From the recording Backroads and Backstories
Magnolia is a reflective, story-driven country song rooted in memory and place. It looks back on summers spent visiting grandparents in a small southern town—where time slowed down, front porches mattered, and love was shown through quiet routines rather than big words.
The song captures the sensory details of those visits: dusty roads, familiar rooms, shared meals, and the unspoken comfort of being known. Magnolia isn’t about nostalgia for its own sake—it’s about how those early moments shape who we become, and how the simplest places often leave the deepest mark.
Warm, understated, and emotionally grounded, Magnolia honors family, heritage, and the kind of love that doesn’t ask for attention—but never fades.
Lyrics
Grandpa ran a diner off 82
Biscuits and gravy coffee and juice
Grandma rolled the caramel her hands were gold
They both loved all his workers and it showed
Me and my cousin saw a movie one night
Crawled through Grandpa's window by the porch light
Cops showed up and Grandpa made it right
With a paddle and a lesson for life
I lost my heart in Magnolia
Where the sweet tea's cold and the summer's slow
Where love was loud and life was kind
And every wrong turned out just fine
From Grandma's laugh to the diner's glow
Those roots run deep in my soul
Of all my childhood years
It's one of the best places we would go
Magnolia
Met a girl one day at the motel pool
We kissed til dark I thought she thought I was cool
Next day she was gone left no number for me
'Cause years rolled by I found my wife
Bought us some dirt and we built a life
But when the world gets loud and days get long
Magnolia still sings that sweet song
I lost my heart in Magnolia
Where the sweet tea's cold and the summer's slow
Where love was loud and life was kind
And every wrong turned out just fine
From Grandma's laugh to the diner's glow
Those roots run deep in my soul
Of all my childhood years
It's one of the best places we would go
Magnolia
Ice cold milk and sultry summers
Porch swing nights the world felt younger
Just a kid passin' through in July
But it stole a piece of me that night
I lost my heart in Magnolia
Where the sweet tea's cold and the summer's slow
Where love was loud and life was kind
And every wrong turned out just fine
From Grandma's laugh to the diner's glow
Those roots run deep in my soul
Of all my childhood years
It's one of the best places we would go
Magnolia
Small town Magnolia