Josh Turner (I Saw the Light) OC: …the record. 1:20

“I feel like “I Saw the Light” kind of paints the picture of what this whole record is all about. It’s taking something that’s old and making it fresh. And I’ve always been a huge Hank Williams fan. I always loved his version. And so, when we decided to do this song for this record, I’m sitting here thinking how in the world am I going to do ‘I Saw the Light’ to where it sounds like me. So, I started listening to every other version that’s ever been done to this song, and they all just sounded so happy and like there was just something missing in those versions and I couldn’t figure out what it was. Well, this one particular night, I’m lying in bed and couldn’t quit thinking about it, and so all the sudden the inspiration hits me, and I figured out what it was lacking, and I figured out that the guy in this song he eventually sees the light. Like it’s a redemptive song but you can’t recognize light until you’ve been through the darkness. So, I wanted to kind of bring that tone musically to that song and so I jumped up out of bed, I grabbed my guitar and my phone and started recording how I felt like it should go ,and literally I think pretty much like 98% of what I jumped up out of bed and played that night was what happened on the record.’