Holler Back (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Holler Back


Artist = The Lost Trailers
Album = Holler Back
Released = March 2008
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2008
Genre = Country
Length = 3:14
Label = BNA
Writer = Tim James
Stokes Nielson
Producer = Brett Beavers
Blake Chancey
Last single = "Why Me" (2006)
This single = "Holler Back" (2008)
Next single = "How 'bout You Don't
(2008)

"Holler Back" is a single by American country music band The Lost Trailers. Co-written by lead singer Stokes Nielson, it is the band's fourth chart single on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts, and their first Top 40 hit on that chart. The song is also the title track and lead-off single to their fifth studio album, "Holler Back", released in August 2008 on BNA Records. [cite web |url=http://www.thelosttrailers.com/?em1776=185662_-1__0_~0_-1_2_2008_0_0&content=journal|title=Hey Ya'll from the snowy Midwest |accessdate=2008-05-22 |last=Nielsen |first=Stokes |date=2008-2-5 |work=Band Journal]

Content

"Holler Back" is an up-tempo in which the narrator describes his feeling out of place in an urban setting. In the first verse, he mentions a friend who tells him to "holler back when [he gets] back home", although the narrator says that the only "holler back" that he knows is "that holler back in the woods". This line refers to the Southern American English word "holler", a slang term for a hollow or valley. In the second verse, he describes a woman named Mary Jo who lives in the hollow.

Reception

Jim Malec of The 9513 gave the song a "thumbs down" rating, as he felt that it "poke [d] fun" at Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl", but since "Holler Back" was released three years after Stefani's song, he called it "an opportunity lost to very poor timing".cite web |url=http://www.the9513.com/the-lost-trailers-holler-back/ |title=The Lost Trailers - "Holler Back" |accessdate=2008-08-13 |last=Malec |first=Jim |date=2008-03-21 |work=The 9513] However, he also called the song "an incredibly tight track with a John Rich-worthy hook… which showcases guitarist Stokes Nielson's spot-on… under-appreciated songwriting talent."

Chart performance

The song debuted at #60 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated February 23, 2008, and fell from the chart the week after. However, it re-entered at #48 on the chart dated March 15, 2008.

Charts

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