Bo Bice Premiered "You Take Yourself With You"

You can take the boy out of the small town, but you can't take the small town out of the boy! That's the message in the poignant new video for "You Take Yourself With You," the new single from country-rocker Bo Bice, who tries to always keep his own small town values in check. The country-gospel closer song is off his upcoming third album "3," and the new video, directed by Marcel Chagnon, was filmed in a rural area of Nashville, captures poignant imagery of a younger Bice with his family.
The mid-tempo ballad "Take Yourself with You" is a song Bice holds close to his heart, as it reminds the singer of his teenage years when he first left home. "The chorus of the song is loosely based around something my Dad told me," Bice said. "I hate this town," a son tells his parents, and he can't wait to hit the dusty road and head out. His father just shakes his head, hoping it's actually the town he wants to leave and not himself. "Son," he says, "you take yourself with you wherever you go." The son takes a while to fully understand what his dad's telling him, as sons often do, but eventually he comes around. "My Dad would say, 'Bo, in life, always treat people like you want to be treated, but don't ever expect it back. Work hard every day and know that you have got to look yourself in the mirror. It doesn't matter how far you go or how high you fly, you take yourself with you every day, and you've got to live with yourself.'"
Husky-voiced Bice was raised in the south by his song-singing, instrument-playing, music-worshiping parents, so he has music in his blood. The 34-year-old musician who was the runner-up to Carrie Underwood in the fourth season of American Idol. Bice's now coming back and takes one last look around an old broken-down house as he prepares to leave for good, with full of past memories. It brings the whole song alive.
Bice's American Idol journey is already five years in the past, but Bice himself is only looking forward and thinking in threes. He and his wife just had their third boy. He is also releasing his third album "3," a record filled with soulful, gospel-tinged country rock that represents the maturation of a songwriter and performer. "I feel like '3' is my strongest record to date," Bice said recently. "It's a plethora of sounds that show who I really am. There's something for everyone; country, soul, rock'n' roll...it's like your favorite pair of jeans, it just feels right."