A True Friend Won't Let You Drown

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It is the newest song on the record. I wrote it with my friend Gary Nicholson [one of Nashville’s top songwriters]. About a week after Hurricane Katrina hit, I played with Chris Thomas King, a good friend of mine from New Orleans, at a festival in Nashville. He had lost nearly everything there. He has a lot of pride and a very independent personality. People showed such an outpouring of love and friendship towards him, and it surprised him. Well, if someone is your friend you won’t let anything terrible happen to them, if you can help it. That is the simplest thing.