Gonna Listen to the Highway Song

i almost gave up really. But then an event 4 years later changed my life completely. my wife was caught a very bad infection in her stomach and it nearly killed her. So after that night at jackson hospital in montgomery al, and after that trip up to uab hospital in birmingham al, that event produced a song that nearly killed me, but saved my life. and after that lonely 85 mile trip up there and after my wife was admitted with serious liver failure and in critical condition, i had the most haunting lyrics id ever written come out of my head and a gut wrenching, powerful song came forth when the staff made me leave that hospital after telling me that my wife of 6 years would be dead in 12-24 hours from acute liver failure and brain ammonia toxicity: The Highway Song

That drive home was the worst ever. i cried. i prayed. i cried some more. i lashed out at god for allowing this to happen. i beat that steering wheel senseless as the tears stained that cover on it. between the tears, my old truck with an oil leak, and the tornado warnings all around me, i thought was gonna die. i was hurt. i was scared. but most of all i was unbelievably numb. as i drove down i-65 to montgomery, all i could do was listen to the hum of the wheels turning down that interstate. that hum. wait, that. hum. that highway song. it was then that i began to pull a chorus from all of this pain. And as i did that, i recorded it on my voice recorder from my phone.

"so i'll listen to the highway song, of the road im driving on tonight. maybe i will finally get some rest, whoa and i'll listen to the rollin wheels tears covering the steering wheel tonight. and ill realize that i have done my best, listen to the highway song."

So as i got near Clanton AL my truck began to sputter and i looked down in horror as i noticed that the gas gauge was on fumes. You wanna talk about fear? prayer? buddy i was scared. praying i had enough in my account to get some gas and get home to my empty apartment in montgomery, i pulled up to that closed gas station in thorsby al and i put in half a tank. crisis averted. something remarkable happened though. the rain stopped for a minute, in fact just long enough for me to get home to that empty apartment on ann st. tired, alone, scared, and desperate for answers i just sat there in the once again pouring rain right outside of that apartment. i cried some more. i was broken. my eyes hurt. my head hurt. my heart hurt. even my soul hurt. so i dragged my broken self into that apartment room and plopped down on that couch with my head in my hands sobbing now, begging for a miracle. man i quaked. i cried so hard that i literally shook. i was a mess. i was spent. mentally, physically, spiritually just spent. so i did what any songwriter would do. i turned my prayer into a song. i turned my nightmare into a song. i turned those tears, fear, shame and pain into a song. and boy if i had've known what i had in my hands at the time. i knew it was special, but how special? not even close. so i called up my friend Kim from Jersey and i told her about it. she went absolutely insane about it, called it lyrical gold, an instant hit. so there ya go, that song was born. I formed it, wrote about all of the events as they played out there in birmingham al and there in montgomery al, and i put them to paper and titled it my first taste of song success in nashville:

"Highway Song"

So i took that song and i played with it incorporating the musical styles of both brantley gilbert and jason aldean and matching it with a music beat i found on youtube called "Moving Forward" found on sinima beats.com and boom! highway Song was born. so i saved up my money and bought that instrumental, and then saved up more and went to atmosphere recording studio here in montgomery and i laid the main and background vocals to this prolific new song. and once i did, i shared it literally everywhere. good thing i did too.