Might as well start where it all started, huh? This is a song about the town where I grew up, Mechanicsville, VA. I wrote this song back in 2005 while I was playing with the bluegrass band the Right Turn Clydes. We've since disbanded, but we had a lot of fun there for awhile. This is the version that I recorded with the Clydes sometime around 2006 or so.
Musically, I really wanted to write a song in the style of "Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show. While bluegrassy in instrumentation, it had a very rock n' roll kinda feel to it that our audiences loved. I wanted to see if I could write one that had that same flavor.
Lyrically, the inspiration for the song came from an overnight road trip back to my hometown with buddy and former Clyde singer/fiddler Larry. Larry and I journeyed from Raleigh to Mechanicsville to see a solo acoustic show by Scott Miller (of Scott Miller & The Commonwealth). We met up with some of my old, good friends who joined us for the show and good times were had by all. Somewhere along the way I started humming the words that would go on to be the chorus of the song.
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