ABC/Image Group LA Brett Young can trace his latest hit, “Here Tonight,” all the way back to the You Look Good Tour he was on a couple years ago with Lady Antebellum.
“We were about halfway into the Lady A tour, summer of 2017, and I brought two writers out on the road for the weekend,” Brett recalls. “We had written the first day, and lunch the second day, Charles Kelley walked up and just said, ‘You guys out here writing this weekend?’ And we said, ‘Yeah.'”
“And if you know Charles, he doesn’t mix words. He said, ‘I wanna write with ya!'”
Brett and his co-writers didn’t have to think twice about working with the man who’s co-written huge hits like “Need You Now” and “I Run to You.”
“We’re all big fans of Charles and Lady Antebellum, so that was an easy yes for us,” the “In Case You Didn’t Know” hitmaker says. “And ‘Here Tonight’ was actually the first song the four of us wrote together.”
Ironically, the California native wasn’t convinced that “Here Tonight” was meant for his second record, Ticket to L.A.
“I wasn’t sure this one was mine,” Brett tells ABC Radio. “And then Charles sang the demo vocal on it, and listening back to him sing it, I was… really intimidated to try to sing it… because Charles is such a great singer. But… listening to it, it really did feel like me and I thought I did want it for my record.”
In all, Brett and Charles wrote three songs together that weekend, and have gotten together again since.
In April, Brett re-teams with another of his You Look Good tour mates, Kelsea Ballerini, for her Miss Me More trek.
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