Southern Way Of Life

Album: Southern Way Of Life (2013)
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  • Deana Carter penned the title track of her seventh album with Damon Elliott, who is Dionne Warwick's son. She recalled to American Songwriter magazine: "On that song, we got together — he's this Hip-Hop guy and I'm the Country girl. I'm the Nashville girl in LA wanting to get some R&B cuts, and he was wanting to get into country music, so we just did a song of southernisms. We were joking about how I talk, so I started writing down things that my mother and grandparents have said – and we just strung it all together in a conversation in this song. So that's kind of our 'Shave My Legs' for this record."

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