Alone With You

This moody cut is the second single from American country music artist Jake Owen's third album Barefoot Blue Jean Night. Shane McAnally, J.T. Harding and Catt Gravitt wrote the song. Illinois native Catt Gravitt has written songs for the likes of Martina McBride, Kenny Rogers, Rascal Flatts, Trace Adkins, and Craig Morgan whilst singer-songwriters Harding and McAnally's previous collaborations include Kenny Chesney's hit single "Somewhere With You." In our interview with Gravitt, she explained: "We started talking about our personal situations, and we could all relate to it really strongly. We just assumed that a girl was going to record it, because it was such a vulnerable lyric and it's hard to find a man in country music that is willing to express that. But then Jake did it. He's a very sexy guy. Oh my Gosh! It was just a great combination."

The song finds Owen confronting a woman who only flirts with him when she's drinking. He explained to The Boot why he chose it as his follow-up to his hit single "Barefoot Blue Jean Night": "People just gravitate towards it, like the line in there about 'you kiss me when you're drunk.' The label wanted 'The One That Got Away' to be my single, and I wrote it, and obviously as a songwriter you want a song to be a single, you make a good amount of money. But I just knew, there are too many people coming to me to tell me they love that song. So I just told the label, 'Y'all are gonna think I'm crazy, but let's change it.' There's like a lot of vulnerability in that song."

Owen told The Boot he was attracted to this song as he could relate to its meaning. He explained: "It's a song about being in an odd relationship with someone where it's not even really a relationship, you really don't even have that much in common with that person except for sexually. You use each other for convenience. I've been there. A lot of people have been there - it's called a 'booty call'! [laughs]"