Whiskey Used to Burn

Album: I Don't Dance (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • Brice recorded some of this nostalgic ballad digitally. The South Carolina singer explained in a Walmart Soundcheck video that he and songwriters Rob Hatch and Lance Miller penned the song sitting around a picnic table during Jerrod Niemann's album release party. Needing to save their rough cut, they saved it onto Brice's phone. "And during this work tape, there's kids running around and there's screen doors squeaking open,"he said. "We had no idea until we listened back to it. This work tape, it was magic. There's this life in it!"

    Once Brice started laying down the song with his band in the studio, he realized it was lacking something. "I missed those kids talking in the background and I missed those doors squeaking and the wind blowing," he said. "So what you're hearing on the record, the first half of it is the work tape, and then it morphs into the studio version."

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