![]() ![]() It's just a song about the person that you love and that you miss and that you still believe in, and that's the only thing that you have to hold onto sometimes. "At least a hundred times, I've awakened at 4:03 in the morning, and it's usually from missin' her. "For some reason, I would always wake up, and I still do to this day,” he said. It becomes apparent in talking to Smith that his girlfriend became a major factor in his recovery, his return to the studio (where the album took 18 months to complete), and his eventual return to the road where, like the song says, he has trouble sleeping at night when Ashley isn't there. He told Smith to take all the time he needed.īy this time, Smith had crossed paths with his old friend Ashley again in Florida, and friendship had turned into love. But Kallman - an "amazing guy,” Smith said - apparently thought the singer had earned a break. "He was like, ‘Are we going to gonna get another record in six months?' And I said, ‘There's no way in hell.' And he said, ‘Well, what do you need from me?' And I said, ‘No time limit at all.' And he was like, ‘Well, does that mean like a year, does that mean a year and three months?' I just said, ‘That means no time limit.'”Ī lot of other industry suits would have shown this guy the door. When he was rested enough to make the trip, Smith paid a visit to Atlantic Records Chairman Craig Kallman in New York. "I'd gone through tons of addictions, and my body was just beat up, and my brain was just gone, and I had to take some time off from everything.” "Honestly, I had to take about a month and a half off after we finished ‘Us and Them' to just kind of decompress, because I just wasn't myself anymore,” he said. Meanwhile they were earning a rep as one of the hottest live bands on the festival circuit with a nonstop touring schedule that was beginning to take its toll on Smith. "Us and Them” followed in 2005 with more fierce yet melodic guitar-vocal attacks that racked up gold-level sales. Shinedown went on to record and release its first album in 2003, "Leave a Whisper,” which unleashed the hit singles "Fly From the Inside” and "45” on its way to platinum status. "She was in a relationship with a drummer in another band that was signed to Atlantic,” Smith said. Since forming Shinedown with drummer Barry Kerch in 2001 in Jacksonville, Fla., Smith has been on the road almost nonstop, especially after Atlantic Records signed the band - on the strength of a demo that was placed in the hands of one of the label's artist-and-repertoire men by the future Mrs. It's about what she's been through with me and the fact that it's about missin' her because I'm gone a lot.” We've known each other goin' on about 11 years, and we have a 6-month-old little boy together, and we recently got engaged. ![]() "I had to go back on it because I had a reason to. ![]()
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