Down to the Honkytonk

Album: Greetings From… Jake (2018)
Charted: 65
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Songfacts®:

  • This stomping romper finds Jake Owen delivering a love letter to honky tonks everywhere.

    The only place you might see my name
    Is on the wall for a good call
    I'm a local legend on Friday night
    With past blue ribbon and a neon light


    The singer raises a glass to the simple pleasures that can be found in a barroom.
  • Owen said he loves going to the Honky tonks both in Nashville and around the country, "It's all about a place to have beers with friends, a place to listen to good country music and catch up on great stories," he explained.
  • Rodney Clawson, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally wrote this feel-good singalong. Owen chose to record the tune as he suspected it was one that would easily get stuck in listeners' heads.

    "It's a special kinda song. I think when people hear that song, it's one of those that's just like an earworm," he said. "It's something that connects, and I feel like in a world of a lot of music and art and ways to distract us and our attention, it's super-important if you're gonna put out any sort of content, that it's content that grabs people's attention."
  • The video was filmed on Lower Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee, and features Owen leading a group of partygoers on a bar crawl along that street. Justin Clough and Ben Skipworth directed the clip. Clough also shot the visual for the Florida native's previous single "I Was Jack (You Were Diane)."

Comments: 1

  • Marcus from 77566Tell Jake Owen to clean up This lyrics to changed She goes bats--t on tequila to She goes completely mad or crazy on Tequila.
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