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Singer-songwriter Trent Willmon sat down with The Boot to talk about Steel Magnolia's debut hit, 'Keep on Lovin' You,' which he wrote with Chris Stapleton, who is also lead singer of the bluegrass band the SteelDrivers.Chris is about my favorite person to write with. He the best singer in Nashville by far. He just has a way with melodies. It seems like whenever he starts singing, whatever words come out of his mouth sound like a song. The title was something that just fell out of Chris' mouth. He picked up his old Gibson guitar that is maybe 60 years old, and he just started singing [the lyrics]. It really didn't take long. We wrote it in probably a couple of hours. It was just one of those days.
Originally the song was kind of a slower groove, kind of a Josh Turner-type song. When Chris sang the song on the work-tape, it sounded great. A couple of months had gone by, and we never demoed the song. I started playing it for my band down in Texas because I was looking for new songs to do. We were in Corpus Christi at soundcheck, and we worked up the song. We had a couple of hours to kill.
Just because of the nature of my band, it ended up sounding like Los Lonely Boys and Otis Redding. I played it out live for over a year. When we finally went in to demo the song, I talked to Chris about being there at the demo session, but he had to be out of town. I just cut it like my band. Chris came back later and sang it on the demo, and it just came to life. It was a totally different song than it was when we wrote it. It had a really uptempo thing instead of a slow, sweet groove. It was a fun, upbeat, R&B groove. In the long run, it was a perfect song for Steel Magnolia.
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