Another Side Of You

Album: Real Things (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • In "Another Side Of You," Joe Nichols plays the part of a married guy doing his best to manage the household with his wife. She's stuck driving the kids around in a minivan and working a dead-end job, so she's quite understandably stressed out and on edge. But even when she's at her worst, he still loves her unconditionally, every side of her. It's a song many married couples with kids struggling to afford a vacation can relate to.
  • This isn't a personal song for Nichols, who was in a very different life stage when it was released in May 2007. That September, he married Heather Singleton, his intermittent girlfriend since 1995 when he was 18. They had their first child together in 2012 and another in 2014, so Joe got to experience the quotidian family routine he sings about on this track.
  • Carson Chamberlain and Jamey Johnson. Chamberlain has worked on many songs for Easton Corbin and produced the Zach Top song "I Never Lie"; Jamey Johnson released his hit "In Color" the following year.
  • "Another Side Of You" was the first single from Nichols' fifth album, Real Things, released in 2007. His next single was "It Ain't No Crime," the story of a layabout who's proud of it.

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