Five-man band Old Dominion has a rising hit on their hands with their terrific debut single, “Break up with Him,” and the band’s Matthew Ramsey gave us the backstory on how the song came to be. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Know Your Dom: Old Dominion is lead vocalist Matthew Ramsey, multi-instrumentalist Trevor Rosen, lead guitarist Brad Tursi, drummer Whit Sellers, and bassist Geoff Sprung.
• You can find “Break up with Him” on the band’s self-titled EP, available on Apple Music.
• Learn more about the band and find tour dates — including stadium shows this summer with Kenny Chesney!  — on the band’s official website at OldDominionBand.com.

  Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey recalls the origin of the band’s debut single, “Break up with Him.” (:37)
“It actually started at a sound check one day, we were just kind of noodlin’ around like you do, makin’ noise, and fell into this groove, and Trevor recorded it on his phone, and later that night, we were travelin’ down the road in our van, and it was the middle of the night, probably 2 or 3 in the mornin’, and I just had the idea for this song to be like a one-sided phone conversation. And I sat up and went to the back where Trevor was on his guitar, and everybody was asleep, and I just whispered into my phone. I whispered the first line, so I just said, ‘Hey, girl, what’s up?’ and whispered it really quietly, and that sort of set the tone for this kind of sneaky, one-sided phone conversation.”