According to co-writer Luke Laird he and Natalie Hemby were meeting with a music executive when the exec asked about a tune they wrote called "Fine Tune" but it was mistakenly referred to as "Pontoon". This comment got the creative juices flowing and the duo wrote "Pontoon" with Barry Dean. The talented Natalie Hemby sings "Pontoon at the 2016 Key West Songwriter's Festival.

Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook) included "Pontoon" as the lead single from the group's 2012 platinum top ten album "Tornado". The song won a Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance while it topped the Country chart and came in at number twenty-two on the Billboard Top One Hundred.