The Call

Album: single release only (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song draws on a rough patch Brooks went though with Trisha Yearwood before he married her in 2005. "It's about that point in a relationship when you make the decision whether what you have is worth fighting for, or is it just easier to call it 'friends' and live life from there," he told Country Aircheck.
  • The recording is a stark live acoustic performance from Brooks' show at the Wynn Las Vegas, which features Yearwood. "We tried cutting this song with a full band, but kept going back to the Wynn performance, where it's just like two people talking to each other," he noted. "The echo-type piece in this is something I haven't seen since 'Mockingbird' with James Taylor and Carly Simon. I love how unique this song sounds, and when you bring it down to just two voices and a guitar, the conversation happens."

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