Take It All Back - BRKLYN Remix

Nashville-based Judah & the Lion formed in the early 2010s as a folk band with bluegrass undertones. The band adopted a rockier approach (although keeping their banjo and mandolin) for their third album, Folk Hop N' Roll, which debuted at #7 on Billboard magazine's Americana/Folk Albums chart in March 2016.

This call-and-response rocker is the oldest track on the record having been crafted in 2013. It became a staple in the band's live set and eventually Judah & the Lion's breakthrough number, after reaching #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.

Frontman Judah Akers told Radio.com how the song originated from their banjo player, Nate Zuercher. "We were rehearsing for our first-ever headlining tour off of our first record called Kids These Days, and we were in this shed—it's like this trailer that we used to rent out and rehearse in—it looks like what you'd imagine a high school band in a garage would play in… really loud, kind of obnoxious. We were playing through a song and all of a sudden Nate, our banjo player, starts playing this banjo line on top of this other song we were rehearsing for the tour and I was like, 'Wait, wait, wait! Stop. What is that?' It was one of those moments where I thought the banjo line was kind of catchy and special so we literally stopped and got our drummer who started playing a hip hop beat to this banjo line. And, I think I'd written the song in like three minutes after that. It was one of those songs that come together quick and as a songwriter—one of those songs that you almost get mad at because they come so easy—because all the other ones don't. So, we were playing 'Take It All Back' a year-and-a-half before it even came out. So a lot of our fans were already kind of asking for it and were a little mad: 'Why isn't this song out? I love this song and I can't find it anywhere!'"