Introduction
Brooks & Dunn’s Cowboy Town, released October 2, 2007, stands as their tenth studio album on Arista Nashville and marked a stylistic pivot in their career toward a blend of country and rock-and‑roll elements . The album included four Top 20 singles: “Proud of the House We Built,” “God Must Be Busy,” “Put a Girl in It,” and “Cowgirls Don’t Cry,” and opened at No. 13 on the Billboard albums chart with roughly 68,900 copies sold in its first week .
While the title track “Cowboy Town” was not issued as an official single, it embodies the album’s wide‑open spirit: a celebration of Western identity, perseverance, and the cowboy mythos. The album also features “The Ballad of Jerry Jeff Walker,” a homage to Texas honky‑tonk roots, co-written by Kix Brooks and Bob DiPiero, with the legendary Jerry Jeff Walker guest‑vocaling his own recollections of those early days .
Shortly after release, Brooks & Dunn recorded a Clear Channel Stripped rendition of tracks, including “Cowboy Town,” in 2007. These stripped-down performances—done live for Clear Channel’s acoustic‑style radio sessions—offer a more intimate, raw take on the album’s songs, focusing on vocal delivery and minimal instrumentation. While mainstream reviews emphasize the full-production studio versions, the stripped sessions later circulated online and on platforms (Apple Music, TIDAL) in 2021 and beyond as part of retrospective video releases under “Clear Channel Stripped 2007”.
That provides a factual account of the song and its context within the Cowboy Town album, as well as the nature of its Clear Channel Stripped 2007 version—based solely on verified sources. Let me know if you’d like further expansion or focus on any aspect!