Dallas Davidson

Some of these songs from back in that part of your career, do you remember actually sitting in a room?

I remember me and Dallas Davidson sitting in the room, working on it.

The cool thing about that song is, um- We grew up with a guy that always would toast his whiskey drink going, "Cheers, boys.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey." And, and he did...

And, like, Body Like a Back Road.

And, now, Play It Again didn't get there, but it kinda crossed over, and I think it did open me up to a younger audience, and I just think the story of the song is perfectly done.

The bridge, you know, Dallas and Ashley, uh, Gorley, Dallas Davidson and Ashley wrote it.

They didn't have the bridge in it.

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I remember me and Dallas Davidson sitting in the room working on it.

The cool thing about that song, we grew up with a guy that always would toast his whiskey drink going, "Cheers, boys.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey." And he didn't...

Some of these songs from back in that part of your career, do you remember actually sitting in a room?

I remember me and Dallas Davidson sitting in the room working on it.

The cool thing about that song is, um, we grew up with a guy that always would toast his whiskey drink, going, "Cheers, boys.

Rain makes corn.

And now, Play It Again didn't get there, but it kinda crossed over, and I think it did open me up to a younger audience.

And I just think the story of the song is perfectly done.

The bridge, you know, Dallas and Ashley, uh, Gorley, Dallas Davidson and Ashley wrote it.

They didn't have the bridge in it.

And at the moment, I didn't even know what it was, but I just knew.

And so I called Rob and I called Dallas and said, hey, I need to write a song.

Let's go write.

I went to Dallas's house actually on his back porch.

And we just fell into this thing.

And I started thinking about it.

Yeah, I had that title written down for a while and I knew the song was going to be a tribute to Brooks and Don, Pave Them Red Dirt Roads.

and, and, uh, it was right with Dallas Davidson and he had an idea that was not that, but it was something about, you know, the nostalgic, like, man, they, they, they built this where we used to do this, you know, and, and that idea for me, I'm passionate about because where I live in Pleasant Valley, there's one flashing light and one store where my granddaddies used to go play dominoes in the morning before work.

And I never want to see that place change.

And, So people that grew up in a rural place, and especially me, as much as I travel, going home, it means so much to see things and that familiarity of what it was like when I was a kid.