Anderson recalled: "Brad called me one day on the phone, and said, 'I've been listening to this "Whiskey Lullaby," what would you think if I brought a girl to sing on that second verse?" And I said, 'I've never thought of that. Then Brad Paisley heard the tune and spotted its potential as a duet. However, he added, "people weren't lined up down the street looking for double-suicide drinking songs, so it sat on the shelf for five years."ĭixie Chicks were the first act to have the song on hold had but their career imploded in the meantime.
Jon loved that line so we wrote it down and then he said, "Here's a line here: 'He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.'" I said, 'Well, let's forget about the 'Midnight Cigarette.' Man, you've got the perfect idea for the song there.' And it just kind of flowed there."ĭuring an interview included in Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits by Jake Brown, Anderson said that he and Jon Randall wrote the tune back in 2000 as something to be sung by one person. "I went to the writing session with the idea to write a song called, 'Midnight Cigarette.' Basically that turned out to be the first line of 'Whiskey Lullaby': 'She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette.' That was what I wanted to write the whole song about. He said, 'Man, I'm sorry for the way I've acted the last couple of weeks.' And his friend said to him, 'That's alright Jon, I've put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger a few times in my life.' So when Jon came to the writing session, that was fresh on his mind." When he decided to sober up and come back and join the living again, he apologized to his friend. And he went over to a friend's house and crashed for a couple of weeks.
He had gotten a divorce and lost his writing deal and his record deal all within just a day or two of each other. Jon was going through some pretty rough times back then. Anderson told AOL's The Boot the story behind the song: "Jon Randall and I wrote the song together. The song was written by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall and was inspired by a difficult time that Randall was going through including a divorce from country star Lorrie Morgan.
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