![]() ![]() Phil viewers voted "I'll Be" as the best wedding song ever written. Songfacts: (Laughing) I'm sure some have. I was like, Oh my God, people are going to lose their minds. And especially when they close the highway for a month. I live in Los Angeles and we have traffic jams of epic proportions almost every day. But I do apologize.ĭan MacIntosh (Songacts): That's all right. And I tell you, it was just one of those things, I got jammed up. I literally was trapped behind the wheel of a bus. I was doing double duty as bus driver and we got into this traffic snafu that was of epic proportions. This interview was rescheduled once, which as we found out, can happen when the subject is also driving the bus. After his 2001 album Far From Over, he left the label on shockingly amicable terms, going the indie route ever since.Īs Edwin tells the story of "I'll Be," you'll hear how the song defined him as an artist and brought him to a positive place from a period of alcoholism and despair. This got him a deal with Atlantic Records that petered out after his big hit and when the Hootie backlash began. So who is the guy behind the song? McCain is an introspective singer/songwriter from South Carolina, which in the mid-'90s meant Hootie & the Blowfish. It's a song so intimate that we hear our own stories in it, and often use it to accompany weddings and other moments that define our lives. The song tells the story of a turning point in his life - his "Hail Mary" moment. On the road for hundreds of dates every year, "I'll Be" is the honey that attracts new fans to his rootsy music not suitable for pop radio. Some songwriters have rocky relationships with their well known hit, but McCain loves everything about it. More folks can sing its chorus than tell you the first thing about Edwin McCain. "I'll Be" hit the charts in 1998 and has been on playlists ever since. It soon reached number 2 on that chart.The song is more popular than the artist. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for the week of February 17, 2001. ![]() "I Could Not Ask for More" debuted at number 52 on the U.S. The music video for Evans' rendition was directed by Peter Zavadil, and features shots of her on location in White Sands National Monument in New Mexico singing the song in different outfits and frequently sitting in different chairs throughout the video. Evans' version was a Top 5 hit on the country music charts. Sara Evans cover "I Could Not Ask for More"Īmerican country music singer Sara Evans' cover version of the song was released in February 2001 as the second single from her 2000 album Born to Fly. He reaches the tree just as a branch a woman is sitting on breaks and manages to catch her as she falls. While McCain is traveling, a number of people are sitting in a park tree. The music video features McCain walking and taking a taxi through a busy city decorated like a 19th century village with people in 19th century costumes. Her rendition was released as the album's second single and peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. In 2001, American country music artist Sara Evans popularly covered the song on her third studio album Born to Fly (2000). It was also on his third studio album Messenger (1999) and became a Billboard-charted top 40 single in the summer of 1999. " I Could Not Ask for More" is a song composed by American songwriter Diane Warren and originally recorded and released in February 1999, by American singer-songwriter Edwin McCain for the original soundtrack of the 1999 romantic drama film Message in a Bottle, starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn and Paul Newman.
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