"Red Dirt Road" is a song written and recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn.

In 2019, Brooks & Dunn re-recorded "Red Dirt Road" with American country music artist Cody Johnson for their album Reboot.

[2] In the midst of recording their latest studio effort, Dunn proposed Red Dirt Road as its title, given his desire to "reel everything into a concept".

[3] After a flight to Sacramento, California for their next concert, Dunn shared the song’s chorus to Brooks, written on a cocktail napkin.

Both agreed it was a promising start, and boarded their respective buses and continued writing, with Brooks roughing out the verses and music.

The song opens its central guitar riff, followed by its first verse where Dunn sets the scene: a small community off of Rural Route Three, which he would traverse to church and back.

In an interview, Dunn revealed these details were entirely autobiographical: he came up on the real Rural Route Three, a four-mile stretch east of El Dorado.

In the tune’s final verse, it is revealed the narrator left his hometown to see the world, and lost his relationship with Mary along the way, but they have reconciled.