"Friends in Low Places" | ||||
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Single by Garth Brooks | ||||
from the album No Fences | ||||
B-side | "Nobody Gets Off in This Town" | |||
Released | August 6, 1990 | |||
Recorded | 1990 | |||
Studio | Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Country[1] | |||
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Label | Capitol Nashville 44647 | |||
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Producer(s) | Allen Reynolds | |||
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"Friends in Low Places" |
"Friends in Low Places" is a song recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on August 6, 1990, as the lead single from his album No Fences. The song spent four weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs, and won both the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association awards for 1990 Single of the Year.
"Friends in Low Places" was written in 1989 by songwriters Earl Bud Lee and Dewayne Blackwell and first released by David Wayne Chamberlain in 1989.[2][3] The two songwriters had given the song to Brooks to record as a demo soon before the release of his self-titled first album, when he was a relatively unknown singer. Enamored with the song, Brooks recorded his version the next year. Mark Chesnutt recorded the song for his second album Too Cold at Home.