This song was co-written by Kent Blazy and Garth Brooks. It reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, returning Garth to the top ten after his previous single “We Shall Be Free” became his first release to stall outside it. It was released in October 1992 as the second single from his album “The Chase” and his fifteenth overall.

This song was first released by Asleep at the Wheel in on their 1990 album “Keepin’ me Up Nights.” This band used as the B side to the single “My Next Broken Heart’. It marked the fourth consecutive single released by the duo to go to number one on the US Billboard Hot Country singles and tracks chart. Here is Brooks and Dunn’s “Boot-Scootin’ Boogie”.

Jim McBride co-wrote this song with Alan Jackson. It received CMA awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year in 1993.