Lady Antebellum has released the deluxe version of Golden, featuring their latest hit, “Compass,” as well as two other new songs, including “And the Radio Played.” Lady A’s Dave Haywood says the song reminds him of listening to the radio growing up.

“What I loved about this song was that every single one of these song titles that we reference has such a distinct memory to a certain point of time growing up. We thought it’d be great to have a song that mentions these songs because it makes you think about the memories. Instead of just listing out the memories, we list out the songs, and you go straight to those places,” says Dave. “So, it was a really cool way to acknowledge a lot of the greats before us in country music.”

The band will perform on Katie Thursday (November 14th) and The Late Show with David Letterman on Friday (November 15th). They’ll also be recording songs for a Live on Letterman segment that will stream on Thursday.

Lady A (And the Radio Played) 1 OC: …country music. :45
“‘And the Radio Played’ was a song that started originally with Josh Kear and Charles [Kelley] had started writing this and brought it to us, and we were with our producer, Nathan Chapman. And so, we all got in there, me and Hillary and everybody, and worked on the second verse and worked on this last verse. But what I loved about this song was that every single one of these song titles that we reference has such a distinct memory to a certain point of time growing up. We thought it’d be great to have a song that mentions these songs because it makes you think about the memories. Instead of just listing out the memories, we list out the songs, and you go straight to those places. So, it was a really cool way to acknowledge a lot of the greats before us in country music, a really cool way to tip our hat to a lot of songs that, I mean, when were 10 years old, 15, growing up even younger than that, getting turned on to country music.”