This is Bubba Shot The Podcast. First, the facts. Friends in low places is a song recorded

and released in 1990 as the lead single from Garth's, I think, second album, No Fences.

It's been four weeks as number one on the hot country songs and won the Academy of Country

Music and the Country Music Association Awards for 1990 single of the year. It was written

by Earl Budley and Dwayne Blackwell. They gave the song to Brooks to record as a demo before

he was ever anybody. But then he signed his deal and this one almost didn't make it to

a Brooks album and in fact was recorded by Mark Chestnut, the performer of the track we named

this podcast after Bubba Shot The Jute Box. But Mark's version didn't take off and Garth's did.

That is Country Music History, gentlemen. What a classic. What a day. I'm so excited. I hope you

love it. That's been in us to me because like I obviously I know that like a performer has so much

to do with how good a song is. But this is one of those songs to me that I would have thought

anybody with any bit of talent, which clearly Mark Chestnut has, that it would have been a smash hit.

You know what I mean? That's kind of wilder here. I was going to, yeah, I've never heard that before.

So Mark Chestnut recorded and released it and it just didn't like because I feel the exact same

way Corey filled. Hell, this song is mostly sung by the people listening to it. It's such a

like criminal sing along. I don't know if I misspoke or just like our wires cross here. He did

record it. He did release it. But he did it the same year. And now I don't know how that works

in terms of how they pulled all this off. So the story goes that Blackwell, Dwayne Blackwell and

Earl Lee Bud, which did, I mean, what any order of them names is it's a hundred goals.

Bud sounds like one of my, one of Thompson's hippie dads from homies. Yeah, he smokes in the morning

mostly. Yeah. Well, on that note, it weighed seed coming over. That was hard to like.

Real guy by the way. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. I did it backwards. It's Earl Bud Lee.

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