Scotty McCreery just dropped the lyric video for “Live A Little,” a song McCreery wrote with Aaron Eshuis and Blake Chaffin, and is part of his Same Truck: The Deluxe Album, out now.
The uptempo song, which says in part, “I wanna go five hundred miles an hour / Kiss you on top of the Eiffel Tower / We can hop on a plane right now / Baby, it’s that simple, it’s that simple / ‘Cause I wanna go skydiving over Diamond Head / Climb the tallest mountain, look out over the edge / Find a nowhere dance floor, spin you around in the middle / Girl, I’m dyin’ to live a little,” is one of six songs McCreery added to his original Same Truck album, released in 2021.
“We had a ton of songs ready to go, and we even had to narrow it down from stuff we’d recorded to make the deluxe album” McCreery explains to Everything Nash. “But the way we made the Same Truck record was kind of in two different parts because of the pandemic. So the more recent stuff with the recency bias won out, but I still loved all these other songs we had, so I’m glad with this deluxe album, we found a home for them, and can get them out there in the world, and hopefully people enjoy them.”
The 29-year-old already released “Nothin’ Right” and “Small Town Story” from Same Truck: The Deluxe Album, but his favorite track from the record is one that is much more personal, and reminds him of his wife, Gabi.
“I love them all. For me, one that I go back to a lot — the groove, everything about ‘Falling For a Stranger’ is one that I really love,” McCreery says. “It’s that sentiment. Me and Gabi, we’ve known each other our whole lives, so she never really was a stranger to me. But the idea behind it of just like, ‘Man, if I never knew you, and you walked in to a bar, I would have locked in on you right away.’ So that one is cool for me.”
McCreery returns to touring on November 30, after spending several weeks at home soaking up time with his baby boy, Merrick Avery. He will perform as part of the annual Opry Country Christmas celebration on December 4. Purchase Same Truck: The Deluxe Album, and find music and tour dates at ScottyMcCreery.com.
