Alabama
This song is not on one of our records. But we are very proud of the way it turned out. This song was written for and submitted to the movie Heaven’s Fall. The movie is the true story of nine African Americans wrongly convicted and imprisoned for assaulting a white woman on a train in [...]

Third Little Word
This song addresses those ‘three little words’. It makes a humorous, yet accurate, observation that the most important word in the phrase is the last one. Everyday we all use the first two words in the phrase to describe things we’re fond of…pizza, beer, baseball, etc. It’s the third word, ‘you’, that gives [...]

The First to Know
This is a very personal song that came from Eric’s experience as a single person looking for that one special person. Everyone always asks, “Is this the one…what do you think?” Eric’s response has always been the same… “If I knew, I wouldn’t tell you first…She’ll be The First to Know”. This [...]

One of Those Days
This song was inspired by the loss of our mother, Bonnie, to cancer (you can read a bit about that in the “About” section of this website). Although it is about a person who is terminally ill with cancer, it is very much a song about living. She lived every day to [...]

That’s Gonna Be You
Just as She Brings Me Down is a father/daughter song, this is a father/son tune. This song addresses the common experience of most boys. At some point, when they’re young, Dad is Superman. Just a few short years later, he couldn’t be more uncool, or easier to dislike. And then one day, [...]

The inspiration for this story comes from Chris’ (then three year old) daughter, Bonnie Nicole.
It’s written from the perspective of an everyday, average Dad who sometimes gets lost in his own routine, who from time to time needs a subtle reminder of what’s really important in life. Nicole never seems to care if he’s [...]

This song is based on a true story—the lives of our co-writer Randy Barber’s grandparents. We did take certain liberties to make the story flow. His grandparents were actually married in the back of a department store on a Friday night, after closing time. That is such a great part of the story that it [...]

Wanda’s Song
This was the first song we wrote when we moved to Nashville. It took a long time to write, many sessions, many hours. We didn’t have a very concrete idea for the story when we started. It started out with the hook “If that is all you see, then you don’t see me”, basically [...]

Love’s Gone South
This song started out with Chris’s hook ‘Love’s Gone South’ and his idea that the girl had moved south, leaving her guy behind. The literal and figurative interpretation of “gone south” seemed like a good thing to work with…It took some time to come up with the idea that the couple had taken [...]