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TRENT SUMMAR & THE NEW ROW MOB

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Song-by-Song

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades – One in a long line of rural, farm-rock style, country-politan love songs I’ve written through the years. I think it has a “New Money” feel to it. I love the image of the line “I was runnin’ Ole Blue ’47 ‘round the end, when that Lincoln County boy rung my bell.” I wrote it with Michael Heeney. Michael has had tons of cuts with the number one “Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo” for Tracy Byrd being a recent highlight.

Love You – What can I say? This song has had a life of its own. One of my oldest writing partners, Jay Knowles, was pissed off and wanted to write a song called “F*?# You.” I said “Let’s write ‘Love You’ instead.” Every line just fell out of us straight into the song. We wrote it and forgot about it until my girlfriend heard the work tape and said “you gotta cut that.” I said “Really?” My publisher agreed. Just went Top 30 for Jack Ingram. My Daddy likes my version better, but that’s his job.

Guys Like Me – Co-written with legendary songsmith and my buddy, Kostas. I love this song and will always play it. It’s about lots of things, but makes me think of the honky-tonks at home on Lower Broad. I’ve always wanted to write a song that Buck Owens would have liked. We called Raul Malo and he sings the Don Rich-like harmony vocals. Ken’s Baritone guitar work is cool as hell. Oh, and it’s on a platinum record by some guy named Gary Allan.

She Knows What To Do With A Saturday Night – I wrote this with legendary songwriter, guitar-player and Grammy-award winning producer Gary Nicholson. It’s a great country-soul song. I really love playing this live. It makes people come out of the kitchen and look to see what you’re doing. This track is on the Platinum sophomore album by some guy named Billy Currington.

Supposed To Do – The second of three Trent Summar/Jay Knowles songs on the record. Hey, what can I say? We write together a lot. Probably the best crafted song I’ve ever written. I love the pay off that comes at the end of the song. I feel like this song has a good chance of getting re-cut by a superstar… other than myself.

Hayride – What’s country-er than a hayride? This is about an old boy’s plot to get a girl in the hay with the help of moonshine. I wrote this with Rand Bishop, who produced this record (as well as writing a little song called “My List” for Toby Keith, one of the most performed country songs ever that stayed at #1 for six weeks!).

Louisville Nashville Line – Written with my band mate and collaborator from the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Supe Granda. The band really loves playing this song. We’ve been opening our shows with it for the last year. It’s always good to have a train song on your album. “Play a train song!”

Never Really Loved Her Anyway – Written with my aforementioned songwriting buddy, Jay Knowles who wrote the #1 song “She’ll Leave You With A Smile” for George Strait; as well as my first #1 “New Money.” I love the feel of this song. It reminds me of a good ‘90’s Alan Jackson tune. It’s one of my favorite opening lines, “If there ain’t at least ten beer cans in your front yard.”

Pink John Deere – Another Supe Granda co-write. It’s the latest in a long line of agricultural love songs he and I have penned. “President of the FFA, wrote her thesis on bailing hay.” I got the idea when I saw a girl wearing a pink John Deere shirt.

He Stopped Loving Her Today – Short of giving it away, the chorus really pack a punch. I can’t exactly remember who originally did the song with this arrangement, but the band knew it and we decided to do it. Some say it’s Doug Cook from the Hogsheads’ arrangement. It’s also been rumored that Alan McDonald from the Blind Farmers from Hell first did it in this style. Either way it’s bound to make some people smile and some people mad. At least it gets a reaction.

Girl From Tennessee – I wrote this with my old friend John Bohlinger who is the band leader for the cable show Nashville Star and the son of the vice governor for the state of Montana. Bohlinger was drunk on Guinness at three o’clock in the afternoon when we pulled him out of the bar and into the studio to play some hippie steel guitar on the track. This one was highly influenced by the Willis Alan Ramsey record that the owner of my publishing/production company, Parker MacDonell gave me. That record changed my life musically. This track has the soul of a Stones song with the country-ness of a Haggard tune. I love the second verse. It’s about two things dear to me: Tennessee and my girl.

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