You had "God bless the broken road that led me straight to you." I was like, "Man, right there. JH: A little bit of the chorus and a little bit of the first verse as well. I was like, “That’s pretty great.” He starts singing and he had a good chunk.
JH: He’d sat down at the piano and played this now famous (melody). … As soon as (Jeff) came back, I took what little I had and we went to work. He had married a good friend of ours, Matraca. I remember thinking that I was waiting on Jeff to get back from a honeymoon. He knew he was in love, and that everything that had happened was really blessed, in a different way of looking at it. MH: He was talking about things that had been tough, but how he was really in love.
And then a couple months later, Marcus came back and played me something. I told it to Marcus one night over drinks, just how divorce and all these things bring you somewhere and then God uses that to take you where you’re supposed to go. I had the storyline in my spirit and I was trying to figure it out. In a conversation with Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International, the writers remembered how "Bless the Broken Road" came to be.īB: Well, a lot of heartbroken roads, I guess, in my life. The country trio took the song - written by Bobby E Boyd, Jeff Hanna and Marcus Hummon - to the top of the country charts shortly thereafter. Like the protagonist in its lyrics, "Bless the Broken Road" had a complicated journey before it made its way to Rascal Flatts in 2004. "God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you.” Watch Video: Story Behind the Song: 'Bless the Broken Road'
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