Rhonda_Kaye - In Color


Rhonda_Kaye
Jul 30, 2025 10:44am
<p>I love this song, added some harmony and tyfl!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">From Wikipedia,</span></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>In Color</strong>" 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);"><em>That Lonesome Song</em></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.</p><p>The song won awards for <em>Song of the Year</em> 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>.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">The song is a largely acoustic </span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 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 </span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, the </span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 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).</span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> </span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> was originally slated to record the song, until Johnson asked Adkins' permission to record the song himself.</span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> Adkins did record the song as an </span><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><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> exclusive bonus track on his 2008 album, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(Trace_Adkins_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);"><em>X</em></a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">.</span><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></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(6, 69, 173);"><span class="ql-cursor"></span></span><img src="https://singsnap.imgix.net/message-board/threads/DVZY/67150071cf_7J1T_media.png"></p>