We feel like many people this year contemplated what a new normal might feel like. "Why are you in the middle of the road when you could just fly.?" Sometimes we find ourselves jumping out of our norm to nourish what we need in life. The reference to the little bird, throughout the song, was inspired by a bird that was accidentally hit on a busy ATL street. Whether you had a great year, terrible year, or both, how are you going to take what you've experienced or learned, and apply it moving forward? The song is a prayer with the hope that no matter what happens you can live authentically and your purpose be understood. Everyone went in blind through the storm and hoped to be led correctly. I like going down a slide backward, but it's more assuring if you go down facing forward the first time around.
First off, the overall pandemic we're all facing.who knew going in, how we would be affected. The Lyrics (written by John Schmarkey/Ty Barksdale) for 'Blown Away' were inspired by a combo of a few thoughts.
After we tracked all the instruments and vocals (Nikki Brickhouse/John Schmarkey), we had our good friend and producer (Darrick Atwater, who also produced our track 'Fighting For') mix the tune remotely with us. After getting the core of the song down, we called in our incredible horn ensemble (Malik Henry, Michael Meo, Chandler Greer), and they did an amazing job over the course of a couple of sessions. The only thing we didn't record at Skytop was the drums (Justin Bradford), which we did with our producer and mentor, John Briglevich at Sonica Studios. We recorded most of the song at Skytop studio below Ty Barksdale's house (ATL guitars and co-founder). In the case of this song, our bass player (Glenn Stout), had an addicting bass line (the main chordal progression you hear), and we built off that. Having good chemistry is something we take pride in as a band family. Something interesting always comes out of nothing. We have a good ole' time hanging out in the studio, and coming up with ideas as a group off the top of our heads. The process was much like it always is with ATL, just with a side of pandemic.
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