When the guys in Eli Young Band were thinking about songs to put on their new Greatest Hits album,
do you know that they actually had an album they released before they were signed to the
Big Machine label group? And they decided to go back to that album and pick a couple of songs
from there to put on the Greatest Hits. Now, the first one that we're going to play, it's called
Small Town Kid. For anybody who grew up in a small town, this was Mike Eli's tribute to his
small town upbringing. And more importantly, this song taught Mike something about himself
as an artist. Who I was in high school, where I grew up, like it felt very small town. Everybody
knew what was happening in everybody's lives. And everything was changing. And a lot of people were
moving there. They built this highway. And so the access to our town was just changing dramatically.
And that was kind of like where I was going with writing that song. And then it ended up kind of,
I think, being this ode to being proud of where you came from. But I think that that song for me
was my first outing of figuring out, hey, I can write a song. That's cool.
Like I said, this song was off of Eli Young Band's very first album back in 2005. It was called Level.
This is Small Town Kid and you'll find it on This Is Eli Young Band Greatest Hits, which is available now.