Songwriter Greg Barnhill went into a co-writing session with writer Vince Melamed back in the early '90s with an idea for a song based on the term "walkaway joe." A term Melamed had never heard of.

Clarkson brought the house down during a March 2021 episode of her Emmy-winning talk show with a haunting rendition of Yearwood's "Walkaway Joe." Backed by her band Y'all in a set draped in dreamy ...

George Strait song's origin was a seemingly failed voicemail message between the songwriters.