But then, it dawned on him.
“I remembered I had one under the bed,” Parker, 28, laughs during an interview with PEOPLE. “I pulled it out and it had dog hair and dust and everything all over it, so I had to go get it cleaned, but it looked good for the video though.”
Landon Parker and wife McKenzie.SheHeWe Photography
“We actually met in 2016 at a bar called Acme Feed and Seed in downtown Nashville,” remembers Parker. “We did long distance for probably two or three years when she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina,” he says, then quips, “Somehow, I convinced her to love me enough to move here to Nashville.”
And in May of 2020, they got engaged.
“I told her that I wanted to write a father-daughter dance song for her,” remembers Parker, whose wedding pics taken back in March of 2021 are now premiering exclusively on PEOPLE. “I told her I didn’t know how good it was going to be, but I’m going to come up with something.”
McKenzie and her father.SheHeWe Photography
Soon after, Parker went into a Zoom writing session with fellow songwriters Matt Nolen and Skip Black. “The whole song is me talking to her dad, saying thank you for bringing an angel into the world,” explains the singer/songwriter. “We wrote that song fairly fast because it was right there, right in front of us.”
Music too has long been in Parker’s heart.
He was raised on the sounds of Brooks & Dunn andBlake Shelton, and soon found himself in a band called Chasing Crazy doing covers ofLuke BryanandChris Younghits until making his way to Music City in 2013. Parker is now signed toTim McGraw’s publishing company Free Dive.
Not surprisingly, the team at Mint Springs Farms welcomed the couple back with open arms, resulting in a music video that is sure to touch the hearts of all those who watch it, especially his new father-in-law.
source: people.com
