“Best Day Of My Life” by American Authors

American Authors put out "Best Day of My Life" in March 2013 through Mercury and Island, leading off their self-titled EP before it went on to become the second single from their first full-length, Oh, What a Life, in 2014. Band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez and James Adam Shelley wrote it with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman, and they were in the middle of it when the Sandy Hook school shooting happened in 2012. Rublin has said they set out to make something simple and sticky that would lift people up, because that kind of positivity felt missing from rock.

So it stomps and grins: Barnett sings lead, Shelley brings banjo and mandolin, Sanchez handles drums and percussion, Rublin plays bass, and the whole crew piles onto the backing vocals. Accetta and Goodman mixed it too.

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