Songfacts®:

• Chris Stapleton wrote this ballad with his wife Morgane in 2015 about his decision to bid farewell to the place that shaped him.
  
  So long, Nashville, Tennessee
  You can't have what's left of me
  And as far as I can tell
  It's high time, I wish you well
• Stapleton broke out as a solo artist in 2015 after a Justin Timberlake collaboration at the CMAs. Their fiery medley of "Tennessee Whiskey" and Timberlake's "Drink You Away" made a star of Stapleton, and his Nashville home became a tourist attraction.
  
  "All of a sudden there's a bus with people from four states away showing up in my driveway while I'm trying to play ball with my kids," he recalled to the LA Times. "I'm not complaining, but I'd spent 37 years not living in that space. I had to get away from the anxiety of that bus rolling up twice a day."
  
  Stapleton and his family moved south of Nashville on a ranch in Franklin, Tennessee, far removed from a tourist bus stop.
• Stapleton recruited one of the best Nashville session musicians, Paul Franklin, to add steel guitar while Benmont Tench of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers plays Hammond B3.