Now, Connie has written a new song about another truck - her late brother's. They had just finished a job and he — most men that do that job are kind of wild-child, black sheep type, you know.
They ride motorcycles. They do dangerous things already. On her brother's wish for her to write a song about him. And I said 'well, of course, you know, let's you and I get together and you tell me more details about it than I am privy to, and I'd be happy to. And he was in Van Wert, Ohio, and we never got the chance to have that little sit down.
On learning shortly after his death that there would be a movie about linemen. Like, right after the funeral, it's one of my best friends who worked for another publishing company here in Nashville, Juli Griffith from Magic Mustang, and we rarely ever go to lunch. It gained sufficient airplay to debut on the Country Airplay and eventually reached No. It also peaked at No. He even asked God why, but nothing ever made him feel close to his brother like driving his truck did.
I roll every window down, and I burn up every back road in this town. I find a field. The first time Brice heard the song, it absolutely broke him down that he had to listen to it over and over again.
Indeed, the lyrics are intense enough to make even a grown man cry, but the poignant ballad only becomes more of a tearjerker when you learn that a real-life situation inspired it.
The reporter was interviewing a father remembering his son — Army Sgt. The late soldier was only thirty years old when he was killed in action in The father went on revealing his simple reasons for driving the truck his son left behind. JA: I knew percent it wasn't a girl song He just nailed it, and I'll never forget the feeling of when it was done. The prayer that came over all of us, like "please let this song just be heard" so one day that guy could hear that song.
CH: Well, I didn't catch his name in the interview, so we didn't know who it was. I called NPR and did all of this searching. Curb Records tried to find him.
It was two weeks before the No. And we didn't know that Jared his son had won the Medal of Honor. I didn't catch that in the interview. Anyway, we cold-called him, all together laughs.
It was crazy. JA: It's hard to even explain because it felt like, after so much searching, it was something that was never going to happen. To find him, it's like this full-circle moment, and I really don't have words.
It had to be part of his healing journey to know that his story touched so many people. JA: A lot of people talk to us about the song. I had people that thought it was about a wife or their grandfather.
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