Earning two Grammy Award nominations this year for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song, "Blown Away" was written by Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear. They are the same duo who penned Carrie's 2008 Grammy-winning smash "Before He Cheats." And as the two songwriters told Radio.com, they didn't necessarily set out to write something this dark�much less a song that involved storm cellars, "tear-soaked whiskey memor[ies]," and "sweet revenge."

In fact, things started rather simply�as many songwriter sessions often do. "We began to build drums and the string parts that drive the intro and verse," Chris tells Radio.com. After that, the lyrics just started "leaking out."