Boondocks (song)

Boondocks (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Boondocks


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Artist = Little Big Town
from Album = The Road to Here
Released = May 5, 2005 [http://magazine.angrycountry.com/article.php?story=2005042820190424 AngryCountry.com - Little Big Town Releasing New Single] ]
Format = CD single
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Country
Length = 4:32 (album version)
Label = Equity
Writer = Karen Fairchild
Wayne Kirkpatrick
Kimberly Roads
Phillip Sweet
Jimi Westbrook
Producer = Wayne Kirkpatrick
Certification = Gold (U.S.)
Last single = "Everything Changes"
(2002)
This single = "Boondocks"
(2005)
Next single = "Bring It On Home"
(2006)
Misc ="Boondocks" is a song released by American country music group Little Big Town. It was the first single released from their 2005 album "The Road to Here"; in addition, it became their first Top 10 hit on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070511/ART10/705110309 toledoblade.com - Better Days for Little Big Town] ]

About the song

"Boondocks" is an up-tempo song whose main theme is of rural pride ("I feel no shame, I'm proud of where I came from / I was born and raised in the boondocks"). In the song, all four of the group's members trade off lead and harmony vocals, with all four members singing in various combinations throughout. Jerry Douglas plays Dobro.

Originally, the song was titled "Waiting For the Sun to Go Down". According to Karen Fairchild, one of the group's members, "When we wrote it, it just wasn't there... We kind of set it aside for a few days and then Wayne [Kirkpatrick, one of the song's co-writers] came back." [http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/article.asp?xid=572 Little Big Town follows 'the road to here', December 2005] ] The group later decided on turning the song into a Southern anthem, at which point Kirkpatrick suggested "I'm born and raised in the boondocks". (The line "waiting for the sun to go down" was transferred to "Bones", another song on the band's album.)

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