"A House with No Curtains" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

. It was the sixth single from his 1996 album Everything I Love

Everything I Love

Everything I Love is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on October 29, 1996 and produced six singles for Jackson on the Hot Country Songs charts: the Number One hits "Little Bitty" and "There Goes", Top Ten hits in the title track, "Between the...

, and was released to radio in January 1998. The song had previously been the b-side to the album's fourth single, "There Goes

There Goes

"There Goes" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Alan Jackson. It was released in July 1997 as the fourth single from his album, Everything I Love...

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Content

The song is about a couple that stays together even though they are not happy. They still pretend that they are doing fine together for others to see, but everyone knows that it isn't working out between them.

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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, in his review of the album, called the song "a classic honky tonk

Honky tonk

A honky-tonk is a type of bar that provides musical entertainment to its patrons...

 ballad[…]worthy of early George Jones

George Jones

George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....

". An uncredited review from Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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called the song "a gem of a country-gothic composition."

Chart performance

"A House with No Curtains" spent fifteen weeks on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

chart and peaked at number 18. >

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	14