Where Country Grows

Album: Where Country Grows (2011)
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  • The second single and title track of Country music artist Ashton Shepherd's second album was penned by the singer with Nashville singer-songwriter Bobby Pinson, and is one of several the pair wrote for the record. This was the first song the two wrote together. Pinson recalled to Taste of Country: "Ashton had written a majority of her first record by herself. Her publisher was trying to get her to stretch out and write with some other people. I was sensitive to that because I knew that she was a great songwriter on her own. To be expected to come sit across the couch from somebody you have never met before and plug yourself into a whole bunch of formulas is not the easiest thing to do or the necessarily the nicest thing to do, especially to a free spirit like Ashton. So I was real sensitive to that, and I really wanted to listen to what she was doing and figure out how to put it into a commercial package. This is the first song out of about seven that we wrote."
  • Pinson explained the song's meaning to Taste of Country: "It's just talking about things that make us grow into country people and into our country ways of lives. It's more than just the images of small town life, because there's country people in big towns, too. It takes them back to a time when they lived in a different place or wish they lived in a different place or have friends who live in a different place. There's just a lot of images."
  • The song's music video was mostly shot at Shepherd's farm in Alabama, and features the heavily pregnant singer with her husband, Roland, and 5-year-old son, James.

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