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If we write this as a female song it’ll never get cut.

But just images.”Īt the end of that day, Alexander said, she told Harrington that “‘I feel like this song is too powerful for us to let go. I remember me saying the ’89 cents in the ashtray.’ Maybe it was 39 cents when we first started. “The shirt in the back … the dog tags … the Gatorade bottle. They spent that day “just throwing out images,” Alexander recalled. “She couldn’t even say it - she couldn’t say ‘I drive his truck.’ She was like, ‘no, I don’t want to do it today.’ And I was like, ‘oh yeah we are!’ I pulled it out of her.” And anybody who writes with Connie knows that when she’s crying, you’re onto something great.”īut even describing the idea was difficult. “So she literally pulled off the side of the road and started to jot down as much as she could remember of what he said.”ĭuring a songwriting session soon after, Harrington and Alexander were tossing around ideas, “and she said, ‘well I have this one.’ And she started to cry.

“Connie being the daughter of a POW, this just really hit home,” said another of the song’s writers, Jessi Alexander, during a recent conversation with. How was he going to commemorate his son during Memorial Day? He answered that he was simply going to drive his truck. She was listening to NPR, and the reporter was interviewing a man whose son was a soldier who had died in Afghanistan. The story of the song began one Memorial Day weekend a few years back, when writer Connie Harrington was visiting family. Brice has also been nominated as Male Vocalist of the Year. Now the song is up for Single of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year at the 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards. Initially released on his 2012 album Hard 2 Love, “I Drive Your Truck” became Brice’s third single in a row from that album to reach No. “It slayed me,” Brice told, describing the first time he heard the song. READ MORE: Apostolic Faith Church Hosting Christmas Gift, Coat Giveaway Friday And to pull it off, to make it work, they also knew they needed to find the right type of singer. When the songwriting team of Connie Harrington, Jessi Alexander and Jimmy Yeary finished “I Drive Your Truck,” they knew this wasn’t an ordinary song.