Whatever It Is

According to Brown, this fiddle-laden ballad is about "the bewildering power of love."

The song was co-written by Zac Brown and Wyatt Durrette, with whom Brown also co-wrote the band's debut #1 single "Chicken Fried." It was released as the second single from The Foundation and was the band's second Top 10 hit on the Billboard country singles charts.

Durrette told The Boot the story of the song: "This song was written about seven years ago. Zac was playing at a little bar called Thunderbirds [in Atlanta]. We'd known each other for a while. We were sitting around talking, and I said something that was a compliment to him. I told him that he had whatever 'it' is on stage that people love to listen to and watch him play. I told him they were drawn to him. Zac said, 'That's a great title for a song, but we should write it about a woman.' At the time, I was head-over-heals in love with a girl. Those kind of songs are easy to write when you're in that place in your life. I wrote the first verse real quick by myself and finished it with Zac. It was our first song we constructed together, melody-wise and lyric-wise. It was easy to write. Some songs take a while to write, but this song came right out. This was just about when you're in love, and the woman has all those things that draw you into them."