The singer compared working with Brown to math homework on occasion – "I don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm just going to do what I think." "He's really, really, really funny, and it was all in good banter." "That's just in the best way possible," Dumas says. Band members say that Brown pushed them in ways they didn't expect - to revisit their harmony profile and dig deeper into their musicianship.ĭumas says Brown "shouted at me a lot" and pushed them to play chords they haven't strummed in a decade. Under Brown's skilled direction, the men put their spin on "When I Get Home" for a result they feel is the next step in their career. I think so many of us have like experienced that 'you've messed up and at this point, I'm just like praying.'" "We were so into this song and the storytelling of redemption. "Like they say in Nashville if a song translates with just someone singing with an instrument without all the bells and whistles and that's enough to carry the song, it has to be special," Dumas says. King Calway met Brown in Nashville at his Southern Ground Studio, where Brown picked up an acoustic guitar and played "When I Get Home." He told them that he had written the song but didn't know if they would like it. He was just all in, and I think we were, too."
We just have a lot of the same interests with the harmonies and the band. "We all got in a room together and gelled really well. I'd love to meet with the guys," Deaton recalls. "That's the beginning of our relationship, but I hadn't seen Zac in about three years."īrown found a live King Calaway performance, then reached out and asked to hear more of their music. "He kind of took me under his wing," Deaton, 29, says.
The drummer grew up near Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee, but moved in with Brown after graduating high school. King Calaway burst onto the country music scene in early 2019 with its debut single "World For Two" and has since metamorphized into a sophisticated act with an organic-yet-worldly point of view.īrown's relationship with Deaton dates before that. "It's very storytelling, and it feels like another step in a good direction for us in terms of the maturity we're going for." "We love this song," says King Calaway singer Simon Dumas, 26. RELATED: King Calaway Is All Grown Up and Breaking Hearts in Mature New Music Video: 'Hits You Right in the Gut' Brown will perform the song with King Calaway in Nissan Stadium. Written by Brown, Jonathan Singleton and Ben Simonetti, the song pairs King Calaway's distinct vocal harmonies with their exemplary musicianship for a song that swells with authenticity and emotion as it both breaks hearts and ushers hope. Brown co-wrote and produced King Calaway's reflective and repentant new single "When I Get Home," which comes out at 11 p.m.