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Chris Stapleton stated via iHeart Country: "White Horse" was a song that I wrote with my friend, Dan Wilson. We were out in Los Angeles, it was about I think probably late 2012, early 2013, and there was a movie called The Lone Ranger that was coming out, and I walked in the room to write with Dan at his house, and he said, "Hey they're looking for songs for this Lone Ranger movie."
Rolling Stone described "White Horse" as "[p]erhaps the most unconvincing anti-drug song of all time". [5] An article in Miami New Times listed it as one of the "top 10 cocaine songs" and stated, "It's often debated whether the white horse in this song refers to cocaine or heroin. Either way, Laid Back's 1983 single starts out persuading you ...
Swift included "White Horse" in the set list of her first headlining concert tour, the Fearless Tour (2009–2010), where she performed the song by herself on an acoustic guitar. [89] At the Los Angeles concert on May 22, 2009, she sang "White Horse" in a duet with the singer-songwriter John Mayer. [90]
During her second Eras Tourshow at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Saturday, Oct. 19, Swift, 34, sang a particular lyric from her 2008 song “White Horse” in a new surprise songs mashup ...
His first solo album, Traveller, was an old-school country, Southern rock and bluegrass record; [91] [92] his second, From A Room: Volume 1, focused on country, blues and roots rock. [93] He played acoustic guitar and electric guitar on both albums. [94] [95] Stapleton is a soul singer [96] with a tenor vocal range.
Stapleton first sang his version on the spur of the moment while the band was playing during a soundcheck before a show in Charlottesville, Virginia. Stapleton and the band enjoyed playing the song, and he decided to sing the song every show. [13] His producer Dave Cobb heard the song and suggested that he should record the song for his album. [14]
Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox, [1] was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970.
On television, Alyson Michalka sang the song in episode "Fancy Dan" (S1: E16) of Hellcats in 2011. The song was played during Parks and Recreation in the episode " Li'l Sebastian " (S3: E16) as background music to Li'l Sebastian's memorial service, during the Season 1 finale of BoJack Horseman in the episode "Later", and in Episode 11, Season 5 ...