Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic is a 2005 (see 2005 in music

2005 in music

-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...

) album by country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Clint Black

Clint Black

Clint Patrick Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country...

. He describes it as a "barroom, honky-tonk kind of album" with songs "about drinking, good for drinking, or written while drinking". The tracks "Rainbow in the Rain", "Code of the West", "Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic" and "Heartaches' were all released as singles. Kimberly Roads and Jimi Westbrook of the group Little Big Town

Little Big Town

Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet's musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all...

 are featured on this album as background vocalists.

Track listing

All songs written by Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas

Hayden Nicholas

James Hayden Nicholas is a country guitarist and songwriter.Nicholas grew up in the Houston, Texas area, where he taught himself to play guitar at age nine. In the early 1980s, he was briefly member of the band Revolver, headlined by Tim McCrary, which played extensively in Texas...

 except where noted.

1. "Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic" (Black, Nicholas, Steve Wariner
   Steve Wariner
   Steven Noel "Steve" Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records...
   
   ) – 3:17
2. "Heartaches" (Black) – 3:26
3. "Code of the West" – 3:43
4. "Rainbow in the Rain" – 2:22
5. "Undercover Cowboy" (Black) – 3:48
6. "Go It Alone" – 3:31
7. "Too Much Rock" – 3:01
8. "A Big One" (Black, Tim Nichols
   Tim Nichols
   Tim Nichols Tim Nichols Tim Nichols (born in Portsmouth, Virginia is an American country music singer and songwriter. Active since the late 1980s, Nichols has written for several country music singers, including Keith Whitley, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jo Dee Messina, and Alan Jackson...
   
   ) – 2:57
9. "I Don't Wanna Tell You" – 3:12
10. "Back Home in Heaven" – 3:35
11. "Thinkin' of You" (Black) – 3:07
12. "Longnecks and Rednecks" – 3:02

Band

• Clint Black—acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , background vocals
  Backing vocalist
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  , bass harp
• Dane Bryant—piano
  Piano
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  , background vocals, Fender Rhodes
• Dick Gay—drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Hayden Nicholas—electric guitar, baritone guitar
  Baritone guitar
  The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...
  
  
• Jeff Peterson—Dobro
  Dobro
  Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...
  
  , steel guitar
  Steel guitar
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• Steve Real—background vocals
• Kimberly Roads—background vocals
• Steve Wariner—electric guitar
• Jimi Westbrook—background vocals
• Jake Willemain—bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Martin Young—acoustic guitar

Production

• Clint Black—producer
  Record producer
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• Zack Berry—production coordinator
  Production coordinator
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• Ricky Cobble—engineer, mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
  In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
  
  
• Ray Rogers—engineering support
• Steve Lockhart—technical support
• Hank Williams—mastering

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2005	Top Country Albums	36
2005	Top Independent Albums	22

Singles

Year	Song	US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
2005	"Rainbow In the Rain"	44
2005	"Code of the West"	—
2006	"Drinkin' Songs and Other Logic"	54
2006	"Heartaches"	—