Heather’s Favorite Secret Star Jam Moment [VIDEO]

With performers like Rodney Atkins, Tyler Farr and Gloriana, our latest WGNA Secret Star Jam was epic! I loved all the performances, but I was very excited to hear Gloriana do one song in particular last night that was my favorite off their last album 'A Thousand Miles Left Behind.'

I had a chance to talk to Tom and Mike Gossin after the show and I mentioned that "Carolina Rose" was my favorite song of the night. The Gossin brothers grew up in Utica, NY but Tom went to school in Eastern North Carolina (Wilmington, NC) where I spent a couple of years working not too long ago. In the song they mention Blue Creek Road and when I first heard it I laughed because I know exactly where that road is. As I talked to the brothers, Mike told me that song "helped" Tom get married. His wife lived in Eastern NC and the lyrics were about their relationship. Tom told me that the band wanted to release the song as a single, but it just never happened for a couple of different reasons. Take a moment and listen to the song and the lyrics. I love the story it tells and the sentiment behind the words.

Ever since we took that midnight drive
Down to see the water in the full moon sky
And I told you I loved you on the blue creek road
Well I was full on fallin' for my Carolina Rose

Spent the next four years just singing my songs
With Rosie in the front row singing along
Till I got that call, had to hit that road
Man, how am I gonna leave my Carolina Rose

Yeah the big time is everything I ever wanted
But the spotlight can’t hold a candle to you
Standing up here on this stage, they all say “man, you got it made”
They don’t know, it don’t mean a thing without my Carolina Rose

Met a California girl on a west coast run
She sparkled like a diamond in the setting sun
They called me crazy when I let her go
I just couldn’t stop thinking about my Carolina Rose

Well the big time is everything is everything I ever wanted
But the spotlight can’t hold a candle to you
Standing up here on this stage
They all say, “man, you got it made”
They don’t know, it don’t mean a thing without my Carolina Rose

I’ve been halfway around the world just to come back to you
I hope I ain’t too late
And I hope that you’re still thinking about me too

'Cause now I’m back here standing on your front porch
It’s been five years baby, but it feels like more
Well let me drive you down that blue creek road
I got something to say to my Carolina Rose

Well the big time was everything I ever wanted
But the spotlight can’t hold a candle to you
Standing up there on that stage, it might look like I got it made
But my heart knows, it don’t mean a thing without my Carolina Rose

No it don’t mean a thing without my Carolina Rose
It don’t mean a thing without my Carolina Rose