Parker McCollum is closing in on the top of the country chart with his latest smash “Handle On You.” He co-wrote the gold-certified song with his buddy Monty Criswell, and he said he loves collaborating with the hit songwriter.

“You know, he had a title ‘Handle On You’ and I don’t like titles. I usually tell them to put their titles away and write from the heart and write something that makes me feel something,” recalls Parker. “But he had the title ‘Handle On You,’ and I just kind of thought it was clever. He kind of caught me on the right day with that one and I said ‘Man, let’s write it.’ It’s kind of an old school country vibe.  So, I just started picking on this melody on my guitar and he really dug it and kind of started that first verse. And he was really the one that kind of started the Tennessee or Kentucky thing and it just kind of went from there.  It’s such a pleasure writing with him. He’s got a crazy talent for writing with an artist and letting them kind of take the lead and write to them, which is really cool.”

“Handle On You” is from his upcoming album, Never Enough, available May 12th.