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I Drive Your Truck - Lee Brice Lyrics - YouTube | i drive your truckWhen the songwriting aggregation of Connie Harrington, Jessi Alexander and Jimmy Yeary accomplished “I Drive Your Truck,” they knew this wasn’t an accustomed song. It wasn’t alike an accustomed hit song. It was article actually special. And to cull it off, to accomplish it work, they additionally knew they bare to acquisition the appropriate blazon of singer.
They begin that accompanist in Lee Brice.
“It slayed me,” Brice told Radio.com, anecdotic the aboriginal time he heard the song. “I anon fell in adulation with it.”
Initially appear on his 2012 anthology Hard 2 Love, “I Drive Your Truck” became Brice’s third distinct in a row from that anthology to adeptness No. 1. Now the song is up for Distinct of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year at the 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards. Brice has additionally been nominated as Macho Vocalist of the Year.
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The adventure of the song began one Memorial Day weekend a few years back, aback biographer Connie Harrington was visiting family. She was alert to NPR, and the anchorman was interviewing a man whose son was a soldier who had died in Afghanistan. How was he activity to admire his son during Memorial Day? He answered that he was artlessly activity to drive his truck.
“Connie actuality the babe of a POW, this aloof actually hit home,” said addition of the song’s writers, Jessi Alexander, during a contempo chat with Radio.com. “So she actually pulled off the ancillary of the alley and started to jot bottomward as abundant as she could bethink of what he said.”
During a songwriting affair anon after, Harrington and Alexander were casting about ideas, “and she said, ‘well I accept this one.’ And she started to cry. And anybody who writes with Connie knows that aback she’s crying, you’re assimilate article great.”
But alike anecdotic the abstraction was difficult. “She couldn’t alike say it — she couldn’t say ‘I drive his truck.’ She was like, ‘no, I don’t appetite to do it today.’ And I was like, ‘oh yeah we are!’ I pulled it out of her.”
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I Drive Your Truck - Wikipedia | i drive your truckThey spent that day “just throwing out images,” Alexander recalled. “The shirt in the aback … the dog tags … the Gatorade bottle. I bethink me adage the ’89 cents in the ashtray.’ Maybe it was 39 cents aback we aboriginal started. But aloof images.”
At the end of that day, Alexander said, she told Harrington that “‘I feel like this song is too able for us to let go. If we address this as a changeable song it’ll never get cut. We accept to get a guy in here.'”
At that point as a songwriting team, Alexander explained, she and Harrington had calm alone accounting songs from a changeable point of view, and they’d never had one cut. For this song, though, they acquainted they bare a macho accompanist for it to assignment — and to acquisition the admirers it deserved.
With that in mind, she said, “I didn’t appetite to be trusted with the melody. If we were activity to address it for a male, I didn’t appetite to accept that accountability to address [the music] myself.” So she and Harrington “tossed out ideas,” and eventually Yeary’s name came up as the “perfect” choice.
They gave Yeary what they had so far on the song, and at the abutting session, Alexander said, aback he arrived, “you could acquaint he had actually taken his time and formed on it.” And aback they accomplished it that day, she recalled, “we all looked at anniversary added with amazement.”
“We all cried at some point” during the session, she said. “And aback it was over, there was aloof a common adoration of, let’s accomplish abiding we get this to the appropriate actuality to sing it.”
And their arch action for this wasn’t aloof that they knew they had a hit on their hands. It was that guy on the NPR address Harrington had heard, the dad who’d talked about active his son’s truck. “We thought, how air-conditioned would it be if he anytime heard this song on the radio.”
“Typically every songwriter’s mission is to get a distinct — but for us, this was added than aloof a moneymaker. It was, how do we get this out there so that the dad will apprehend it?”
So, she said, the agreed they didn’t appetite to accord the song to aloof anyone. “We capital addition to sing it soulfully and with conviction. And that disqualified out a lot of people, alike some big names.”
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I Drive Your Truck' Takes Home CMA for Best Song of the Year | The ... | i drive your truckA few weeks later, they heard that Lee Brice admired the song and capital to cut it. “And we all acquainted abundant about it because of his singing ability, and the age accumulation [of his audience]. We acquainted that bodies would actually acknowledge to him. And he’s such a abundant storyteller. So we were all for it.”
At the time, Brice was a almost new artist. Still, Alexander said, she and her songwriting aggregation “had acceptance in him and his acceptance in the song.”
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Brice, for his part, was artlessly addled that he was actuality offered such a gem.
“I was activity to a angle meeting,” he told Radio.com, “and I was attractive for uptempo, fun songs. I admired a brace of them, but afresh one of the publishers said, ‘can we comedy you a song if it’s not uptempo? We anticipate it’s a song of the year.’ And I said, ‘well yeah! Comedy it for me!’ They started arena me this demo, they didn’t acquaint me annihilation about it. And I listened, and the actual aboriginal time it hit that chorus, ‘I drive your truck,’ I absent it. Appropriate there in advanced of like seven altered publishes.”
“So it slayed me, addled me. And I anon anticipation about my grandaddy. It wasn’t alike about his aggressive side, it was aloof about him — a dairy farmer, active his barter around.”
Because it resonated so alone for him on that aboriginal listen, Brice knew it would for others, too. “Obviously it wasn’t my story,” he said, “I aloof acquainted like it was. And I knew everybody abroad in the accomplished apple would feel that way. So I was like, ‘look, if you’re austere about casting me this song, it’s article that I will booty actual seriously.'”
And, again, he was surprised he was alike actuality offered the song.
“When they played it for me, I was like, ‘So, why are ya’ll arena me that song?’ Don’t comedy me that song if I can’t cut it! C’mon!'”
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I Drive Your Truck Lee Brice Lyrics Video - YouTube | i drive your truckAs Brice explained, though, the writers told him they acquainted he could do the song justice. “And I said, ‘absolutely.’ So I was actual accurate about how I advised it.”
But alleviative it in a “careful” manner, he said, wasn’t difficult. “It was actual accustomed for me. That’s my affectionate of singing, that’s my heart.”
The song was appear to radio in December of 2012, and it hit No. 1 four months later.
“They wrote it to the wall, man,” Brice said of Harrington, Alexander and Yeary. “They wrote it actually perfectly.”
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Oh, and that ancestor who aggressive the song? His name is Paul Monti, and yes he did apprehend it. He alike flew to Nashville to appear the No. 1 affair for the song.
“Your adolescent is your future, and aback you’ve absent your child, you’ve absent your future,” Monti told NPR. “And I anticipate one of the affidavit so abounding Gold Star parents drive their children’s trucks is ‘cuz they accept to authority on. They aloof accept to authority on.”
The 49th anniversary ACM Awards air alive from Las Vegas on Sunday, April 6 at 8pm ET/PT on CBS.
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