After Baldridge shared a bit of the song on his various social media channels, it instantly hit a nerve with listeners. It was a gut feeling that proved to be right.
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“I just got to thinking, 'Man, how much more real can we get than just having this guy actually leave a voicemail?' I've never heard that in a song before. “When I write songs, I just try to make them real as possible,” explains Baldridge, who has been busy headlining his wildly successful Baldridge and Bonfires Tour, performing over 200 dates in the past 18 months. The relatability of the song is even more so considering that Baldridge was dead set about making the first verse stand out in some way, which he succeeded in doing by speaking during a portion of the verse as if he was actually recording a voicemail to the one that left.
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Written by the Illinois native alongside songwriters Dylan Marlowe and Juno Bell, “Wontcha Come Back Home” tells the story of a girl leaving a relationship and her guy realizing that he really messed up. “You're fighting, you're mad, you're angry…and then they pull out of the driveway, and you instantly regret it.” “How many people have been in that situation in life where you messed up in a relationship or you did something wrong or you can't admit that you're wrong?” says Baldridge, who in the last nine months alone has independently released five new songs and crossed over 120 million catalog streams. “I think at first it was kind of difficult for her, but now she's just like, ‘Oh, you wrote another love song about somebody from your past.’ She gets it now.”Īnd yes, Baldridge found himself pulling from his past when writing his new song “Wontcha Come Back Home,” which premieres exclusively on Taste of Country.