Hit songwriter Luke Laird is back with another smash on his hands with the latest release from Eric Church titled "Give Me Back My Hometown." Laird co-wrote the song with Church, and reveals to Roughstock the inspiration behind the day they wrote the song.
"We wrote it last year," Laird tells Roughstock. "It was in March. He went up to his cabin in North Carolina, which he did before the last record, too. He stays out there for probably a month or two and just writes songs. He has different writers come out there and write with him. I went up there and we wrote five songs in two or three days. That was one of them. He had that idea, and he already knew that he wanted to write a song called 'Give Me Back My Hometown.' I just thought it was a great idea, so we went from there.
"He is literally one of the best writers I've ever written with," continues Laird. "If he weren't an artist, he would probably be in town just writing songs for other people. He always has really good ideas. Obviously for him as an artist, he knows exactly what he wants to say. As a writer going into that situation, that's always a good feeling, knowing that it's not all going to fall on your shoulders. I always go in there with some ideas, but he's going to have all of his ideas, too. It's always fun working with him. Here we are a few months later, and we're hearing it on the radio."
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But what is the song about