MATT STELL: Check Out this hilarious Behind The Scenes from the Music Video Shoot for “If I Was A Bar” (Audio and Video Link)
So Jonathan Singleton, John Isbell, and Zack Kale wrote this song, “If I Was A Bar.” And, immediately when I heard it, I thought ‘Man, this thing is so cool.’ It’s got this vibe of about it. It’s got this fun party thing, and it tells this fun story and it does in a way that a lot of country music that I love does, which is it kind of takes some heartbreak and puts it fun, like kind of a fun heartbreak kind of thing. It’s, at the same time, a country song. It’s a party song and we love playing it live, and I just love everything about it. Basically the song is about a guy that who gets left and he’s trying to think if he was a bar he’d be all the things that she didn’t like in the bar. Especially, when he’s trying to get over her- Get over a broken heart. So, instead of just going to a bar, if he was actually the bar. And I just thought ‘Man, what a creative way to talk about something that, you know, country music is famous for, which is drinking songs and heart break songs. So, we bought the party to it and, man, I’m really proud of how it came out. It was really cool.