Roughstock recently sat down with The Cadillac Three's frontman and hit songwriter Jaren Johnston (pictured middle, above) to talk about the inspiration behind their band's current single blazing up the charts, "The South."
"I sat down and wrote it by myself," Johnston tells Roughstock. "I think I had just sat down and watched a Zepplin DVD. I basically wanted to write something that would affect kids today like 'Sweet Home Alabama' affected me the first time I heard it. It's a real epic, Southern, classic song. That's what my idea for what I wanted 'The South' to be. I wanted it to cover parts of our lives, as far as being from the south and traveling and doing shows down there, but also us going to the north and then at the end of the chorus, inviting everybody to come on down [to the South]!
"It's been cool," he adds of the song's success at radio. "Everybody seems to be liking it. We've been going all over the country, and everybody's starting to play it, so that's exciting for a new band in Nashville."
Read the lyrics to "The South" from The Cadillac Three here.
Watch the music video for "The South from The Cadillac Three here.
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