CMIL Exclusive: Parmalee Dishes On New Single, Young Love
Parmalee’s latest single “Already Callin’ You Mine” hit the airwaves just in time for Valentine’s Day this month, but the sweet song is looking like it will be sticking around for a while.
“It’s a song about the moment when it really clicks, and you’re really into somebody,” Parmalee’s Matt Thomas tells CountryMusicIsLove. “Like ‘I’m all in with this person.’ I think everybody’s had that moment. I kind of explain it by saying that minute you change your Facebook status from single to in-a-relationship.”
When CMIL asked Matt about his own experience with young love, all he could do was laugh.
“When I was in fifth grade, I gave this girl a love note; I told her I had to give her something, and I pulled it out of my pocket and I snuck a kiss in real quick,” Matt recalls. “She ran off. Yep. My first experience with love.”
Matt and the band–which is comprised of his brother Scott Thomas, cousin Barry Knox and friend Joshua McSwain–have certainly come a long way since scaring girls off on the playground, having spent plenty of time singing love songs on the road with the likes of Jake Owen and, lately, Brad Paisley.
“It’s always been a family band. We started, me and Scott are brothers and Barry’s our first cousin. We just grew up playing together and my dad, he taught us how to play. So we met Josh in college and we all came from a musical family. We met him and we started writing our own music — it just kind of worked its way out.”
Writing and rehearsing in a cement barn in Parmalee, North Carolina, Matt said that the best advice they got was to keep working hard. After spending time on the local circuit and ultimately landing a record deal, Parmalee moved to Nashville. Since then, they’ve continued writing and recording, landing songs like “Carolina” and “Close Your Eyes” on the charts as well as stuck in the heads of country fans all over. Matt says that infectious quality is part of what makes a good song a keeper.
“If you wake up singing it, and you just keep going over and over it, that’s the idea,” he says.
Check out “Already Callin’ You Mine” below and see if you’re waking up singing it, too.
