![]() ![]() And it's hard enough to get people to come out to hear music. ![]() Because what it is is an invitation - everywhere I go, it's an invitation to the town that I'm in to people, and they go, 'Oh, let's go hear that guy that sings that song.' And I've got 90 minutes to show 'em all this other stuff we do. McCain is extremely thankful for the success of "I'll Be," without which he would be unable to play music to different audiences every night: "In light of being a 41-year-old singer/songwriter traveling musician, that song is a gift that you can't even believe. It gave me all the things that I thought I wanted and taught me a lot about myself." Here it is." McCain believes his 'Hail Mary' worked: "I think it opened up a whole new lesson for me to learn in my life. I just put it all out there, here it is, here's my scary moment, here's my fear. You have to be honest and emotional and admit the things that maybe you don't want to. If I don't do something that's worthy or that strikes a chord, or if I don't do something great here, it's over." McCain said he poured all of his anxieties into "I'll Be": "And the only thing I know how to do with songwriting is to be honest and emotional. And it was a time that this was make or break. I was drinking and following a course of action that would be described as self-destructive. I was not dealing with that information in a healthy way. So I was in a place where everything that I had dreamed about in my whole life was kind of falling apart. But back then those were disappointing numbers. Which is really funny to say, because I think our first album sold like 250-300,000 copies, where today they would have a parade. Edwin told us he was going through a very difficult period in his life around the time he wrote this track: "I look back on that time and the moment when I wrote the song, and we were in danger of being dropped from the record label, and the label was not happy with my sales numbers. ![]()
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