On July 24th, 2010, Luke Bryan’s “Rain is a Good Thing” climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart. The Georgia native, a son of a peanut farmer, co-wrote the tune with his dear friend Dallas Davidson (“Country Girl,” “That’s My Kind of Night,” “All About Tonight,” “Gimme That Girl”), based on a saying they’d have back in college.
“Rain makes corn/corn makes whiskey/whiskey makes my baby/feel a little frisky.”
“The song came about from strictly an old saying that me and my co-writer [Dallas Davidson] in college, we’d have something planned and we’d get bummed out by the rain,” says Luke. “We’d be like, ‘Well, rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey,” and we’d never even said the frisky line. We actually made that up in the writing session.”
Luke hits the festival circuit this week with a date during Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming on Wednesday (July 26th), followed by a show Friday (July 28th) in Central Point, Oregon and a performance during the Mountain Home Music Festival on Saturday (July 29th).
Audio / Luke Bryan talks about his No. 1 song “Rain is a Good Thing.”
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“The song came about from strictly an old saying that me and my co-writer [Dallas Davidson] in college, we’d have something planned and we’d get bummed out by the rain. We’d be like, ‘Well, rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey,” and we’d never even said the frisky line. We actually made that up in the writing session.”
