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{{Infobox album
| name = Dusty Drake
| type = studio
| artist = [[Dusty Drake]]
| cover = drakealbum.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2003|6|3}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[country music|Country]]
| length =
| label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros. Nashville]]
| producer = Billy Crain<br />[[Paul Worley]]<br />Clarke Schleicher
}}
'''Dusty Drake''' is the debut studio album by American [[country music]] artist [[Dusty Drake]]. It is also his only studio album, having been released in 2003 via [[Warner Records]] Nashville. "And Then", "[[One Last Time (Dusty Drake song)|One Last Time]]", and "Smaller Pieces" were all released as singles.

==Content==
The album contains three singles: "And Then", "[[One Last Time (Dusty Drake song)|One Last Time]]", and "Smaller Pieces". All three made the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot Country Songs]] charts between 2002 and 2003, with "One Last Time" reaching number 26 in early 2003.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2017|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2017|page=113|isbn=978-0-89820-229-8}}</ref> "One Last Time" is a memorial to the passengers on the planes of [[9/11]].<ref>Sara E. Quay, Amy M. Damico ''September 11 in Popular Culture: A Guide'' 2010 p.296</ref>

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r643342|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Country Standard Time]]
| rev2Score = mixed<ref name="cst">[http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=3473 Country Standard Time review]</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''
| rev3Score = favorable<ref name="billboard">{{cite magazine|date=June 14, 2003|title=Reviews|magazine=Billboard|pages=39–40|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/00s/2003/BB-2003-06-14.pdf}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
Ray Waddell reviewed the album favorably in ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'', praising Drake's songwriting and the variety of tempos in the music. He also compared Drake's voice favorably to that of [[John Anderson (musician)|John Anderson]].<ref name="billboard"/> Writing for [[AllMusic]], [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] also described Drake as having "songwriting smarts", noting influences of both traditional country music and [[arena rock]]. He concluded his review by saying that "A taste for sentiment and silliness may keep this from being continually engaging, but at its best, ''Dusty Drake'' is tuneful, rocking, memorable modern country, beating [[Toby Keith]] at his own game", rating the album four out of five stars.<ref name="allmusic"/> [[Country Standard Time]] writer Stuart Munro was mixed, praising the lyrics of "Smaller Pieces" and "The Wish" while criticizing the same of "Too Wet to Plow" and "Ain't Nobody's Business". He described Drake's singing as "emotive" on "One Last Time", but added that the production "opts for a bombastic [[Southern rock]] or arena country sound...And Drake seems prone to mistake passion for singing at full throttle".<ref name="cst"/>

==Track listing==

{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| total length =

| title1 = Too Wet to Plow
| writer1 = Ron Harbin, [[Dusty Drake]], Jerry Vandiver
| length1 = 3:26

| title2 = Not Bad for a Good Ole Boy
| writer2 = Wayne Womack, Drake, Kerry Kurt Phillips
| length2 = 3:42

| title3 = Smaller Pieces
| writer3 = Harbin, Drake, Phillips
| length3 = 3:24

| title4 = [[One Last Time (Dusty Drake song)|One Last Time]]
| writer4 = Phillips, Patrick Jason Matthews
| length4 = 3:47

| title5 = Going on Eighteen
| writer5 = [[Michael P. Heeney]], [[Casey Beathard]]
| length5 = 4:31

| title6 = The Hard Way
| writer6 = [[Al Anderson (NRBQ)|Al Anderson]], [[Bob DiPiero]], [[Jeffrey Steele]]
| length6 = 4:31

| title7 = Just Can't Take a Train
| writer7 = [[Trey Bruce]]
| length7 = 5:14

| title8 = The Wish
| writer8 = Frank Highland, Aaron Sain, Drake
| length8 = 4:08

| title9 = And Then
| writer9 = Bob Feldman, Robert Vega, [[Ray Vega (singer)|Ray Vega]]
| length9 = 3:40

| title10 = Ain't Nobody's Business
| writer10 = [[Billy Crain]], Drake
| length10 = 3:55

| title11 = Radio
| writer11 = Greg Johnson, Drake
| length11 = 3:08
}}

==Personnel==
{{div col}}
*[[J. T. Corenflos]] – electric guitar
*[[Billy Crain]] – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion
*[[Melodie Crittenden]] – background vocals
*Ray "Chip" Davis – background vocals
*Dusty Drake – lead vocals, background vocals
*[[Dan Dugmore]] – [[steel guitar]]
*[[Stuart Duncan]] – [[fiddle]]
*[[Buddy Emmons]] – steel guitar
*[[Owen Hale]] – drums
*Camille Harrison – background vocals
*[[Aubrey Haynie]] – fiddle
*Gregory Hicks – background vocals
*Wes Hightower – background vocals
*Jim Hoke – [[penny whistle]]
*Troy Johnson – background vocals
*[[John Mock]] – penny whistle
*[[Greg Morrow]] – drums
*[[Gordon Mote]] – keyboards
*[[Steve Nathan]] – piano, [[Hammond organ|Hammond B-3 organ]], synthesizer, [[Wurlitzer electric piano|Wurlitzer]]
*Alison Prestwood – bass guitar
*[[Michael Rhodes (musician)|Michael Rhodes]] – bass guitar
*Tom Roady – percussion
*Scotty Sanders – steel guitar
*Russell Terrell – background vocals
*[[Biff Watson]] – acoustic guitar
*[[Glenn Worf]] – bass guitar
*Paul Worley – acoustic guitar
*[[Jonathan Yudkin]] – fiddle, [[violin]], [[viola]], [[cello]]
{{div col end}}

==Chart performance==
{| class="wikitable"
! Chart (2003)
! Peak<br />position
|-
| U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums<ref>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=dusty drake|chart=Country Albums C}}|title=Dusty Drake Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]]|access-date=August 18, 2011}}</ref>
| align="center"| 30
|-
| U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8A0EAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8A0EAAAAMBAJ/page/n4 6]|title=Billboard Heatseekers|date=June 21, 2003|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]]|access-date=August 18, 2011}}</ref>
| align="center"| 22
|}

==References==
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[[Category:2003 debut albums]]
[[Category:Dusty Drake albums]]
[[Category:Warner Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Paul Worley]]

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