I-95 Drive Home Featured Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s featured artists had two band members going through marital issues and each wrote a song reflecting those emotions.  Tonight’s featured song is one of them originally titled “Don’t Let Me Down” can you guess the band or the song?

Well the song writer was Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon. It was after his band co-leader Kevin Cronin's had written "Keep on Loving You" (#1 in 1981) – the story goes, both were going through marital difficulties at the time. Says Richrath: "When I wrote that, I woke up one night, half asleep, and sat down in front of the TV. There was a soap opera on it. I was just sitting there, strumming a guitar, thinking, 'God, these guys' relationships are worse than mine.' I just sat there and sang vocals about the effects of gossip and relationships breaking up, which was what was on the tube and all that was similar to what was going on in my life." Originally called "Don't Let Me Down," with lyrics geared more toward men than the final result of his song ‘Take It On The Run’.

Live from 1982.