David Cone, a co-host of The Daily Wire’s sports podcast “Crain & Co.,” dropped his first country single this week with his song about “blue jeans” and “rock and roll” in “Just What America Needs.”
On Friday, the Daily Wire host announced his new country song, which he worked on with Nashville legend Kent Wells, Dolly Parton’s long-time producer. “Just What American Needs” is the first of six singles Cone will be releasing in the next few months. Cone said that Wells, the legendary music producer who is coming off a hugely successful album release in Dolly Parton’s “Rockstar,” was impressed by what he heard in the “Crain & Co.” hosts new songs.
Cone revealed the song in a post on X, which showcased him rocking out to lyrics about finding a good woman that he loves who is “Just What America Needs.” Cone said the song “intersects with the missional statement of what I want to do in my life now, and with the company I work for with The Daily Wire.”
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— David Cone (@davidadamcone) May 3, 2024
“I thought now that I have a platform with this sports show, ‘Crain & Co.’ and the aftermath of our movie ‘Lady Ballers,’ now would be the best time to release new music, especially music that is patriotic,” he added. “‘Just What America Needs’ seemed like the no-brainer song for me to start with.”
Cone said his other five singles will be released over the next few months — one of which is another patriotic song titled “American Made,” which Cone hopes to release around the Fourth of July.
Additionally, Cone will release “Flavors of Kentucky,” “Southward Bound,” “Die in Alabama,” and “Thompson’s Station Train.” The Daily Wire host taught himself how to play the guitar as a senior at the University of Michigan before he started writing music and playing at venues in Atlanta and Nashville.
One powerful line in “Just What America Needs” features Cone singing about how a woman “proudly raised in the USA” likes “social living, not socialism” and suggests that with “few more like her, this country would be okay.”
The chorus praises the woman because she, “likes blue jeans and rock and roll, raised up right, loving country roads. ‘Free Bird’ on the radio, she’s just what America needs.”
In the song, the “Crain & Co.” host notes that he used to sit and complain “about how there was no use of dating any of these girls today,” until he heard this one woman “singing God bless the USA.”
“‘Just What America Needs’ is as close to me being the actual protagonist as possible. And the woman who he’s loving in the song is as close to being my wife as possible,” Cone said.
Cone revealed that the final hurdle to clear in “Just What America Needs” came at “the last turnaround verse.”
“I came up with the line, ‘But she ain’t perfect, she loves pizza cold,’ and when I wrote that line I thought it’s now been elevated, and now the song can be complete,” Cone said. “Before that I think it opened itself up to criticism that it was just a cliche patriotic song, but that last part there [shows] I’m not holding people who are just what America needs to a perfect standard because this girl isn’t either. She eats her pizza cold. To me, it was a perfect way to wrap up a song.”
“Just What America Needs” is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.