Emerson Drive is a band founded in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada in 1995. Early on, the band found minor success in Canada, releasing two albums under the name of 12 Gauge. By 1999, they changed the name to Emerson Drive, and had moved to Nashville, Tennessee to find a major label record deal.
Emerson Drive recorded two albums on the DreamWorks Records label, and charted several hits on both the U.S. and Canadian country music charts. After DreamWorks' collapse in 2005, Emerson Drive signed to Midas Records Nashville, where they resumed their streak of hit singles.