
Brooks & Dunn chronology
Super Hits (1999) Tight Rope (1999) Steers & Stripes (2001) Alternative Cover Re-release with title printed on cover

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Tight Rope is the sixth studio album by country 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 Top Ten on the country charts. The album's lead-off single was a cover of John Waite's 1984 single "Missing You". This cover peaked at #15 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Following it were the #19 "Beer Thirty" and the #5 "You'll Always Be Loved by Me". "Goin' Under Gettin' Over You" also reached #60 from unsolicited play as an album cut. None of the songs from this album are included on the duo's 2004 compilation The Greatest Hits Collection II.

Track listing

1. "Goin' Under Gettin' Over You" (Ronnie Dunn, Terry McBride) – 2:56
2. "Missing You" (John Waite, Mark Leonard, Charles Sandford) – 3:47
3. "Temptation #9" (Kix Brooks, Bob DiPiero) – 3:32
4. "Hurt Train" (Dunn, McBride) – 4:04
5. "Can't Stop My Heart" (Brooks, Chris Waters, Tom Shapiro) – 4:19
6. "Too Far This Time" (Dunn) – 3:30
7. "You'll Always Be Loved by Me" (Dunn, McBride) – 3:02
8. "I Love You More" (Brooks, DiPiero) – 3:21
9. "Beer Thirty" (Dunn, McBride) – 2:37
10. "Don't Look Back Now" (Brooks, Don Cook) – 3:52
11. "All Out Of Love" (Dunn, McBride) – 4:09
12. "The Trouble with Angels" (Brooks, DiPiero) – 4:12
13. "Texas and Norma Jean" (Brooks, Lewis Anderson) – 3:51

Chart performance

Album

Singles

Personnel

Brooks & Dunn

• Kix Brooks - lead and background vocals
• Ronnie Dunn - lead and background vocals

Musicians

• Robert Bailey - background vocals
• Bruce C. 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 - steel guitar
• Rob Hajacos - fiddle, assorted hoedown tools
• Vicki Hampton - background vocals
• Aubrey Haynie - fiddle
• John Barlow Jarvis - piano, keyboards, 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)

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