Where We Grew Up (Commentary)

I gotta tell ya, it sounds pretty good to hear Thomas singing

Over some fiddle, and steel guitar on his "Country Again (Side A)" album

And you know, he says it's more about a state of mind

Than it is a lifestyle necessarily, but whatever it is I love the sound of this album so far

And the next song I'd love for you to tell us about Thomas Is "Where We Grew Up"

Which definitely has a bit of nostalgic feel to it

"Where We Grew Up" was written with two of my really good friends

Luke Laird and Josh Miller

And uh, it was really one of the first co-writes that I'd had in person

In a very long time, most of my writes over quarantine were over Zoom

And-and so Luke and Josh came over to the house

And I remember Josh started playing this thing

And he was like, "Man, I wrote this verse and chorus

That I don't know if y'all are gonna like or not"

And he started singing the first verse and the chorus

And me and Luke were like "Dang"

Like those are those awesome, easy days

Where you go in and somebody's already got the bones of something complete

And we just, me and Luke, just kinda help craft the second verse and the bridge

And it just reminded me so much of the town that I grew up in

And how proud you are looking back at the place you grew up

Because when you leave you're kinda like "I never wanna go back there

I never wanna- I'm gonna leave that place in the past"

And then when you start to get a little bit older, you look back at it and you go

"Dang, that place shaped me" that-that place made me, you know the person that I am today

The things I believe in and stand for, the values that I have

And you know, I haven't done anything musically like that since probably my first record

It kinda reminded me of "It Goes Like This" a little bit

Um, in just the production element of it

So um, that was a really fun day, just to kinda get in person with writers again

And to come out with something that you actually record on your record

You know, I'll never forget that day

Well, this is it, "Where We Grew Up"

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