Florida Georgia Line’s latest single is “Smooth,” and Brian Kelley says, “’Smooth’ is probably one of my favorite songs on the Dig Your Roots album.”
He remembers writing it out at Tyler Hubbard’s farm with Nicole Clawson and George Schmidt. It was a beautiful fall day and Brian says, “I had told Jordan to make kind of a modern day ‘Fishin’ in the Dark’ track and he showed up with that track and Nicole had the title for ‘Smooth’. I remember that and I remember Tyler came in with that hook on the chorus, ‘Good Lord Almighty’. And that kind of got us going down the chorus. We just wrote real hard that day and had a lot of fun. It’s something that it’s a little swampy it’s a little woodsy and it’s right where we’re at and it’s really fun to play live.”
Florida Georgia Line will have about a half a dozen chances to play “Smooth” live before they wrap up The Smooth Tour for the year so that Tyler can prepare to be a daddy for the very first time to a baby girl his wife Hayley is expecting on December 20th.
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Brian Kelley – “’Smooth’ is probably one of my favorite songs on the Dig Your Roots album. We wrote that late in the fall out at Tyler’s farm with Nicole Clawson and George Schmidt, one of our good buddies. And we’ve written with Nicole many times and it was our first time just us four and it was a beautiful kind of chilly day, and I remember I had told Jordan to make kind of a modern day ‘Fishin’ in the Dark’ track and he showed up with that track and Nicole had the title for ‘Smooth’. I remember that and I remember Tyler came in with that hook on the chorus, ‘Good Lord Almighty’. And that kind of got us going down the chorus. We just wrote real hard that day and had a lot of fun. It’s something that it’s a little swampy it’s a little woodsy and it’s right where we’re at (fun to play live) and it’s really fun to play live.”