** Each week I measure the #1 song of the week in “Measuring a Hit” for you to readily see common threads in today's biggest hits. A post titled “A Closer Look” follows in a few days that brings a few craft issues of the song to your attention.
Among the vast stream of demos publishers delivered to Tracy Lawrence when he put word out that he would be recording again, the Casey Beathard/Ed Hill creation, “Find Out Who Your Friends Are”, quickly caught the attention of Lawrence when he heard it.
“I loved the lyric”, Lawrence says. “I thought it had such a great message to it – a universal message about how when you’re down on your luck, you really find out who your true friends are. I’ve learned to appreciate that message a lot more as I’ve gotten older.”
Look at my mark up of this lyric for a few notes.
