"The Great Salt Lake" is the second single taken from Band of Horses' debut album Everything All the Time, which was released on March 21, 2006.
He explained, "A lot of the imagery is about South Carolina, combined with some incidents we heard about from some hilarious fuck-ups we knew from Salt Lake City.
Interest in that EP led to fellow South Carolina native Sam Beam of Iron and Wine offering Band of Horses the support slot on his tour.
[2] The music video for the song shows band members Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett and Rob Hampton playing in a softball match.
Neither Barrett or Hampton were members of Band of Horses when the song was recorded, but joined soon after the release of Everything All the Time.