In a recent interview, this is what Mat Kearney had to say about Lifeline:
"Lifeline was actually one of the songs that I wrote with one of my friends from Nashville and that's something on this record that I'm really proud of. Like, my last record I wrote almost everything by myself. For some reason in this record, being in Nashville, being in the community, I really wanted to invite people in to the process. It's like, it's very much in the history of Nashville music, you know. Johnny Cash could write the greatest song in the world, but he would also invite Kris Kristofferson, and his wife. And something about Nashville and just the rich, the wealth of songwriters, I wanted to invite friends in. And I didn't go after big names, I just went after like, the local artists that I really respected, you know the guys that work at the coffee shop, or the guys that I met at some show. Lifeline started out in my living room and we just started writing it and I liked it. So I recorded it."
In a recent interview, this is what Mat Kearney had to say about Lifeline:
"Lifeline was actually one of the songs that I wrote with one of my friends from Nashville and that's something on this record that I'm really proud of. Like, my last record I wrote almost everything by myself. For some reason in this record, being in Nashville, being in the community, I really wanted to invite people in to the process. It's like, it's very much in the history of Nashville music, you know. Johnny Cash could write the greatest song in the world, but he would also invite Kris Kristofferson, and his wife. And something about Nashville and just the rich, the wealth of songwriters, I wanted to invite friends in. And I didn't go after big names, I just went after like, the local artists that I really respected, you know the guys that work at the coffee shop, or the guys that I met at some show. Lifeline started out in my living room and we just started writing it and I liked it. So I recorded it."