A Woman Like You

This is the first single by the country singer Lee Brice, from his sophomore album. The song finds the narrator telling his girl what he would have done if he'd never met her. He admits that he'd have done "a lot more offshore fishin'" and taken "a few strokes off my golf game," but concludes, "Alone and out there on the loose, I'd be lookin' for a woman like you."

Nashville songwriters Phil Barton and Jon Stone, and country artist Johnny Bulford penned the song. Sydney, Australia-born Phil Barton has numerous credits on assorted country, children's and pop records including David Nail's cut "She Rides Away." Jon Stone is a good friend of Lee Brice and the pair have written a number of tracks together including "Seven Days" for Kenny Chesney. Johnny Bulford has opened for such headliners as Collin Raye, Josh Turner, Trick Pony, and Emerson Drive and has also written material with Chris Young, including "Flashlight," a track from the Nashville Star champ's Neon album.

Speaking to Taste of Country, Barton recalled the story of the song: "Johnny was running really late that morning. His alarm didn't go off. So me and Jon sat there for an hour, and jammed on the music of the song. When Johnny arrived, we started talking, and somehow the song idea came about. Jon just mumbled the words when we were singing the melody." "We basically wrote and wrote, for close to 10 hours," he continued. "We knew it was cool. We went to dinner after. We were all kind of exhausted. We all went home from dinner that night, and Jon took the song to Lee's house. He played it for Lee. When I woke up the next morning, in my inbox in my e-mail was a version of Lee singing the song with just a guitar, which was pretty cool. Before we all knew it, Lee was playing the song for Curb [Records]. In the end, that version of the song ended up being the final recording, with just a few extra guitars added in there."