Contributors:
Brian Wooten, lap steel guitar
Heath Nicholls, bass and harmony vocals
Jay Miller, drums
Jules Bryce, keys
Mac Bartine, lead vocals and rhythm guitar
Rich Adlin, lead guitar and harmony vocals
Seva, recording, mixing and mastering

Tracking: I Knew was a powerhouse song going into the studio, and it came out that way. It wasn't the most complicated song to track, but the parts we spent extra time and love to get right were extra vocal tracking and many takes on Rich's solos, plus extra drum, bass and lap steel tracking. This was one of the songs that we spent the most time on mixing after recording was done.

Mac’s Songwriting Notes: I wrote I Knew in late 2006 as a love song rocker that was purposely a throwback to arena rock days. I actually made the lyrics a little cheesy to fit the genre and to make my first wife April laugh. To my surprise at the time, she liked it quite a bit and I didn’t get a single chuckle that I can remember. April was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer a few months after I wrote I Knew, and she died from it in 2009. Some of the lyrics wound up having a tiny bit more substance to them afterwards. Not as any kind of ode to her; I doubt I’ll ever record the songs that I’ve written about her passing. It just felt like the song needed to grow up a little bit. That said, there are still several really cheesy moments throughout the lyrics, and even some parts that I re-wrote I didn’t have the heart to change entirely. For example, I know I wrote this song in late 2006 because I wrote it shortly after we saw Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby at the movies. The character Chip cracked me up, and the line “the field mouse is fast, but the owl sees at night” stuck in my head. It made its way nearly verbatim into the original lyrics of the 2nd verse, and I changed it to “We delve through darkest past / where the fox, she sees, at night.” A ‘she fox’ lyric is actually even cheesier than the original, but I couldn’t leave it so obvious a nod to that wonderfully cheesy 2006 movie. Now you know the truth of this serious-sounding rocker, and as that great prognosticator of knowledge G.I. Joe used to say, “knowing is half the battle!”