Kristian Bush was such a delight to talk to. The writer behind many of my favorite Sugarland songs, I was excited to sit down with him and hear how being a solo artist is different than being in a duo and where his song ideas come from.
“You’ll notice that it’s me singing and that will really tie it together,” he said with a laugh.
The first single off of his debut solo album Southern Gravity is “Trailer Hitch,” which came to be after a writer friend of his walked out the door and said, “I’ve never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch.” Kristian knew immediately they had to work on a song that discussed that exact sentiment.
“As we went through it, it was very easy to walk into the shoes of, ‘Let’s write a song that’s fun that has a message that also matters. Let’s just not bang over anybody’s head with it.’ We probably have one too many things in our life. All of us. We can probably give at least one of them back or away,” he said. “You can’t take it with you when you go. It is a question and it isn’t an answer of a song. It’s just a question, why do we all want to die rich? Isn’t there something we can do with that?”
In addition to making the listener ask questions, Kristian hopes to cast a spell on his listeners.
“I would say the spell that I’m casting is love the life that you’re in. Stop wishing for it to be something else. Be comfortable with who you are and then watch dreams explode on you,” he said. “Anything is possible.”
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