In Color by Rhonda_Kaye

Rhonda_Kaye - In Color

Rhonda_Kaye

Jul 30, 2025 10:44am

I love this song, added some harmony and tyfl! From Wikipedia, "In Color" is a song co-written and recorded by American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">country music</a> artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamey_Johnson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Jamey Johnson</a>. It was released in March 2008 as the first single from his 2008 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Lonesome_Song" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">That Lonesome Song</a>. Johnson co-wrote the song with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Otto" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">James Otto</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Thomas_Miller" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">Lee Thomas Miller</a>. In January 2009, "In Color" became Johnson's first Top 10 country hit with a peak at number 9.The song won awards for Song of the Year in both the 2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_Awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">ACM Awards</a> and the 2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMA_Awards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">CMA Awards</a>. The song is a largely acoustic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ballad</a> centralizing on an elderly man who is showing black-and-white photographs to his grandson, each photograph showing a various part of the man's life. Describing the instances in each photos, such as fighting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">World War II</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Great Depression</a> and the day he and his wife first got married, he recalls his own life story to his grandson, telling him that "[he] should have seen it in color" (i.e., that the grandson would have had to have been there himself to understand what each experience was truly like).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Color_(song)#cite_note-engine145-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[1]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_Adkins" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trace Adkins</a> was originally slated to record the song, until Johnson asked Adkins' permission to record the song himself.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Color_(song)#cite_note-weekly-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[2]</a> Adkins did record the song as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">iTunes</a> exclusive bonus track on his 2008 album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(Trace_Adkins_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">X</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Color_(song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[3]</a> <img src="https://singsnap.imgix.net/message-board/threads/DVZY/67150071cf_7J1T_media.png">