"You can relate life to a dirt road in a lot of ways: sometimes it's beat up, broken, scattered and washed out, and you don't always know what's around the next curve, but you take that road anyway. So when we started playing shows again, I was using that song to recalibrate my life," he says. "That was what I wanted people to hear me say. But Smith was insistent that if the song helped him cope, it could do the same for others. His team warned him against any kind of re-entry into the music world. But no matter their scars, it doesn't change what they are. So he sat down to rework the song's bridge to reflect that sometimes dirt roads are beat up and broken, scattered and tossed in the breeze. "It started hitting me in a different way. "That's Why I Love Dirt Roads" was one of the songs he'd been planning to record on June 5. It didn't even cross my mind."īut after several months of mourning, he was visiting his parents, sitting on their front porch just outside of Waco, and listening to the song he'd written earlier that year with Chris DeStefano, Bradley Rempel and Jon Nite. And then we lost Riv the night of June 4," Smith recalls of the tragic night he and his wife Amber lost their 3-year-old son River in a drowning accident at their Texas home. I had about six songs ready to record, and had booked a Nashville studio for June 5, 2019. "The vision for this music collection was just starting to come together. Smith was writing and creating and prepping for his 10th studio album, when all of those plans abruptly came to a halt. This new batch of music from the born-and-bred Texan initially started back in early 2019.
Not just for himself, but for anyone who needs to hear songs that let them know they're not alone on whatever road they're taking. And that's the true measure of a bona fide artist: when you can share a little bit of yourself with every story you tell and every picture you paint.Īfter the kind of year Smith had - we all had - he decided to let his music do the healing. That's what country music has done for Smith. When people are looking for purpose, he is proof that sometimes purpose finds you. When people are in a tough spot, he shows them a way out. When people need hope, his songs inspires it.
The power of music has always been in Granger Smith's hands, even when he didn't know it. That's what makes it beautiful." - Granger Smith on the path he's taking now "You don't always know what's around the next curve, but you take that road anyway.
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