your name in my truck

The Dandelion track that sounds most like a 1992 George Strait record, by design. 'your name in my truck' is a two-and-a-half minute traditional-country narrative — verse, chorus, verse, chorus, half-bridge, last chorus — about finding the name a previous owner of an old truck carved into the dashboard.

Co-written by Ashley Gorley (Nashville's most prolific hit-maker) and Aaron Raitiere (Nashville's most prolific deep-cut writer), it has Raitiere's specificity and Gorley's hookiness. The chorus line gets quoted in screenshots every other week on country-music Twitter. Bundy's production is dead-on classic: pedal steel, fiddle (Stuart Duncan again), shuffle drums, no electric guitar at all. The vocal is one take.

It's the shortest song on the record (2:47) and probably the most beloved by the segment of Ella's audience that came in through traditional country. At live shows it's the moment the older folks in the crowd lean in and the younger ones start filming. The kind of song that won't chart but will be in someone's wedding rehearsal dinner for the next twenty years.