Luke Bryan (Strip It Down) OC: …you have it. 1:35
“I think my manager Keri called me and said ‘Hey, you want to try writing with some new guys that you wouldn’t necessarily write with or have come in contact with?’ And I said ‘Yeah, who do you got in mind?’ And Ross Copperman’s name came up, and I had met Ross a couple of times and I think I was going to write with Ross and I think Ross called me up and he said, ‘Do you mind if my buddy Jon Nite comes out?’ and I said, ‘Yeah.’ I certainly hadn’t ever met Jon and knew of some of his songs that he was having success with. So, they come out to the house, we get set up and Ross is kind of a track guy like Jody. You know a lot of people are writing with track guys these days and it’s pretty fun that these guys can build these ideas, build these ideas of music and me as a singer I get to kind of sing along with them and write the song. And they came out to the house and we hit it off and we started working on Ross hit the spacebar on his computer and I heard that piano part on ‘Strip It Down,’ or I heard the piano part and we just started doing lyrics and singing lyrics with that mood and then the title ‘Strip It Down’ came out of that. And then we start in that chorus where you talk about, you know, belt turn loose from these old blue jeans and all that stuff was so visual. And I remember we were like feeling really, really good about this song in the moment. We finished writing it. They close up and head home and a couple of days later Jon and Ross got together and finished the track and sang it and the second I heard it I was like home run. Cutting it. There you have it.”