I’ll be eternally grateful to them for that.”Ī few weeks ago, the soulful stylist experienced his first CMA Awards as a nominee, being included in the New Artist of the Year category. “It was difficult, but country radio could not be cooler for doing that – playing it – a lot – for 57 weeks. Then, there was the rise of his breakthrough single, “Love Like Crazy,” which climbed the chart for over a year. That’s the hardest thing is being gone so much.”īrice’s career has been filled with a lot of emotion - from watching as Garth Brooks made history by taking his song “More Than A Memory” to the apex of the charts - in it’s very first week. Truthfully, that’s where my ‘Hard To Love’ comes from. It’s directly about my fiancee, my little boy, and being gone so much. He did an amazing job on it, and I have a feeling that people are just going to be really moved by it.”Īnother song on the album that he feels strongly about is “One More Day,” a track that he says he knows very well.
Signed to Curb Records' Asylum-Curb division since 2007, Brice has released four singles to country radio, all four of which have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. “Since it was so personal to me, I asked my brother to be the actual actor, the ‘star’ of the video. Lee Brice (born Jin Sumter, South Carolina) is an American country music artist. “It became a personal song to me the very first time that I heard it, and I thought about my granddaddy, and what I would like to do with the video,” he says. I Drive Your Truck came from a true story.
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“And this song was a chance for me to dig into my soul.Brice has just finished a video for the song, and he says it’s a family affair. Full and accurate LYRICS for I Drive Your Truck from Lee Brice: I drive your truck, I roll every window down, And I burn up, Every back road in this. The story behind Lee Brices 2013 hit is so powerful its hard for its songwriters to discuss without getting choked up. And I’d see the coins in the ashtray and his tool belt in the back seat.”įilling in the blanks on the rest of the ballad, Alexander said, felt like a cosmic thing was happening. I would get in it as a child just to play. Signed to Curb Records Asylum-Curb division since 2007, Brice has released four singles to country radio, all four of which have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. “Because my grandmother was so grief-stricken by my granddaddy’s death when I was ten, that she left his truck parked at our Jackson, Tennessee house. Lee Brice (born Jin Sumter, South Carolina) is an American country music artist. But when Connie tells me the title, I had a lightning bolt go through my body. I just happen to be in the songwriting room, even though I don’t want to be there because I’m pregnant with twins and it’s hot.
“Connie writes that idea on a Post-it note, and then divine intervention happens. “Here’s where it gets heavy,” she told me. Then when Harrington shared that inkling of an idea with Alexander, things got real real fast. “And he said, ’I don’t know what else to do but drive his truck.'” “Connie Harrington was driving and listening to NPR - which shows you mind of songwriter - and she heard an interviewer ask a man who had lost his son in Afghanistan what he was going to do that day to honor his son,” Alexander said. In 2014, “I Drive Your Truck” won the Academy of Country Music Award for song of the year, which is awarded to the songwriters, Jessi Alexander, Connie Harrington, and Jimmy Yeary.Īnd when I caught up with Alexander recently, she told me the full-length version of the story behind that song. Because that’s the lyric that opens the song, and immediately paints a picture of heartbreak so vividly. Before I knew the name of Lee Brice’s “I Drive Your Truck,” I just thought of it as the 89-cents-in-the-ashtray song.