Play Something Country

Infobox Single
Name = Play Something Country


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Artist = Brooks & Dunn
from Album = Hillbilly Deluxe
Released = 2005
Format = CD single
Digital download
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:14
Label = Arista Nashville
Writer = Ronnie Dunn
Terry McBride
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Certification = Gold (U.S.)
Last single = "It's Getting Better All the Time"
(2005)
This single = "Play Something Country"
(2005)
Next single = "Believe"
(2005)"Play Something Country" is a single by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. Released in 2005, it was the first single from their 2005 album "Hillbilly Deluxe"; in September of that year, the song reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts, becoming the twentieth Number One hit of the duo's career.

Content

"Play Something Country" is an up-tempo song backed by electric guitar and a horn section. Its lyrics are the narrator's description of a female character who wants to hear country music, as stated in the chorus:

:"Crank up the band, play the steel guitar:"Hank it up a little, let's rock this bar:"Threw back a shot, yelled 'I'm a George Strait junkie':"Ah oooh, aw, play something country"

The idea came to Ronnie Dunn, one half of the duo, after a show in Minnesota; according to Terry McBride (formerly of McBride & the Ride), who plays bass guitar in Brooks & Dunn's road band, Dunn "comes busting onto the bus and says, 'how about this idea?' and he howls that "ah oooh, aw, play something country!". cite journal |last=Horner |first=Marianne |date=2005-10-10 |title=Story Behind the Song | journal=Country Weekly |volume=12 |issue=21 |pages=70 |accessdate=2008-06-03] Inspired by Gretchen Wilson, with whom they had been touring, McBride and Dunn decided to base the song's central character on Wilson's rough image, creating a "ballsy chick that bursts into the barroom, puts her hand on her hip... and goes, 'play something country!'". After McBride told Wilson that she was the inspiration for "Play Something Country", Wilson replied that she loved the song.

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