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1. Pretty Good At Drinkin' BeerBilly Currington |
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2. Don'tBilly Currington |
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3. People Are CrazyBilly Currington |
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4. Must Be Doin' Somethin' RightBilly Currington |
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5. Good DirectionsBilly Currington |
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6. I Got A Feelin'Billy Currington |
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7. Walk A Little StraighterBilly Currington |
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BILLY CURRINGTON FEATURE -Country Weekly
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Two Guys Having Fun Equals a Hit
By Marianne Horner
August 31, 2009
When songwriter Troy Jones sat down to write with legendary tunesmith Bobby Braddock a few years back, an unexpected wave of emotion swept over him. “Bobby was one of my songwriting heroes,” Troy says, his voice thick with reverence. “I remember looking over at him and thinking, ‘I’m writing with Bobby Braddock!’” He gives a little laugh. “It was surreal.”
Troy, who wrote Kenny Chesney’s No. 2 hit “Shiftwork,” had a song title in mind when he sat down across from Bobby that day. “I had this germ of an idea. Riding down the road one day, I thought, ‘What are the three things you can’t argue with? Well, God is great...beer is good—and people are crazy!’ I thought, what if Bobby didn’t like the idea? I didn’t have anything else!” Troy laughs.
Bobby, whose hits range from the classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today” to Toby Keith’s “I Wanna Talk About Me,” did like it. “We started throwing lines back and forth at each other,” recalls Bobby. “We were just having fun writing it. We pretty much wrote it chronologically—we had to see how it ended!”
Troy remembers how they came up with the song’s unusual ending. “We’d written the first and second verses the first day we got together. When we got back together, Bobby said, ‘I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we make the old guy a millionaire—and instead of leaving his family the money, he leaves [the song’s main character] the money.’ I looked at him like he had three heads, and I’m thinkin’, ‘I don’t know...’ But then I just start nodding my head—‘Yeah! That sounds good to me!’”
“People Are Crazy,” recorded by Billy Currington, became Troy’s first No. 1 and Billy’s third chart topper. “I loved the title alone,” notes Billy. “When I first saw it, it made me smile.”
As for Troy, he’ll never forget a poignant moment that is forever linked with Bobby Braddock long before they wrote “People Are Crazy.” One of the first songs I ever wrote was a Joe Nichols song called “The Shade.” The morning Joe’s CD with that song on it came out, I went to my local Walmart in Alabama and bought me a copy.” Troy pauses, and once again, the voice thickens with emotion. “I came back out to my car and put the CD in, and I was looking at the credits on the cover...and Bobby Braddock had a song on it. I remember thinking, with tears in my eyes, ‘I’ve got one of my songs on a record with Bobby Braddock!’”
8/24/2009 Enjoy Yourself
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