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Chayce Beckham on How His New Single ‘Everything I Need’ Puts a Sunny Spin on Modern Life’s Complications
This week's Makin' Tracks features Chayce Beckham's new country radio single "Everything I Need."
In addition to all the old stuff – keeping gas in the tank and air in the tires, picking up the kids on time, stressing out over an unreasonable boss – the digital age has piled on more issues: endless passcodes, inconvenient Windows updates, social media trolls and dead phone batteries. Beckham brought along a pair of songwriters, John Pierce (“Sweet Annie,” “Your Heart Or Mine”) and Lindsay Rimes (“World On Fire,” “Cool Again”), for what proved to be a productive run. Pierce concocted a phrase – “postcard maker” – to describe a sunny day at the end of the first verse, segueing into the chorus, where the tune brightened and the storyline turned fully away from problems to very basic positives: “I’m alive and I’m breathing.”
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