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Song Stories

“As She's Walking Away”

Zac Brown Band feat. Alan Jackson | 2010

Written by Zac Brown and his bandmate, Wyatt Durette, "As She's Walking Away" was inspired by a woman in a bar. "We had just played a show in Orlando," Durette recalls. "Zac and I went to a bar in Orlando to watch a UFC fight...It was just one of those circumstances where you see a pretty girl in a bar and you don't have the guts to walk over and say hello to her." Alan Jackson contributed vocals, which undoubtedly helped the tune soar to the top of the charts. The song won the band a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals.

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“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

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