Side Note: If you haven’t checked out Drive Me Wild, which hit in 1999, do so if only for “I’m In Love With Her.” The ballad, written by Chuck and Cannon and Allen Shamblin, is one of the band’s finest moments on record. But Six Days On The Road is a bit better than good.
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There’s nothing to jump out of your skin over, though, with brings the album down a notch. The music is in no way traditional, yet it isn’t overwhelming poppy or rock either. Six Days on the Road is a nice, above average mid-1990s country album. “Between You and Paradise, which Springer co-wrote with Neal Coty, is a very strong traditional-leaning ballad. “Talkin’ ‘Bout You,” by Mark Alan Springer, is a wonderfully infectious mid-tempo ballad laced with nice flourishes of steel. The track is a nice and tender acoustic ballad. “The Nebraska Song,” which Miller wrote alone, is a tribute to Bill Berringer, quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers who was killed in a 1996 plane crash. “Transistor Rodeo,” “Half A Heart,” “A Love Like This” and “Every Twist and Turn” are unmistakable of their era and very catchy. Neither song quite measures up to McAnally’s high standard with the group, which if we’re being honest is an impossible bar to reach.įive more tracks were either written or co-written by Miller. “With This Ring” is a tender love song while “Night and Day” is uptempo with generic rockish production.
McAnally had two solely written songs on the album. A fourth and final single, “Small Talk,” a Miller and McAnally co-written dud, hit #60. The wonderful “Another Side,” a ballad solely penned by Miller petered out at #55. The final two singles weren’t as successful. I also really liked their version of this song, as well. They rose to #6 with another cover, “This Night Won’t Last Forever,” previously a hit for both Bill LaBounty and Michael Johnson. Their version, which I would regard as very good, peaked at #13. The lead single was the title track, a cover of the 1963 Dave Dudley classic.
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The album was their second to last to be produced by Mac McAnally, who had significant influence over the project. Sawyer Brown was nearing the end of their hitmaking days when Six Days on the Road dropped twenty years ago this month.
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