Riley Green’s Acoustic Rendition Of Billy Currington’s “Good Directions” Is The Best Thing You’ll Watch All Day


One of my favorite covers Riley Green does.

He’s kept Billy Currington’s “Good Directions” in rotation with a medley that also includes Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” Toby Keith’s “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” and Alabama’s “Dixieland Delight,” along with a few others, at his live shows for quite some time now, and it never gets old.

Riley has the perfect, pure country voice for a song like this, and he did a fantastic acoustic cover for his CMT Campfire Sessions recently that I can’t get enough of.

Riley shares stripped-back, classic, 90’s, and early 2000’s country covers pretty often on his Instagram page, and I’ve always been partial to hearing him in that kind of setting. And obviously, it’s exactly what I love so much about this cover, in addition to some of the added instruments that give it a really full, yet beautifully simple, sound.

“Good Directions” was written by now-superstar Luke Bryan and Rachel Thibodeau and released in September of 2006 as the third and final single from Currington’s 2005 album Doin’ Somethin’ Right. It ultimately became his second #1 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, spending three weeks at that position.

It has since been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA, and has remained a fan-favorite in Currington’s catalog for going on 20 years now… and honestly, I think it remains easily one of the best songs he’s recorded to this day.

There’s just somethin’ about Riley’s rendition, though… do yourself a favor and check it out:

“Good Directions”


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