Crickets is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Joe Nichols, released on October 8, 2013 by Red Bow Records. It includes a cover of Merle Haggard's "Footlights". This album sold 12,330 albums its first week. Mickey Jack Cones produced the entire album, co-producing with Tony Brown on "Yeah" and "Billy Graham's Bible", and Derek George on all other tracks. Crickets is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Joe Nichols, released on October 8, 2013 by Red Bow Records. It includes a cover of Merle Haggard's "Footlights". This album sold 12,330 albums its first week. Mickey Jack Cones produced the entire album, co-producing with Tony Brown on "Yeah" and "Billy Graham's Bible", and Derek George on all other tracks. false 2025-02-01 06:03:11 Crickets 8 2013 2013-10-08 2013-10-08 54 Country 124432 2184118 cc093c37-cfd0-4636-ae3c-6f9017d99405 e45692e4-69f6-4493-888b-7ab89d21d0a4 2cc437f5-aef5-4787-bf35-75dc2f9e77df /media/data/media4/Music/Joe Nichols/Crickets/folder.jpg Joe Nichols Joe Nichols 1 1 Just Let Me Fall In Love With You 03:52 1 2 Hard To Be Cool 03:04 1 3 Baby You're In Love With Me 02:49 1 4 Yeah 03:48 1 5 Billy Graham's Bible 03:04 1 6 Better Than Beautiful 03:36 1 7 Gotta Love It 03:09 1 8 Sunny And 75 03:25 1 9 Y'ant To 02:50 1 10 Hee Haw 02:30 1 11 Love Has A Way 03:36 1 12 Smile On Mine 02:41 1 13 Open Up A Can 03:10 1 14 Old School Country Song 04:43 1 15 Footlights 04:12 1 16 Crickets 03:29 Joseph Edward Nichols (born November 26, 1976) is an American country music artist. Between 1996 and 2001, he held recording contracts with the Intersound and Giant labels. In 2002, he signed with Universal South Records, now known as Show Dog-Universal Music. Nichols began his career with The Rodeo Band, playing in high school gymnasiums and small clubs. Throughout the course of his career, Nichols has released nine studio albums: Joe Nichols (1996), Man with a Memory (2002), Revelation, A Traditional Christmas (both 2004), III (2005), Real Things (2007), Old Things New (2009), Crickets (2013), and Never Gets Old (2017). These albums have produced over 14 Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including the Number One singles "Brokenheartsville", "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", "Gimmie That Girl", "Sunny and 75", and the RIAA GOLD-certified single "Yeah", as well as five other Top 10 entries. In October 2012, Nichols signed to Red Bow, a new partnership of Broken Bow Records and RED Distribution.