This was first recorded by The Zac Brown Band in 2003 for their 2005 album Home Grown and re-recorded three years later for The Foundation. The 2008 version was their first single to enter the Hot 100.
Frontman Zac Brown explained this celebration of a rural lifestyle to the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville: "The song is basically just a list of all the things that I love. Pretty much, this is who we are. And granted it was four or five years ago when we finished the song and we wrote it, but that's the roots, and basically it's like the more we get along and the older we get, there's very few songs that you can say 'I believe in,' and those are the things that I want to write about and sing about. And that was just one of those things that was captured in that song."
In 2006 The Lost Trailers had a minor Country hit with their version of this tune. Its climb up the chart was halted by Zac Brown's change of mind about licensing the song to BNA Records and its consequent withdrawal from radio.
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