When Chase Rice moved to Nashville, his first goal was to be a songwriter. He knew that the history of country music was not only built upon great singers, but it was also built on the men and women who wrote all those iconic songs that make up country music history. When he heard the song “Everybody We Know Does”–he knew it only had to pass one test for him–did the song sound like he could have wrote it, and that answer was “yes.” After a couple of quick additions to the song to truly make it his, Chase played it for the songwriters and they approved. Chase knew having their approval was important, so in the end he had a song which spoke the truth to him and his fans.

  Chase Rice talks about the importance of songwriters to country music, and how that relates to his new song “Everybody We Know Does.” (:35)
“Country’s definitely been, you know, along the way throughout all the great artists of any generation, there’s usually great song writers behind them. And I moved to town to be a songwriter, and that means the world. Song writing to me is just as important, if not more important than being an artist. And I do love writing my own stuff, but at same time I heard this song and thought to myself…my first thought was ‘well, would have I written it this way?’ And the answer was ‘yes.’ Then I ended up changing a couple of things, played the changes for the guys, and they liked them. But overall they did all the work.”