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MP3 Mike Corrado - Victory Lane
1 MP3 Songs in this album (2:54) !
Related styles: Rock: Southern Rock, Country: Country Rock, Solo Male Artist
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Victory Lane first started out as a song to get troops pumped up before going on a patrol or convoy. The idea first popped into my head mid-2007, and then I just set it aside. Having already written several military themed songs, I wanted to change it up a bit. Instead of writing about a service member getting ready for a mission or for battle, I instead changed it to a racecar drivers desire to win. There are a lot of parallels that can be drawn between a service member getting ready for a patrol and a driver preparing for a race and desire to be victorious.
I spent a lot of time growing up and going to school in the south and had always known about NASCAR but it was not until my deployment to Iraq in 2005/2006 where I really got into it. When I could, I would watch the races on American Forces Network which provided a temporary escape. That’s probably where the meshing of military and NASCAR occurred.
Down the road in 2009, I went to Nashville during CMAFest. I got to link up with a longtime friend and great guitar player Josh Burns. While there, we played a show at the Tin Roof in Nashville and also got to meet some major artists. The following day, I was asked to appear in a John Rich video and documentary for his song “The Good Lord and the Man.” John and I shared a dressing room at the Country Music Television (CMT) studio for the taping and got to talking. The dressing room was adorned with some water, some candy and a bottle of Crown Royal. He offered some Crown, which also happens to be a favorite of mine, and as the shoot wrapped, told me to take the rest of the bottle. This was my first ever trip to Nashville and I already got to play a show, be in a video filmed at CMT have a cocktail and shoot the bull with John Rich, so naturally when I got back to Josh’s house, we picked up some guitars and the Crown and had a marathon songwriting session until the wee hours of the morning.
I was telling Josh about some ideas I had and mentioned Victory Lane. I pretty much had the lyrics down and the melody but was in need of a much better guitar player than I to pull off the lick. I sang the part I was hearing a few times and Josh brought the groove to life. The next day, we went up into Josh’s studio and cut a rough guitar and vocal of what was to become the song.
A year and a half later while on a trip to Wilmington, NC, I had the opportunity to record it with another longtime friend, guitar player and producer Tommy Brothers. We laid down the track and with the help of Kent Hobson on bass, Adrian Duke on Hammond, Justin Cody Fox on slide guitar the song came to life.
While looking for graphic designers for the artwork, I ran across Scott Bates, a super talented graphic artist who I later found out is a disabled Marine Corps Veteran who was medically retired in 1985. Scott is catastrophically disabled by multiple sclerosis. He uses a hands-free mouse that he controls with his head movements to do his design work. Our common bond as Marines along with a love of NASCAR made it even more fortuitous. Although the song and artwork has a NASCAR theme, there is still a tip of the hat to our Marine Corps backgrounds with the pit crew raising the checkered flag reminiscent of the historic photograph of the five US Marines and one US Navy Corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi in 1945 during the Battle of Iwa Jima in World War II.
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