Lost In The Night - Commentary

It's always exciting when we get to share new music from any of our

Big Machine Label Group artists and today we are sharing the new

Album from Midland. It's their sophomore project, Let It Roll

And we've been going track by track, getting Midland's insight into

Each of these songs and "Lost In The Night." I have to admit

I was a little caught off guard when this one first started playing

Because it suddenly caught my attention and I thought, "Who is that

Singing?" And I actually had to look it up on the liner notes. So

First, talk to me about writing "Lost In The Night" and what was

It about this particular song that warranted having Cam sing leads?

Just a quick anecdote about that song is that that music, I had

Written that progression when my cousin Miles passed away and

Didn't really know what to do with it, but it was definitely this

Melancholy cluster of chords. I don't personally enjoy writing

Lyrics by myself, I'm just more of a collaborative writer

I don't know if it's laziness or just self-doubt but when we got

Together and were throwing ideas around with Marv and JT, this

Was at the end of a couple day stint writing and we were, I think

All kind of fresh out of ideas and those chords came out and then

We were in the Midwest, we were on tour with Thomas Rhett

And we'd been on a long haul and all of us hailed from

The West Coast and I think there's a certain West Coast

Yearning in a lot of ways, yearning for Texas, Arizona

Maybe out the West. And that song kind of set itself out West

Marv's from California

Marv's from California, Cam's from California, Jess and I both spent

A lot of time— Jess is from Oregon, from the coast, from the Pacific

So that immediately kind of happened when we got this progression

And, and immediately we were just chasing that Eagles thing and

It was kind of like, "Alright, if Dean Dillon had written with J

D. Souther and with Glenn Frey and the boys," like, that's what we

Were chasing. We wanted that Marina del Rey kind of meets Tequila

Sunrise type vibe and from there we created that progression that

Cameron had and then it really was just everybody's like, "Okay

And then this, and then that," and then it just pieced together

It was very collaborative and out of all the songs that we'd written

When we wrote that one I feel like it was really just piecing

Very colorful lyrically and there's not a lot of lyrics too if

You look at them compared to the amount of lyrics for other songs

It's kind of short, but it's all very colorful content, right?

Yeah, and then it's the choice to have Jess and Cameron sing lead on

Some songs was just a page out of our live book. All three of us are

Singers so that song was a song that, for a lot of reasons, was I

Think deeply personal to Cameron and he wanted a shot at

Singing it and that's the only way that song could have been

Cut. He did such an emotional, great performance. It really

Is awesome and again, people have compared us and we've

Always refused it, but we worship them, the Eagles, and the

Eagles took turns singing songs and that's what a band does

Well, if you've never heard Cam sing leads on one of

Midland's songs, listen up. This is "Lost In The Night"

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