Songfacts®:

• Born and raised in Shreveport, Jordan Davis has never been shy about wearing his Louisiana roots on his sleeve, and "Louisiana Stick" is about as homegrown as it gets. The song paints a sultry, moonlit picture of the Bayou State, tempting a would-be lover - someone unimpressed by the bright lights of California and New York - to trade skyscrapers for cypress trees, swamplands, and the syncopated rhythms of Zydeco. You can almost smell the moss and hear the frogs.
• Marcus King provides guest harmonies and a ferocious, bluesy guitar riff that makes the whole track sweat a little more. While "Louisiana Stick" is King's first formal studio collaboration with a mainstream country star, he's hardly a stranger to the scene. His career has often run parallel to country music; he's shared stages with Chris Stapleton at events like the Crossroads Guitar Festival and the Grand Ole Opry, and his own records, such as El Dorado (2020), carry the fingerprints of Nashville royalty, including songwriting sessions with Paul Overstreet.
• Davis co-wrote "Louisiana Stick" with King, Chase McGill, Ashley Gorley, and his producer Paul DiGiovanni. The title isn't just a catchy phrase; it's a callback to Davis' high school nickname, "Stick Figure."
  
  "I'd always had an idea of writing a song called Louisiana Stick," Davis explained. "And I was able to kind of capture this one day on a writer's retreat. Then one of my favorite people out there, Marcus King, got on it, and it just took it to the next level. This is a song I've been trying to write for a long time."
• Under DiGiovanni's production, Davis' warm, conversational vocals take on a rock edge, a gearshift from the tender, radio-friendly country hits he's known for such as "Slow Dance In A Parking Lot" or "Buy Dirt."
  
  The result is part swamp serenade, part roadhouse stomp; a love letter to Louisiana with enough grit to leave dirt on your boots.
• Jordan Davis has drawn on his Louisiana heritage before, most notably on "Leaving New Orleans," a track from his 2018 debut album, Home State, which is a farewell to New Orleans. Also, his 2023 hit "Tucson Too Late" was originally conceived as "Tulane Too Late," a wordplay referencing both Tulane University (in New Orleans) and the phrase "too little too late." Davis and the other songwriters later shifted the setting to Arizona, changing the title to "Tucson Too Late" but the original inspiration came from Tulane University and Louisiana roots.