Parker McCollum has released a performance music video for the song “Things I Never Told You,” from his sold-out headlining show at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. In the clip, photos of his mother are interspersed between live shots from the arena.
He chose “Things I Never Told You” to put on his Never Enough album because it completely reminded him of his mother.
“My buddy Taylor Phillips sent this song to me one day. He wrote it with Lynn Hutton and Monty Criswell and just one time through…I didn’t even listen to the whole song, but halfway through after the first chorus, I said, ‘I’m in. I’m singing that song,” recalls Parker. “It reminded me so much of my mom and I knew she would love to hear it. I didn’t tell her anything about it. I had her come to one of tour rehearsals this year and played it for her there, full band with the whole production and everything and the empty amphitheater. It was kind of cool. But I cut that just for her and thought it was such an amazing song. There’s a line in it that said, ‘I kept a well-hidden can of Skoal in the console of my Chevy.’ I actually really did in high school. I had a secret compartment in the center console of my Chevy truck that I kept a can of dip in. So just it kind of hit home and it’s just a great song.”
The Texas native will take his Burn It Down Tour to Salina, Kansas on Thursday (May 2nd), Rogers, Arkansas on Friday (May 3rd) and Columbia, Missouri on Saturday (May 4th).
Audio / Parker McCollum talks about the song, “Things I Never Told You.”
DownloadParker McCollum (Things I Never Told You) OC: …a great song. :59
“This song, it’s the only song on the record I didn’t write. I wanted to cut one outside song for this record. People send me songs all the time and very, very, very rarely does one ever really catch my attention and stand out, and my buddy Taylor Phillips sent this song to me one day. He wrote it with Lynn Hutton and Monty Criswell and just one time through…I didn’t even listen to the whole song, but halfway through after the first chorus, I said, ‘I’m in. I’m singing that song.’ It reminded me so much of my mom and I knew she would love to hear it. I didn’t tell her anything about it. I had her come to one of tour rehearsals this year and played it for her there, full band with the whole production and everything and the empty amphitheater. It was kind of cool. But I cut that just for her and thought it was such an amazing song. There’s a line in it that said, ‘I kept a well-hidden can of Skoal in the console of my Chevy.’ I actually really did in high school. I had a secret compartment in the center console of my Chevy truck that I kept a can of dip in. So just it kind of hit home and it’s just a great song.”
