Dirt Road Diaries Tour/"Country Girl (Shake It For Me)"

Nothing like this song to make you wish you grew up on dirt roads.  I love within one line, a song can instantly transport you from your car, living room, wherever, right onto the exact location of the song.  

So amazing to watch Luke Bryan carve out a place for himself in country music. 

So unreal that here we are Labor Day weekend, which means that summer is officially over.  Crazy to think that I am a junior in college now.  Ridiculous.  Well, I feel like the pinnacle of my summer was 8/29 when we went to see Luke's Dirt Road Diaries tour at the NYS Fair, which featured Thompson Square and Kelleigh Bannen (My favorite person ever!)  Ever since that concert ended, all I want to do is go back.  Regardless of the overly-intoxicated and way too obnoxious people that obstructed my view, hands down, this is one of the best concerts I've ever been to.  Amazing, amazing, amazing!

For starters, although I love Luke, the second I saw Kelleigh's name on that bill, I bought the tickets.  This girl is too amazing for words...she's getting her own entry.  

I guess my seats were actually meant to be.  Although we've sat in the grandstand for almost every show we've seen at the fair (not intentionally), the one thing I've never realized until this time is that I first-handedly had the ability to witness the power of a song.  Literally.  Amazing how once you're older, you realize everything you knew all along.  Honestly, I don't know what was louder, Luke himself, or 17,000 people singing along.  Unreal, out of body experience.  

  

Country Girl (Shake It For Me) - Syracuse, NY

FM Radio:
Singer: Luke Bryan
Songwriters: Luke Bryan, Dallas Davidson
Song: "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)"

Got a little boom in my big truck

Gonna open up the doors and turn it up

Gonna stomp my boots in the Georgia mud,

Gonna watch you make me fall in love

Get up on the hood of my daddy's tractor,

up on the toolbox it don't matter

Down on the tailgate girl i can't wait

To watch you do your thing

Shake it for the young bucks sittin' in the honky-tonks

For the rednecks rockin' 'till the break of dawn

For the DJ spinning that country song

c'mon c'mon c'mon

Shake it for the birds

Shake it for the bees

Shake it for the catfish swimming down deep in the creek

For the crickets

and the critters

and the squirrels

Shake it for the moon

Shake it for me girl

Country girl shake it for me

girl shake it for me

girl shake it for me

Somebody's sweet little farmer child

She got it in her blood to get a little wild

Pony tail and a pretty smile

Roped me in from a country mile

So come on over here and get in my arms

Spin me around this big ol' barn

Tangle me up like grandma's yarn

yeah yeah yeah

Shake it for the young bucks sittin' in the honky-tonks

For the rednecks rockin' 'till the break of dawn

For the DJ spinning that country song

c'mon c'mon c'mon

Shake it for the birds

Shake it for the bees

Shake it for the catfish swimming down deep in the creek

For the crickets

And the critters

And the squirrels

Shake it for the moon

Shake it for me girl

Country girl shake it for me

girl shake it for me

girl shake it for me

Country girl shake it for me

girl shake it for me

girl shake it for me

Now dance like a dandelion

In the wind, on the hill underneath the pines

Yeah move like the river flow

Feel the kick drum down deep in your toes

All I wanna do is get to holdin' you

And get to knowin' you

And get to showin' you

And get to lovin' you 'fore the night is through

Baby you know what to do!

Shake it for the young bucks sittin' in the honky-tonks

For the rednecks rockin' 'till the break of dawn

For the DJ spinning that country song

c'mon c'mon c'mon

Shake it for the birds

Shake it for the bees

Shake it for the catfish swimming down deep in the creek

For the crickets

And the critters

And the squirrels

Shake it for the moon

Shake it for me girl

Country girl shake it for me

Girl shake it for me

Girl shake it for me

Country girl shake it for me

Girl shake it for me

Girl shake it for me

"We Owned The Night"

Yet again, more shameless promotion for Lady Antebellum's Own The Night.  However, this is basically the title track off this CD.  I always thought something was a little off about it...until I heard it live.  When I first heard it, I felt like it needed a better line for the first line of the chorus or something...just something had to be stronger.  Well, I feel like an idiot because I absolutely love it.  And I think it is the perfect way to start off their CD and they need to open every single show with this great song.  The mandolin just makes it.  Listen & leave a comment!  


FM Radio:
Singers: Lady Antebellum
Songwriters: Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, Dallas Davidson
Song:"Own The Night"


Tell me have you ever wanted
Someone so much it hurts
Your lips keep trying to speak
But you just can't find the words
Well I had this dream once
I held you in my hands

She was the purest beauty
But not the common kind
She had a way about her
That made you feel alive
And for a moment
We made the world stand still

Yeah we own the night

You had me dim the lights
You danced just like a child
The wine spilled on your dress
And all you did was smile
Yea it was perfect
I hold it in my mind

Yeah we own the night

When the summer rolls around
And the sun starts sinking down
I still remember you
Oh I remember you
And I wonder where you are
Are you looking at those same stars again
Do you remember when

We woke under a blanket
All tangled up in skin
Not knowing in that moment
We'd never speak again
But it was perfect
I never will forget

When we owned the night
Yeah we owned the night