''Sweet Southern Sugar'' is the eleventh studio album by American recording artist

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. It was released on November 3, 2017, by

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, Top Dog Records and

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. The album spawned four singles: "Po-Dunk", "Greatest Show on Earth", "Tennessee Mountain Top", and "American Rock 'n Roll", along with their music videos. Its lead single, "Po-Dunk", peaked at number 27 on the

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. "Greatest Show on Earth" peaked at number 16 on the

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chart and it was used as the main theme for

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pay-per-view

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. "Tennessee Mountain Top" peaked at number 36 on the Hot Country Songs. ''Sweet Southern Sugar'' is Kid Rock's first album since his self-titled 2003 album not to feature a title track, though the album's name comes from a lyric in "Tennessee Mountain Top". The album also features a cover of the

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song "

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", titled "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch". The songs "Back to the Otherside" and "Grandpa's Jam" feature a return to the rapping vocals of Rock's earlier work.

Commercial performance

''Sweet Southern Sugar'' debuted at number eight on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and number four on the US ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums with 43,000

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s, with almost all of that figure (41,000) coming from pure album sales. It has sold 184,600 copies in the United States as of April 2019.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Personnel

listed inside the booklet from the album:

Kid Rock

* Robert James Ritchie Sr. - drum programming, drums, acoustic guitar, keyboards,

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, background vocals, B3 Organ, turntables

Additional personnel

Backing vocalists

* Herschel Boone - background vocals * Danny Rader - background vocals * Joey Hyde - background vocals * Shannon Curfman - background vocals * Aaron Eshuis - background vocals * Stacy Michelle - background vocals * Kristen Rogers - background vocals * Morgan Hebert - background vocals * Stephcynie Curry - background vocals

Drummers

* Jerry Roe *

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* John “Rook” Cappelletty

Others

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- tambourine, turntables * Jimmie Bones -

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, background vocals * Marlon Young - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar * Mike E. Clark - drum programming, producer

Guitarists

* Gordy Quist - electric guitar * Adam Shoenfeld - electric guitar * Nathan Young - electric guitar * Jason Krause - electric guitar * Derek Wells - electric guitar * Rob McNelley - electric guitar

Pianists

* Tim Lauer - piano, keyboards, mellotron, synth,

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, strings (string machine) * Justin Niebank - piano, synth * Jim "Moose" Brown -

, B3 Organ * Dave Cohen -

, B3 Organ, keyboards, synths

Bassists

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* Tony Lucido - bass guitar * Aaron Julison - bass guitar

References

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