Heartland is a country music band from Huntsville, Alabama. Relatively unknown for a decade, Heartland signed with an independent record label called Lofton Creek Records in 2006. I Loved her First, which was written by Walt Aldridge and Elliot Park, was the song that skyrocketed them to national fame in 2006 and rapidly entered the Hot Country Songs and became a Number 1 single for them. Highly popular across America, they tour from coast to coast and, as of September 2006, plan to release their first album on October 1, 2006.