Nothing But The Night

Album: Lay It On Down (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • Shepherd describes this song as a "vibe track." In a Songfacts interview, he said: "It's about a guy and a girl that he loves, wanting to spend the evening together, but that music and the lyric really just puts you in a place - it puts you in the song and creates this really cool, smoky, under-the-moonlight kind of vibe, just by listening to it.

    That song is a complete original. I don't feel like you can listen to that song and go, 'Oh, that sounds just like so-and-so's song.' That song really stands on its own as a true original song."
  • Shepherd used an assortment of co-writers on the Lay It On Down album. He wrote this track with Danny Myrick and Dylan Altman.

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