They took a fairly classic approach, building conversational verses that emphasized the boredom and lack of opportunity in a one-stoplight town. “It just feels like it could fit that world.” The progression dances around that tonic, but in skipping past it, creates a tension that never fully resolves. In fact, it defies music-theory standards by never settling into the root chord of the key signature. “If you break it down, it sounds more jazz to me,” Ashton says. Garcia had a hip-hop-leaning percussion track, and Laird used a 1963 nylon-string Martin guitar to fashion a progression full of major-seventh and minor-seventh harmonics, essentially pairing the small-town tale with big-city chords.
They fitted her idea to a counterintuitive musical foundation. I don’t care.’ We just started talking about where she grew up, and I mean, it’s very similar to how I grew up in Pennsylvania.” “But the way that she did it, I was like, ‘This sounds great. “For the last five years, anytime somebody says, ‘Pickup truck,’ in a co-write, everybody kind of just rolls their eyes,” says Laird. She also expected they would resist that title, though they did their best to hide their doubts when she floated it. “I knew that they would be the people who could make it sound fresh.” “I had the title, and I knew that they would be the people to write it with that didn’t make it sound like ‘My tractor is green, and my cow goes moo,’” she says with a laugh. It was a cheap night out in a town with few entertainment options, and it was an experience that Ashton knew firsthand.īut she also knew “Dates in Pickup Trucks” needed some out-of-the-tailgate thinking, so she saved the title until a writing appointment with Luke Laird (“AA,” “Tequila Little Time”) and David Garcia (“Meant To Be,” “Drinking Alone”) at Garcia’s studio in Nashville’s Berry Hill neighborhood. Juanita, giggling gleefully, had told Ashton in a phone call that she had packed a dinner and gone on a romantically nostalgic ride with Carl, driving down the back roads of central Missouri in their truck.
“Dates in Pickup Trucks” is a much gentler storyline than that history might imply, a plot inspired by Ashton’s grandparents, Carl and Juanita Meisenheimer. Really, I classify it as power females - like if a female sounded like she would smack the shit out of you. “Because not only did we play classic country in my house, but we also played soul music. “I naturally sing behind the beat just based off what I grew up listening to,” Ashton says.
Ashton was raised on country music in California, Mo., a rural community southwest of Columbia.
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