# Good Directions

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{{Infobox song
| name          = Good Directions
| cover         = 
| alt           = 
| type          = single
| artist        = [Billy Currington](/source/Billy_Currington)
| album         = [Doin' Somethin' Right](/source/Doin'_Somethin'_Right)
| released      = September 25, 2006
| recorded      = 2005
| studio        = 
| venue         = 
| genre         = [Country](/source/Country_music), [bluegrass](/source/Bluegrass_music)
| length        = 3:35
| label         = [Mercury Nashville](/source/Universal_Music_Group_Nashville)
| writer        = {{hlist|[Luke Bryan](/source/Luke_Bryan)|Rachel Thibodeau}}
| producer      = [Carson Chamberlain](/source/Carson_Chamberlain)
| prev_title    = [Why, Why, Why](/source/Why%2C_Why%2C_Why)
| prev_year     = 2006
| next_title    = Tangled Up
| next_year     = 2007
}}
"'''Good Directions'''" is a song written by [Luke Bryan](/source/Luke_Bryan) and Rachel Thibodeau and recorded by American [country music](/source/country_music) artist [Billy Currington](/source/Billy_Currington). It was released in September 2006 as the third and final single from Currington’s 2005 album ''[Doin' Somethin' Right](/source/Doin'_Somethin'_Right)''. The song became Currington’s second number one hit on the U.S. ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' [Hot Country Songs](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) chart and spent three weeks at that position.

==Content==
The song's narrator is a man who is selling [turnip](/source/turnip)s at a roadside stand. A beautiful woman pulls up in a car, asking the man for directions to an undisclosed [Interstate](/source/Interstate_highway), which the man then gives and suggests that woman stop by a little country store to try some of Miss Bell's sweet [tea](/source/tea). The man then regrets sending the woman away without even asking for her name. However, he later sees the woman return to his stand per the suggestion in the Miss Belle verse, who is revealed to be the narrator's mother ("When she stopped in and asked Miss Bell for some of her sweet tea, Mama gave her a big 'ol glass and sent her right back here to me"). Upon seeing the woman return, he says "Thank God for good directions and turnip greens."

This moderate tempo tune is set in the key of [F major](/source/F_major) with a chord progression of F-Am-B{{flat}}-C with Currington’s vocals ranging from C{{sub|3}}-F{{sub|4}}.<ref>[https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0086663 Billy Currington "Good Directions" Sheet Music]</ref>

==Other recordings==
Luke Bryan, who wrote the song, recorded the song as a bonus track to his debut studio album ''[I'll Stay Me](/source/I'll_Stay_Me)''.

==Chart performance==
"Good Directions" reached its peak of number one on the U.S. ''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'' [Hot Country Songs](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) chart for the week of May 26, 2007, and spent the next two weeks at that position.

{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (2006–2007)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Billy Currington|}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardhot100|42|artist=Billy Currington|}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcanadacountry|5|artist=Billy Currington|}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcanadianhot100|67|artist=Billy Currington|}}
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (2007)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
| US [Country Songs](/source/Hot_Country_Songs) (''[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine))'')<ref>{{Cite magazine | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2007/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 2007: Country Songs | magazine=[Billboard](/source/Billboard_(magazine)) | publisher=[Prometheus Global Media](/source/Prometheus_Global_Media) | date=2007| access-date=December 13, 2007}}</ref>
| align="center" | 2
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Good Directions''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Billy Currington|title=Good Directions|award=Platinum|number=4|type=single|relyear=2006|certyear=2024|access-date=May 20, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=true|noshipments=true}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Billy Currington}}
{{Luke Bryan}}

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Category:2005 songs
Category:2006 singles
Category:Billy Currington songs
Category:Luke Bryan songs
Category:Songs written by Luke Bryan
Category:Song recordings produced by Carson Chamberlain
Category:Mercury Nashville singles

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