Chris Jansonâs wife-inspired single, âDone,â ascended to the top of the Billboard Country Airplay chart this week. Penned by Chris, Mitch Oglesby, Jamie Paulin and Matt Roy, âDoneâ is featured on Chrisâ 2019 album, Real Friends.
More so than any other tune on the 13-song album that Chris co-produced, âDoneâ had to fit a very specific concept Chris had in mind. As Chris told Kix Brooks of American Country Countdown, he wanted âDoneâ to sound somewhere between George Straitâs 1998 hit, âTrue,â and The Wallflowersâ 1997 hit, âOne Headlight.â
âYeah, the song kind of demanded [different production], but, you know, I produced everything on the new record,â says Chris to Kix. âBut, I donât know, âDoneâ just kind of called for it. And, Iâll tell ya, I did kind of directionalize it a littleâI donât know if thatâs a wordâbut I set a tone for it. And, I wanted it to sound like a 1995, â96, â97 George Strait four-week number one. I wanted it to sound like, [Chris sings]True like the sun cominâ up each morninâ. I wanted it to sound like [Straitâs âTrueâ], you know? Somewhere between that and âOne Headlightâ by The Wallflowers, so we fell right in the middle of that.â
âDoneâ follows Chrisâ previous Billboard Country Airplay chart-topper, âGood Vibes.
photo by Tammie Arroyo, AFF-USA.com