Rolling Stone Country writer Joseph Hudak described the song as featuring "Opening with some clean slide guitar, the mid-tempo ballad calls to mind Bruce Springsteen's wall-of-sound style and progression, with Combs proclaiming his own blue-collar bona fides in the lyrics." Billy Dukes of Taste of Country wrote that "While not his tightest lyric, this song...hits the heart as quick as any of his previous seven No. 1 hits...Most satisfying might be the Gary Morsesteel guitar that saturates the mix." Combs wrote the song with Ray Fulcher and Tyler Reeve, and chose to include Church as a duet partner because he thought it fit Church's artistic style along with his own.