![]() Joe Don Rooney – electric guitar (2, 4, 7, 10), backing vocals.Jay DeMarcus – bass guitar, backing vocals.Gary LeVox, Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley Steve Robson, Jeffrey Steele, Danny Wells We wrote it in about 45 minutes." ~Joe Don Rooney Track listing I said, "Sing ‘Shine on’" and boom, right then and there it was married together. I was playing it for Jay and Gary and they started singing this melody over the chord progression. It said, "Shine On, Joe Don." It was so sweet, and I thought, "We’ve gotta write a song called ‘Shine On’." A few months afterward I had this cool melody on the bus and the "Shine On" idea came into my head. "When we won the ACM award, the 7th to 12th graders in my hometown, Picher, Oklahoma, made a huge banner and posed in the gymnasium with it. He didn't cut it and the band recorded it that same day. The publishing company told them if McGraw didn't record the song by 2 p.m. The song "You" was originally scheduled to be recorded by Tim McGraw when the band discovered it towards the end of recording. I thought, "I don’t see EVERYTHING you see in me, but since you see it, I’ll try to be that way." It was very easy to write, and as soon as I came up with the melody I shared the idea with Danny Orton and we wrote it." ~Joe Don Rooney You For me, like for a lot of men, when a woman says great things about you it can be hard to believe. "This is a very special song for me, since I wrote it after a conversation with my girlfriend Kassidy. It has a lot of energy and a good little story" ~Joe Don Rooney Like I Am I played it for Jay and Gary and we loved it and put it on hold. "I was writing with Marcus (Hummon) last year and he said, "Mind if I play you a song?" He played it in my truck while we were on the way to lunch and I was blown away. ![]()
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