Songfacts®:

• This is Chase Bryant's debut single, which he released a year after signing with Red Bow Records in August 2013. Bryant penned the song with New Jersey native Dylan Altman (Jason Aldean's "Take a Little Ride") and Virginia-born songwriter Tommy Lee James (Tim McGraw's "She's My Kind Of Rain").
• Chase Bryant is the grandson of Jimmy Bryant, a musician who performed for Roy Orbison. The Wes Edwards directed video was in a way inspired by his granddad's love of the railway. "My grandfather was super into trains," Bryant told People. "He was fascinated by them and collected them his entire life. In fact, when he got really sick with cancer, for his last Christmas, my family and I made him this elaborate running train set with all the works. There were railroad tracks by my grandfather's house but trains didn't run through there very often. On the day my grandfather died - at the very moment it happened, I kid you not - a huge freight train came barreling down that track."
  
  Edwards' idea for a train-themed video was completely coincidental. He explained how he came up with the notion in a Songfacts interview: "'Take it on back' implies that you're moving somewhere, you're taking it on back. I tried to think of a vehicle that's retro, and I thought, well, a train. You can take it on back in a train, and it's a retro throwback to travel, and it's powerful. And when you listen to the song and you think of trains, it feels like it fits, so I just went with it. But I had no idea that his grandfather was into trains at all. It was one of those lucky accidents."
  
  Bryant knew as soon as he read Edwards' treatment for the clip that this was the storyline he wanted for his first video.
• The train used in the video was courtesy of Nashville's Tennessee Railway museum. Part of the clip was shot during an excursion to nearby Watertown while the train was still moving, and the rest was filmed while it was parked - but Edwards had to concoct a scheme to make it look like the train was still in motion.
  
  He told us: "We had maybe two-and-a-half to three hours of the train actually moving, and when the train was parked, we had to close the curtains or try to come up with ways to make it seem like the train was moving, even though the train was just sitting there. In fact, when the kid is running towards the train at the end, there was a little bit of insider, low-budget, music-video trickery. When the train is not moving, the train is not moving. We didn't have enough money to rent the entire train to make it do what we wanted to do, so at the end when he's running towards the train and he's reaching like it's taking off and he's trying to jump aboard, we actually just had a treadmill there, so it looked like he was running and reaching for the rail. He was just running on a treadmill when everything was static." (Check out our full interview with Wes Edwards.)