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Zach Top on Revisiting the ’90s — ‘The Peak of Country Music’ — With Throwback ‘Sounds Like The Radio’:

“Literally the day we wrote it, it was like that was meant to be my first single,” Top says.

And, it can be argued, 1994 was the last really good year before the era started to implode as the labels — and, in some cases, the artists themselves — began to sound like caricatures, trying to strike gold by copying what had worked before. Songwriter-producer Carson Chamberlain (Billy Currington, Easton Corbin) played steel guitar with late-’80s icon Keith Whitley and fashioned ’90s hits for Alan Jackson. The start of “My whole life” begins at birth, and as they toyed with that idea, McCubbin popped out a hilarious opening line that introduced the entire ’90s theme: “Well, the day I was born the doc couldn’t believe/I came out cryin’ ‘Chattahoochee.’ ”

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