Good Directions

"Good Directions" is a song written by Luke Bryan and Rachel Thibodeau and recorded by American country music artist Billy Currington. It was released in September 2006 as the third and final single from Currington’s 2005 album Doin' Somethin' Right. The song became Currington’s second number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and spent three weeks at that position.

"Good Directions"
Single by Billy Currington
from the album Doin' Somethin' Right
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2006
Recorded2005
GenreCountry
Length3:35
LabelMercury Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Carson Chamberlain
Billy Currington singles chronology
"Why, Why, Why"
(2006)		 "Good Directions"
(2006)		 "Tangled Up"
(2007)

Content

The song's narrator is a man who is selling turnips at a roadside stand. A beautiful woman pulls up in a car, asking the man for directions to an undisclosed Interstate, which the man then gives and suggests that woman stop by a little country store to try some of Miss Belle's sweet tea. The man then regrets sending the woman away without even asking for her name. However, he later sees the woman return to his stand per the suggestion in the Miss Belle verse, who definitely wasn't his mother ("When she stopped in and asked Miss Bell for some of her sweet tea, Mama gave her a big 'ol glass and sent her right back here to me"). Upon seeing the woman return, he says "Thank God for good directions and turnip greens."

This moderate tempo tune is set in the key of F major with a tempo of approximately 120 beats per minute.[1]

Other recordings

Luke Bryan, who wrote the song, recorded the song as a bonus track to his debut studio album I'll Stay Me.

Chart performance

"Good Directions" debuted at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of October 21, 2006.

Chart (2006–07) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 42
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[4] 67

Year-end charts
Chart (2007) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 2

References
  1. Billy Currington "Good Directions" Sheet Music
  2. "Billy Currington Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. "Billy Currington Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. "Billy Currington Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
  5. "Best of 2007: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2007.
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