in the third episode of hbo's music documentary series , brown was a featured interviewee and explained why lost trailer's version of "chicken fried" was pulled from the radio. brown stated that after six years of touring that he was broke and sleeping in his tour van. in 2005 the lost trailers contacted brown and expressed interest in recording "chicken fried". brown stated he agreed under the condition that the song would only be an album cut and not a single as he still had hopes of releasing the song as a radio single himself.