Songfacts®:

• Jason Isbell's 10th album, Foxes in the Snow, was partly influenced by his divorce from Amanda Shires, his wife of 11 years and former bandmate. It ends on a lighter note with this song written specifically for his younger brother and his wife as a first dance for their wedding.
• This is not typical Isbell territory. He's not known for taking requests. But when the bride-to-be asked if he'd write a first dance song for the wedding, he said yes. "Since you're bold enough to come out and ask, I'll do it," he told Uncut magazine. "So that's what I did. I played it for their first dance and it just felt right for the end of the record."
• The song is about commitment - not as a guarantee of lifelong bliss, but as an act of meaning in itself. The title, "Wind Behind the Rain," suggests something quietly powerful: the unseen force that keeps things moving forward even during storms. Love, in this case, becomes a kind of gentle propulsion.
  
  "I want people to understand that I believe there's still always a reason to commit to something," Isbell told Billboard. "Whether it's a person or a belief or a way of life. The process of committing yourself is so much more valuable than how it turns out."
• He's played countless sold-out shows, but Isbell admitted he was more nervous performing at the wedding than he would be at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. "It's crazy," he said. "Because of how much it meant to them."
• Foxes in the Snow is Isbell's first fully solo acoustic album and his first since his 2007 debut Sirens of the Ditch not to feature any members of his longtime band The 400 Unit.