A new version of Cole Swindell‘s multi-week, No. 1 hit, “She Had Me At Heads Carolina,” is out now, featuring Jo Dee Messina. It’s a fitting collaboration, since Swindell paid homage to Messina’s debut single, “Heads Carolina, Tails California,” released in 1996, in his own song.
Swindell announced the remix on social media.
Did y’all really think we were gonna leave you hanging without releasing a version of this song w/ @jodeemessina?!? Such a full circle moment for this here 90’s Country fan… the “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” Remix is OUT NOW! 🪙🎶 https://t.co/KAcD9LBWNh pic.twitter.com/8FBpmKRFql
— Cole Swindell (@coleswindell) November 7, 2022
Messina also appears in the video for “She Had Me At Heads Carolina,” starring as a bartender. Swindell wrote the song with Thomas Rhett, Ashley Gorley and Jesse Frasure, adding the “Heads Carolina, Tails California” writers, Tim Nichols and Mark D. Sanders, in the credits as well. The song is on Swindell’s latest record, Stereotype, released in April.
“I finally got her contact info,” Swindell said at a media event earlier this year. “I had been wanting to reach out to her, and tell her what a fan I was. I think I might have met her at a festival years ago, briefly, when I was selling t-shirts. We don’t really know each other … I just got her number and just sent her a text letting her know that it was me and that I’ve been wanting to reach out and that I finally got her contact.
“[I] just let her know what a fan I was and that the original song, without that, obviously, I would have never had this idea,” he continued. “I just wanted her to know I wanted her to be as much of a part of it as she wanted to be. Or if not at all, that’s fine too.”
Swindell just wrapped up two sold-out, headlining shows at the Ryman Auditorium. He will spend part of next year on the road with Rhett, as the opening act on Rhett’s Home Team Tour 23. Find all of his music and upcoming shows at ColeSwindell.com.
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