‘It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To’ Is a Special Song to Billy Currington

See what else Currington told us about “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To” and how his songwriting has evolved over the years.  

Written by Lauren Laffer
‘It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To’ Is a Special Song to Billy Currington
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Billy Currington recently released “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To,” the third single from his Summer Forever album, to Country radio.

The song is one of the Georgia native’s favorites, but not just because it’s the only one of the album’s 12 tracks he had a hand in writing.

“I played ‘It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To’ to every show last year and I saw people singing it,” Currington told Sounds Like Nashville. “I was like ‘wait! They know this song!’ That’s really cool when people know a song from your album and singing every word and it’s never been on the radio. That right there is very special to me.”

The song was one that he wrote with Cary Barlowe and Shy Carter on a day where they weren’t expecting to write a song.

“It was just an accident the way it was written.  It just kind of fell out in an hour or so and we didn’t have a title. We didn’t have no ideas, no nothing,” said Currington. “We didn’t even know we were writing a song. We just knew that we were hanging out with each other and having some good laughs and it just became a special song to me.”

The singer is currently out on his Summer Forever Tour, which wraps in Tampa, FL on April 16.

See what else Billy Currington told us about “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To” and how his songwriting has evolved over the years in the video below.