10 Country Artists Share Their Best Summer Jams

"'Wanna Be That Song' is a song that I got the idea for when I started seeing people getting married to or having their first dance to my song 'Mean to Me.' Or 'Beat of the Music' was the song a couple had heard on their first date. I had these songs that people had as a part of their lives. And I said to myself, 'I want to be that song that is always a part of peoples' lives, that gets you through something; laugh when you need to laugh or cry when you need to cry.' And so it sparked in my mind that was a whole concept right there. It’s probably one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written, and now it's my single."

"'Feelin' It' is the kind of song you can sit back on the beach with your friends and enjoy together. It's all about being relaxed, having fun, and taking a break from anything that stresses you out. It always puts me in a summertime mood, no matter what time of year it is, and I can tell it does the same thing for the audience each night when we play it live. I love bringing out the beach balls during this song in concert and watching the audience have fun with them."

"'Peter Pan' is my favorite song on my album because I feel like every person has been in a relationship where one person is more invested than the other, and that’s a sad kind of heartbreak. Plus, I get to show a different side of myself in this song. I hope you all love it! :)"

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That's heartbreak in a nutshell! It focuses on the positives that can come from whatever is breaking your heart at the moment — a relationship, your career, your health. When you come out on the other side, you are so much stronger because of it."

"'Middle of a Memory' is a song I wrote with Ashley Gorley and Zach Crowell. We were actually writing, for the folks that have got my Down Home Sessions, a song called 'Kiss.' In the second verse of 'Kiss,' it says, 'Girl you left me here with half a beer in the middle of a memory' and we all just kind of stopped and looked at each other, and we were like, 'We gotta write that.' Ashley Gorley said, 'Let's write it right now,' so we stopped in the middle of 'Kiss' and started writing 'Middle of a Memory.' It's just about meeting a girl out and having some drinks, feeling like you already knew each other. Everything was going great, you get out on the dance floor, and right when you get into the first song, y'all are just dancing, her friends come up and — 'Gotta go, so and so is crying in the bathroom . . . we gotta leave.' So her friends pull her away and you don't get her name or number or anything. It kind of says, 'Girl, don't your friends know you can't leave me in the middle of a memory?' So that's how we wrote the song; it's one of my favorites — actually ended up being chosen the second single from my second album."

"'I'd Go Right Now' is a song that takes me straight back to Daphne, AL, where I grew up. When I think about the memories that are in that small town for me, as a kid coming of age, this song resonates deep and paints the picture exactly as I saw it for the first time."

"One day, when I was recording a demo, I accidentally burped into the microphone. The sound engineer started laughing and said, 'well, that was ladylike.' I immediately thought, 'that could be a song!'"

"This song basically makes you everybody's drinkin' buddy! Drink it up!"

"'A Little More Love' isn't just a song — it's a message. It's not a sales pitch trying to get someone to buy into something; it's a reminder that the best things in life are free and right there in front of us like the volume knob on your radio! Hopefully you'll be crankin' it up this Summer!"

"This song reminds me, and hopefully anyone who listens, that youth is only a state of mind and that your 'Prime' is whenever you feel like being a badass. :)"