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• "What's Your Country Song?" is a nostalgic tune that intertwines shoutouts to country hits with the idea that all people have songs that have shaped their lives.

  Everybody got a small town anthem
  Everybody got a story to tell
  When you're rollin down a two-lane highway
  And you turn your radio on
  Tell me which one hits you baby
  What's your country song?

  Rhett debuted the tune on his Instagram on April 19, 2020 during the coronavirus lockdown. The track's message that everyone has a song that encourages them and energizes them to continue life seemed to him a good fit for such challenging times.

• Thomas Rhett wrote the song with his father, Rhett Akins, along with Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley and Parker Welling. They penned the feel-good tune in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas during his 2019 tour and released it as a single on November 12, 2020.

  "Some songwriting buddies of mine came, and this was the very first song we wrote on that trip," Rhett explained to Radio.com. "At first it started out as a piano vocal, and then we added some production to it and turned it into what it is now."

• Rhett told Radio.com's Kelly Ford the shout-outs to classic songs started as a joke when he name-checked his father's hit, "That Ain't My Truck."

  "We wrote the chorus first and then started to mess around with what the verse was gonna feel like," he recalled. "I immediately threw that line in about my dad and we all laughed. Then we were like, 'you know what, maybe all the verses need to be old school Country songs that we turn into a story.' I'm just trying to get my dad some props in there."

• The chorus came from Thomas Rhett noticing, "No matter where you live or where you're from, everyone has a little bit of country inside their bones." Rhett recalled to Radio.com's Katie Neal:

  "We wrote the chorus in like thirty minutes, but couldn't decide how to wrangle it all in to have it make any sense. I had had this idea on my phone called 'Where's Your Country' or something like 'Everybody's Got Some Country in Them' or something like that and I kind of got that idea from traveling as much as we do."

• Rhett told The Boot he hopes the listener won't hear the song titles the first time they hear it, but be concentrating on the story. Then the more they listen to the song, they start to pick up the titles and go, "Oh my gosh, I love that song, I love that song."

  Rhett added he anticipates some listeners will make their own interpretation of the song and ask themselves, "What were my songs that kind of defined my life? What songs did I hear on the radio that, when I hear them on the radio today, as a 30-year-old or 40-year-old, make me feel 17 again?"

• "What's Your Country Song" climbed to #1 on the Country chart dated March 27, 2021. It was Rhett's second visit to the summit following "Die a Happy Man ," which spent 17 weeks at the peak position in 2015-'16.

Thomas Rhett has scored his 17th career number one hit with his latest single “What’s Your Country Song!” This marks Rhett’s 11th consecutive number one, extending his record of having more consecutive number one hits than any other country artist.

The song honors 16 iconic country music hits that have inspired him, even including one from his father, Rhett Akins. Check out all the songs referenced in “What’s Your Country Song” below!

“Drive” by Alan Jackson

“Did you grow up on a tractor? / Did your daddy let you drive?”

“Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound” by Hank Williams Jr.

“Are you whiskey bent and hell bound…?”

“Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard

“…Even though your mama tried…”

“Dixieland Delight” by Alabama

“Did you cruise down a back road with your Dixieland delight?”

“Chattahoochee” by Alan Jackson

“Are you on the Chattahoochee…”

“Barefoot Blue Jean Night” by Jake Owen

“…on a barefoot blue jean night?”

“Turn Your Radio On” by Ray Stevens

“When you’re rollin’ down a two-lane highway and you turn your radio on…”

“All My Exes Live in Texas” by George Strait

“Do your exes live in Texas?”

“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams

“Are you so lonesome you could cry?”

“Heartbroke” by Ricky Scaggs

“Are you heartbroke…”

“That Ain’t My Truck” by Rhett Akins

“…’cause you know that ain’t your truck in her drive?”

“Friends In Low Places” by Garth Brooks

“Are your friends all in low places…?”

“Neon Moon” by Brooks & Dunn

“…underneath a neon moon?”

“I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” by Barbra Mandrell

“Were you already country back when country wasn’t cool?”

“Strawberry Wine” by Deana Carter

“Who’s your strawberry wine?”

“Family Tradition” by Hank Williams Jr.

“What’s your family tradition?”

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