I don’t care.’ We just started talking about where she grew up, and I mean, it’s very similar to how I grew up in Pennsylvania.”

“But the way that she did it, I was like, ‘This sounds great. “For the last five years, anytime somebody says, ‘Pickup truck,’ in a co-write, everybody kind of just rolls their eyes,” says Laird. She also expected they would resist that title, though they did their best to hide their doubts when she floated it. “I knew that they would be the people who could make it sound fresh.” “I had the title, and I knew that they would be the people to write it with that didn’t make it sound like ‘My tractor is green, and my cow goes moo,’” she says with a laugh. It was a cheap night out in a town with few entertainment options, and it was an experience that Ashton knew firsthand.īut she also knew “Dates in Pickup Trucks” needed some out-of-the-tailgate thinking, so she saved the title until a writing appointment with Luke Laird (“AA,” “Tequila Little Time”) and David Garcia (“Meant To Be,” “Drinking Alone”) at Garcia’s studio in Nashville’s Berry Hill neighborhood. Juanita, giggling gleefully, had told Ashton in a phone call that she had packed a dinner and gone on a romantically nostalgic ride with Carl, driving down the back roads of central Missouri in their truck. “Dates in Pickup Trucks” is a much gentler storyline than that history might imply, a plot inspired by Ashton’s grandparents, Carl and Juanita Meisenheimer. Really, I classify it as power females - like if a female sounded like she would smack the shit out of you. “Because not only did we play classic country in my house, but we also played soul music. “I naturally sing behind the beat just based off what I grew up listening to,” Ashton says.

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