Lee brice i drive your truck
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Still, Alexander said, she and her songwriting team “had faith in him and his belief in the song.” So we were all for it.”Īt the time, Brice was a relatively new artist. We felt that people would really respond to him. “And we all felt great about it because of his singing ability, and the age group. And that ruled out a lot of people, even some big names.”Ī few weeks later, they heard that Lee Brice loved the song and wanted to cut it. “We wanted someone to sing it soulfully and with conviction. So, she said, the agreed they didn’t want to give the song to just anyone. It was, how do we get this out there so that the dad will hear it?” READ MORE: CPS CEO Martinez: Schools Will Be Open, But Classes To Be Cancelled If CTU Votes For Remote Learning “Typically every songwriter’s mission is to get a single - but for us, this was more than just a moneymaker. “We thought, how cool would it be if he ever heard this song on the radio.” It was that guy on the NPR report Harrington had heard, the dad who’d talked about driving his son’s truck. “And when it was over, there was just a communal prayer of, let’s make sure we get this to the right person to sing it.”Īnd their chief motivation for this wasn’t just that they knew they had a hit on their hands. “We all cried at some point” during the session, she said. They gave Yeary what they had so far on the song, and at the next session, Alexander said, when he arrived, “you could tell he had really taken his time and worked on it.” And when they finished it that day, she recalled, “we all looked at each other with amazement.” If we were going to write it for a male, I didn’t want to have that burden to write myself.” So she and Harrington “tossed out ideas,” and eventually Yeary’s name came up as the “perfect” choice. With that in mind, she said, “I didn’t want to be trusted with the melody. For this song, though, they felt they needed a male singer for it to work - and to find the audience it deserved.
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We have to get a guy in here.'”Īt that point as a songwriting team, Alexander explained, she and Harrington had together only written songs from a female point of view, and they’d never had one cut. If we write this as a female song it’ll never get cut. But just images.”Īt the end of that day, Alexander said, she told Harrington that “‘I feel like this song is too powerful for us to let go. I remember me saying the ’89 cents in the ashtray.’ Maybe it was 39 cents when we first started. “The shirt in the back … the dog tags … the Gatorade bottle. They spent that day “just throwing out images,” Alexander recalled. “She couldn’t even say it - she couldn’t say ‘I drive his truck.’ She was like, ‘no, I don’t want to do it today.’ And I was like, ‘oh yeah we are!’ I pulled it out of her.” And anybody who writes with Connie knows that when she’s crying, you’re onto something great.”īut even describing the idea was difficult. “So she literally pulled off the side of the road and started to jot down as much as she could remember of what he said.”ĭuring a songwriting session soon after, Harrington and Alexander were tossing around ideas, “and she said, ‘well I have this one.’ And she started to cry. “Connie being the daughter of a POW, this just really hit home,” said another of the song’s writers, Jessi Alexander, during a recent conversation with. How was he going to commemorate his son during Memorial Day? He answered that he was simply going to drive his truck. She was listening to NPR, and the reporter was interviewing a man whose son was a soldier who had died in Afghanistan. The story of the song began one Memorial Day weekend a few years back, when writer Connie Harrington was visiting family. Brice has also been nominated as Male Vocalist of the Year. Now the song is up for Single of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year at the 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards. Initially released on his 2012 album Hard 2 Love, “I Drive Your Truck” became Brice’s third single in a row from that album to reach No. “It slayed me,” Brice told, describing the first time he heard the song. READ MORE: Chicago Weather: Bitter Cold Going Into Wednesday, Expect Drifting Snow And to pull it off, to make it work, they also knew they needed to find the right type of singer. When the songwriting team of Connie Harrington, Jessi Alexander and Jimmy Yeary finished “I Drive Your Truck,” they knew this wasn’t an ordinary song.