Cole Swindell Gets the Thumbs Up from “Heads Carolina, Tails California” Song Writers

by jwills | July 27, 2022

Cole Swindell’s current single at country radio is “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.”

Cole’s song is a throwback to Jo Dee Messina’s “Heads Carolina, Tails California” – written by Tim Nichols and Mark D. Sanders, who both approve of “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.”

Cole says, “The original songwriters of the Jo Dee Messina song gave us their blessing. We wrote this with them and I think it’s just gonna take you back to the ‘90s…the first time you heard Jo Dee Messina’s ‘Heads Carolina, Tails California’- pretty cool to get to put our own spin on it.”

Cole will be bringing “She Had Me At Heads Carolina” to his fans live and in-person when his Back Down To The Bar tour kicks off this September in Texas.

Check out the lyric video to Cole Swindell’s “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.”

Photo Courtesy of Cole Swindell

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