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Steam
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This article is about water as a gas. For the video game digital distribution platform, see Steam (software). For other uses, see Steam (disambiguation).
Liquid phase eruption of Castle Geyser in Yellowstone Park
A temperature-versus-entropy diagram for steam
A Mollier enthalpy-versus-entropy diagram for steam
Steam is water in the gas phase, which is formed when water boils. Steam is invisible; however, "steam" often refers to wet steam, the visible mist or aerosol of water droplets formed as this water vapour condenses. At lower pressures, such as in the upper atmosphere or at the top of high mountains, water boils at a lower temperature than the nominal 100 °C (212 °F) at standard pressure. If heated further it becomes superheated steam.
The enthalpy of vaporization is the energy required to turn water into the gaseous form when it increases in volume by 1,700 times at standard temperature and pressure; this change in volume can be converted into mechanical work by steam engines such as reciprocating piston type engines and steam turbines, which are a sub-group of steam engines. Piston type steam engines played a central role to the Industrial Revolution and modern steam turbines are used to generate more than 80% of the world's electricity. If liquid water comes in contact with a very hot surface or depressurizes quickly below its vapor pressure, it can create a steam explosion.
Contents
1 Types of steam and conversions
2 Uses
2.1 Agricultural
2.2 Domestic
2.3 Electricity generation (and cogeneration)
2.4 Energy storage
2.5 Lifting gas
2.6 Mechanical effort
2.7 Sterilization
2.8 Steam in piping
2.9 Wood treatment
2.10 Concrete treatment
2.11 Cleaning
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Types of steam and conversions[edit]
Steam is traditionally created by heating a boiler via burning coal and other fuels, but it is also possible to create steam with solar energy.[1][2][3] Water vapor that includes water droplets is described as wet steam. As wet steam is heated further, the droplets evaporate, and at a high enough temperature (which depends on the pressure) all of the water evaporates and the system is in vapor–liquid equilibrium.[4]
Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its boiling point for the pressure, which only occurs where all liquid water has evaporated or has been removed from the system.[5]
Steam tables [6] contain thermodynamic data for water/steam and are often used by engineers and scientists in design and operation of equipment where thermodynamic cycles involving steam are used. Additionally, thermodynamic phase diagrams for water/steam, such as a temperature-entropy diagram or a Mollier diagram shown in this article, may be useful. Steam charts are also used for analysing thermodynamic cycles.
enthalpy-entropy (h-s) diagram for steam pressure-enthalpy (p-h) diagram for steam temperature-entropy (T-s) diagram for steam
Uses[edit]
Agricultural[edit]
In agriculture, steam is used for soil sterilization to avoid the use of harmful chemical agents and increase soil health.
Domestic[edit]
Steam's capacity to transfer heat is also used in the home: for cooking vegetables, steam cleaning of fabric, carpets and flooring, and for heating buildings. In each case, water is heated in a boiler, and the steam carries the energy to a target object. Steam is also used in ironing clothes to add enough humidity with the heat to take wrinkles out and put intentional creases into the clothing.
Electricity generation (and cogeneration)[edit]
About 90% of all electricity is generated using steam as the working fluid, nearly all by steam turbines.[7]
In electric generation, steam is typically condensed at the end of its expansion cycle, and returned to the boiler for re-use. However, in cogeneration, steam is piped into buildings through a district heating system to provide heat energy after its use in the electric generation cycle. The world's biggest steam generation system is the New York City steam system, which pumps steam into 100,000 buildings in Manhattan from seven cogeneration plants.[8]
Energy storage[edit]
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Fireless steam locomotive
Despite the resemblance to a boiler, note the lack of a chimney and also how the cylinders are at the cab end, not the chimney end.
In other industrial applications steam is used for energy storage, which is introduced and extracted by heat transfer, usually through pipes. Steam is a capacious reservoir for thermal energy because of water's high heat of vaporization.
Fireless steam locomotives were steam locomotives that operated from a supply of steam stored on board in a large tank resembling a conventional locomotive's boiler. This tank was filled by process steam, as is available in many sorts of large factory, such as paper mills. The locomotive's propulsion used pistons and connecting rods, as for a typical steam locomotive. These locomotives were mostly used in places where there was a risk of fire from a boiler's firebox, but were also used in factories that simply had a plentiful supply of steam to spare.
Lifting gas[edit]
Owing to its low molecular mass, steam is an effective lifting gas, providing approximately 60% as much lift as helium and twice as much as hot air. It is not flammable, unlike hydrogen, and is cheap and abundant, unlike helium. The required heat, however, leads to condensation problems and requires an insulated envelope. These factors have limited its use thus far to mostly demonstration projects.[9]
Mechanical effort[edit]
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Steam engines and steam turbines use the expansion of steam to drive a piston or turbine to perform mechanical work. The ability to return condensed steam as water-liquid to the boiler at high pressure with relatively little expenditure of pumping power is important. Condensation of steam to water often occurs at the low-pressure end of a steam turbine, since this maximizes the energy efficiency, but such wet-steam conditions must be limited to avoid excessive turbine blade erosion. Engineers use an idealised thermodynamic cycle, the Rankine cycle, to model the behavior of steam engines. Steam turbines are often used in the production of electricity.
Sterilization[edit]
An autoclave, which uses steam under pressure, is used in microbiology laboratories and similar environments for sterilization.
Steam, especially dry (highly superheated) steam, may be used for antimicrobial cleaning even to the levels of sterilization. Steam is a non-toxic antimicrobial agent.[10] [11]
Steam in piping[edit]
Steam is used in piping for utility lines. It is also used in jacketing and tracing of piping to maintain the uniform temperature in pipelines and vessels.[citation needed]
Wood treatment[edit]
Steam is used in the process of wood bending, killing insects and increasing plasticity.[citation needed]
Concrete treatment[edit]
Steam is used to accentuate drying especially in prefabricates.[citation needed] Care should be taken since concrete produces heat during hydration and additional heat from the steam could be detrimental to hardening reaction processes of the concrete.[citation needed]
Cleaning[edit]
Used in cleaning of fibers and other materials, sometimes in preparation for painting. Steam is also useful in melting hardened grease and oil residues, so it is useful in cleaning kitchen floors and equipment and internal combustion engines and parts. Among the advantages of using steam versus a hot water spray are the facts that steam can operate at higher temperatures and it uses substantially less water per minute.[12]
See also[edit]
Electrification
Food steamer or steam cooker
Geyser—geothermally-generated steam
IAPWS—an association that maintains international-standard correlations for the thermodynamic properties of steam, including IAPWS-IF97 (for use in industrial simulation and modelling) and IAPWS-95 (a general purpose and scientific correlation).
Industrial Revolution
Live steam
Mass production
Nuclear power—and power plants use steam to generate electricity
Oxyhydrogen
Psychrometrics—moist air/vapor mixtures, humidity and air conditioning
Steam locomotive
Steamed
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Taylor, Robert A.; Phelan, Patrick E.; Adrian, Ronald J.; Gunawan, Andrey; Otanicar, Todd P. (2012). "Characterization of light-induced, volumetric steam generation in nanofluids". International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 56: 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2012.01.012.
Jump up ^ Taylor, Robert A.; Phelan, Patrick E.; Otanicar, Todd P.; Walker, Chad A.; Nguyen, Monica; Trimble, Steven; Prasher, Ravi (2011). "Applicability of nanofluids in high flux solar collectors". Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 3 (2): 023104. doi:10.1063/1.3571565.
Jump up ^ Taylor, Robert A.; Phelan, Patrick E.; Otanicar, Todd; Adrian, Ronald J.; Prasher, Ravi S. (2009). "Vapor generation in a nanoparticle liquid suspension using a focused, continuous laser". Applied Physics Letters. 95 (16): 161907. Bibcode:2009ApPhL..95p1907T. doi:10.1063/1.3250174.
Jump up ^ Singh, R Paul (2001). Introduction to Food Engineering. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-646384-2. [page needed]
Jump up ^ "Superheated Steam". Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
Jump up ^ Malhotra, Ashok (2012). Steam Property Tables: Thermodynamic and Transport Properties. ISBN 978-1-479-23026-6. [page needed]
Jump up ^ Wiser, Wendell H. (2000). "Energy Source Contributions to Electric Power Generation". Energy resources: occurrence, production, conversion, use. Birkhäuser. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-387-98744-6.
Jump up ^ Bevelhymer, Carl (November 10, 2003). "Steam". Gotham Gazette.
Jump up ^ "Steam Balloon JBFA Article". [self-published source?]
Jump up ^ EP Patent Publication 2,091,572
Jump up ^ Song, Liyan; Wu, Jianfeng; Xi, Chuanwu (2012). "Biofilms on environmental surfaces: Evaluation of the disinfection efficacy of a novel steam vapor system". American Journal of Infection Control. 40 (10): 926–30. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2011.11.013. PMID 22418602.
Jump up ^ "Why Steam?". Sioux Corporation Website. Sioux Corporation. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
External links[edit]
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Wikiversity has steam tables with figures and Matlab code
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Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)
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"Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
Single by Alan Jackson
from the album Drive
B-side
"Drive (For Daddy Gene)"
Released
November 26, 2001
Format
Promo-only CD single; 7"
Recorded
November 7, 2001 (live)
Genre
Country
Length
5:05 (studio version)
5:47 (live version)
Label
Arista Nashville 69129
Songwriter(s)
Alan Jackson
Producer(s)
Keith Stegall
Alan Jackson singles chronology
"It's Alright to Be a Redneck"
(2001) "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
(2001) "Drive (For Daddy Gene)"
(2002)
"It's Alright to Be a Redneck"
(2001) "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
(2001) "Drive (For Daddy Gene)"
(2002)
"Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" is a song written by the American singer-songwriter Alan Jackson. It was the lead single from his tenth studio album, Drive (2002), released on Arista Nashville. The song's lyrics center on reactions to the September 11 attacks in the United States, written in the form of questions. Jackson desired to write a song capturing the emotions surrounding the attacks, but found it difficult to do so.
He debuted the song publicly at the Country Music Association's annual awards show on November 7, 2001. It was released that month as a single and topped the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for five weeks; in addition, it reached number 28 on Billboard's all-genre Hot 100 chart. The song received largely positive reviews from critics, who appreciated its simple, largely apolitical stance. The song won multiple awards at the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Awards, including Song of the Year, and also earned Jackson his first Grammy Award for Best Country Song.
Contents
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1 Background
2 Composition
3 Promotion
4 Reception
4.1 Commercial
4.2 Critical
4.3 Accolades
5 Cover versions
6 Charts
6.1 Year-end charts
7 Track listings
8 See also
9 Notes
9.1 References
Background[edit]
The song was written after the September 11 attacks.
The song is based on the September 11 attacks, a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on September 11, 2001. Jackson had finished walking outside and returned indoors to discover news of the attacks on television. He immediately wanted to write a song expressing his thoughts and emotions, but he found it hard to do so for many weeks. "I didn't want to write a patriotic song," Jackson said. "And I didn't want it to be vengeful, either. But I didn't want to forget about how I felt and how I knew other people felt that day."[1]
Finally, on the Sunday morning of October 28, 2001, he woke up at 4 a.m. with the melody, opening lines, and chorus going through his mind. He hastily got out of bed, still in his underwear, and sang them into a hand-held digital recorder so he would not forget them.[1][2][3] Later that morning, when his wife and children had gone to Sunday school, he sat down in his study and completed the lyrics.[1][4]
Initially, he felt squeamish about recording it, much less releasing it, because he disliked the idea of capitalizing on a tragedy.[5] But after he played it for his wife Denise and for his producer, Keith Stegall, and it met with their approval, Jackson went into the studio to record "Where Were You" that week.[6] On Stegall's advice, Jackson played the finished track for a group of executives at his record label. "We just kind of looked at one another," RCA Label Group chairman Joe Galante said later. "Nobody spoke for a full minute."[3]
Composition[edit]
The verses focus on others' reactions in the form of questions. One verse asks, "Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow?/Go out and buy you a gun?/Did you turn off that violent old movie you're watchin'/And turn on I Love Lucy reruns?" In between, he asks about the locations of people when the tragedy played out, "Were you in the yard with your wife and children?/Or workin' on some stage in LA?" In the chorus, Jackson tries to sum up his own feelings, first by calling himself merely "a singer of simple songs", and "not a real political man", and finally by paraphrasing the Biblical New Testament's first letter of Paul to the Corinthians, chapter 13, verse 13: "Faith, hope and love are some good things He gave us/And the greatest is love."
The song is in the key of C major with a vocal range of A3-C5 and a primary chord pattern of C-G.[7]
Promotion[edit]
Jackson was scheduled to perform at the Country Music Association's annual awards ceremony on November 7, 2001, to be aired on CBS. Originally, he planned to perform "Where I Come From",[8] which at the time was the number 1 hit on the Billboard country charts.[9] But mere days before the awards show, Jackson's manager, Nancy Russell, played a recording of "Where Were You" for four of the CMA's top executives. All four were crying by the time the song ended.[8]
The day before the show, CMT had a brief note on its web site that Jackson would be introducing the new song during the awards telecast.[10] The next night, after an introduction from the show's host, Vince Gill, Jackson performed "Where Were You" seated on a stool, with an orchestra and backing singers behind him. At the conclusion of the five-minute-long song, the audience gave him an immediate standing ovation. This performance, along with the Vince Gill introduction, is used as the song's music video.
Reception[edit]
Commercial[edit]
Jackson performing the song at the Pentagon in 2002.
The next morning, many stations already were playing Jackson's new song after taping it from the broadcast.[3] Several pop-oriented stations, including one in New York, started to play it as well.[3] Based almost entirely on that unsolicited airplay, "Where Were You" debuted at number 25 on the Billboard country chart the week ending November 24, 2001, the highest debut since "The Thunder Rolls" by Garth Brooks debuted at number 19 in 1991.[11] A week later, with Arista finally having serviced a promotional single to radio, it jumped to number 12. On the December 29 country singles chart, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" was the number 1 song. It had taken only six weeks to get there, the fastest rise to the top in four years.[12] The song spent five weeks at the top,[9] and it also became a Top 40 pop hit, peaking at number 28.[13] At the time, it was Jackson's biggest country and pop hit.[14]
Jackson's record label determined that it could not manufacture a commercial single fast enough to meet demand.[3] Instead, Arista pushed up the release date for the new album, Drive, from May to January 15.[3] Arista also chose to include both the studio version and the live CMA Awards version on the new album. The pent-up demand for "Where Were You" helped propel the album to the top of both the Billboard country and pop album charts, becoming Jackson's first number 1 on the main album chart. It spent five weeks at the top.
The song was never sold as a benefit song, and it is unknown if proceeds from the song's success were contributed to 9/11-related benefit organizations. Management for Jackson only claimed at the time of the song release that Jackson "has no official ties to any nonprofit group," and he preferred "to make his donations privately."[15]
As of September 2015, the song has sold 395,000 digital copies in the United States.[16]
Critical[edit]
"I've always been real careful about writing or recording 'preachy' songs, and I didn’t want it to look like I was taking advantage of the situation for my own career or something. I never wanted it to come across that way."
—Alan Jackson on his reservations for the song, 2002[4]
Critical response to the single was positive. Deborah Evans Price (with Billboard) remarked "A multitude of songs have been written and recorded in the wake of September 11, but none captures the myriad emotions unleashed by the terrorist attacks on an unsuspecting nation more perfectly than Jackson's eloquent ballad".[17] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the All Music Guide remarked, "Given the enormity of the subject-- it's simply not something that can be summarized in song-- it's a surprisingly effective and moving tune".[18] Jackson's reaction to "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" was this: "I think it was Hank Williams who said, 'God writes the songs, I just hold the pen.' That's the way I felt with this song."[3] He considered the song's success personally overwhelming and uncomfortable due to its subject matter.[4]
After the song's success, Jim Bessman of Billboard summarized its impact: "Deeply personal and self-effacingly simple, [the song] struck a chord with poignant, understatedly eloquent contemplations and a basic, overriding "love is the answer" theme."[19] Dan Milliken of Country Universe rated the song number 7 on his list of the 201 Greatest Singles of the Decade. He stated that the song "cannot travel forward into the future the way other songs on this countdown can; its full impact will remain locked in the memories of those of us who lived through September 11th, 2001, and will never be experienced quite so deeply ever again." [20] Rolling Stone ranked it among the 40 "Saddest Country Songs" at number 11, with a reviewer claiming, "Jackson's heartfelt expression of stunned helplessness encapsulated the American collective consciousness perfectly."[21] Georgia Rep. Mac Collins entered the lyrics into the U.S. Congressional Record, citing the song as "an example of how all Americans can help heal our nation from the wounds we suffered on that tragic day."[4]
Nevertheless, there were negative reactions to the song. Some of the song’s lyrics, particularly "I watch CNN but I’m not sure I could tell you/The difference in Iraq and Iran" drew criticism. Bessman wrote that these passages "inadvertently point out our dangerously widespread ignorance of the rest of the world."[19] The song was mocked in "A Ladder to Heaven", a 2002 episode of the American animated television series South Park. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, disliked the song; Stone later said in the episode's audio commentary that he felt Jackson was "cashing in on the sentimentality of [remembering the 9/11 attacks]."[22]
Accolades[edit]
Later in 2002, "Where Were You" won both the Academy of Country Music and CMA honors for "Song of the Year" and "Single of the Year". In 2003, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" earned Jackson his first Grammy Award, for "Best Country Song". It was also nominated in the overall "Song of the Year" category, a rarity for a pure country song, but it lost to "Don't Know Why", written by Jesse Harris and a hit for Norah Jones.[23] It was also ranked 28th on CMT's list of the "100 Greatest Country Songs".[24]
Cover versions[edit]
Country singer Scotty McCreery covered the song while on the tenth season of American Idol. He would later win the season.
Charts[edit]
Chart (2001–02)
Peak
position
US Hot Country Singles & Tracks (Billboard)[25]
1
US Billboard Hot 100[26]
28
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2002)
Position
US Hot Country Singles & Tracks (Billboard)[27]
24
Track listings[edit]
US promotional CD single Arista Nashville 69118
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) 4:58
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) 4:58
(same version appears twice)
US 7-inch single Arista Nashville 69129
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) 5:05
Drive (For Daddy Gene) 4:03
See also[edit]
"Have You Forgotten"
"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)"
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c Owen, Linda (January–February 2003). "Story Behind the Song: "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"". Today's Christian. Archived from the original on 2007-05-10. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ Willman, Chris (March 15, 2002). "Cat in the Hat (part 1)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Mansfield, Brian (November 21, 2001). "Inspiration awakens Jackson to country hit". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
^ Jump up to: a b c d Neal, Chris (January 22, 2002). "Alan Jackson: Reluctant Hero". Country Weekly. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
Jump up ^ Grossberg, Josh (November 6, 2002). "Jackson Dominates CMAs". E! Online. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Alan Jackson finds balance in his "World"". CMT.com. January 16, 2002. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "'Where Were You' sheet music". musicnotes.com. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b Willman, Chris (March 15, 2002). "Cat in the Hat (part 2)". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
^ Jump up to: a b Whitburn, Joel (2005). Top Country Songs 1944 to 2005. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 620. ISBN 0-89820-165-9.
Jump up ^ "Jackson to Premiere New Song at CMA Awards". CMT.com. November 6, 2001. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Shania (Twain) in the News Archives". Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Alan Jackson earns fastest #1 of any country artist in 4 years". ThatsCountry.com. December 18, 2001. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Pop Singles 1955-2002. Menomonee Falls, Wis.: Record Research. p. 341. ISBN 0-89820-155-1.
Jump up ^ Mansfield, Brian (September 6, 2002). "Country music, in 9/11 time". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "How much money went to 9/11 charities?". Entertainment Weekly. March 28, 2002. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
Jump up ^ Bjorke, Matt (September 22, 2015). "Top 30 Digital Country Singles: September 22, 2015". Roughstock. Sale figure given here
Jump up ^ Price, Deborah Evans (2001-12-29), "The Eloquent 'Drive' of Artista's Jackson". Billboard. 113 (52/1):5
Jump up ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r567069
^ Jump up to: a b Bessman, Jim (February 1, 2003). "Words & Music". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 115 (5): 45. ISSN 0006-2510.
Jump up ^ The 201 Greatest Singles of the Decade Part 5
Jump up ^ "40 Saddest Country Songs — Alan Jackson, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"". Rolling Stone. September 26, 2014. Retrieved August 30, 2015.
Jump up ^ Stone, Matt (October 2005). South Park: The Complete Sixth Season: "A Ladder to Heaven" (Audio commentary)|format= requires |url= (help) (DVD). Paramount Home Entertainment.
Jump up ^ "Grammy Awards: Song of the Year". Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "CMT's 100 Greatest Country Songs and 1st on CMT's 40 Greatest Songs of the Decade.". Retrieved 2007-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Billboard Hot Country Songs for Alan Jackson".
Jump up ^ "Alan Jackson – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Alan Jackson.
Jump up ^ "Best of 2002: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2002. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
Preceded by
"I Wanna Talk About Me"
by Toby Keith Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single
December 29, 2001-January 26, 2002 Succeeded by
"Good Morning Beautiful"
by Steve Holy
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Alan Jackson singles
Here in the Real World
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"Here in the Real World"
"Wanted"
"Chasin' That Neon Rainbow"
"I'd Love You All Over Again"
Don't Rock the Jukebox
"Don't Rock the Jukebox"
"Someday"
"Dallas"
"Midnight in Montgomery"
"Love's Got a Hold on You"
A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love)
"She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)"
"Tonight I Climbed the Wall"
"Chattahoochee"
"Mercury Blues"
"(Who Says) You Can't Have It All"
Who I Am
"Summertime Blues"
"Livin' on Love"
"Gone Country"
"Song for the Life"
"I Don't Even Know Your Name"
The Greatest Hits Collection
"Tall, Tall Trees"
"I'll Try"
"Home"
Everything I Love
"Little Bitty"
"Everything I Love"
"Who's Cheatin' Who"
"There Goes"
"Between the Devil and Me"
"A House with No Curtains"
High Mileage
"I'll Go On Loving You"
"Right on the Money"
"Gone Crazy"
"Little Man"
Under the Influence
"Pop a Top"
"The Blues Man"
"It Must Be Love"
When Somebody Loves You
"www.memory"
"When Somebody Loves You"
"Where I Come From"
"It's Alright to Be a Redneck"
Drive
"Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)"
"Drive (For Daddy Gene)"
"Work in Progress"
"That'd Be Alright"
Greatest Hits Volume II
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (w/ Jimmy Buffett)
"Remember When"
What I Do
"Too Much of a Good Thing"
"Monday Morning Church"
"The Talkin' Song Repair Blues"
"USA Today"
Like Red on a Rose
"Like Red on a Rose"
"A Woman's Love"
Good Time
"Small Town Southern Man"
"Good Time"
"Country Boy"
"Sissy's Song"
"I Still Like Bologna"
Freight Train
"It's Just That Way"
"Hard Hat and a Hammer"
34 Number Ones
"Ring of Fire"
Thirty Miles West
"Long Way to Go"
"So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore"
"You Go Your Way"
Angels and Alcohol
"Jim and Jack and Hank"
"The One You're Waiting On"
Other songs
"Tequila Sunrise"
"Good Year for the Roses" (w/ George Jones)
"Redneck Games" (w/ Jeff Foxworthy)
"Margaritaville" (w/ Jimmy Buffett)
"Murder on Music Row" (w/ George Strait)
"Designated Drinker" (w/ George Strait)
"Hey, Good Lookin'" (w/ Jimmy Buffett, Clint Black, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith and George Strait)
"You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie" (w/ The Bellamy Brothers)
"Barefootin'" (w/ Jimmy Buffett)
"As She's Walking Away" (w/ Zac Brown Band)
"A Million Ways to Die"
See also
Singles discography
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