5 Things to Expect from Thomas Rhett's Album 'About A Woman'

We chatted with country singer, Thomas Rhett about his new album, About A Woman, out Friday, August 23rd. Here are five things to expect from the upcoming project.

Thomas Rhett purposely and intentionally decided to make the About A Woman project a smaller batch of songs than many artists are doing lately.

“Picking 14 songs was really complicated for me. […] It’s become really popular to put 20, 30, 40 songs, double album, triple albums, and I think for me, there’s so much music that comes out everyday, and especially every Friday that when I see records that have 20 or more songs on them, I’m like I don’t know if I can sit and listen to that in one sitting, so I wanted it to be a very digestible record. […] The sequencing part is always so long because as a songwriter, I write so many songs.”

The record was titled About A Woman because of the chosen songs and thanks to Rhett’s wife, Lauren’s challenge to write more upbeat love songs.

“I think once I started listening through all the songs, they had a very common theme. They really all were about a moment I had in my relationship with my own right. [Lauren told me] I love when you write songs about me, but I wish they weren’t all slow all the time.”

Eric Church has always been a big inspiration to Rhett, and it is the most evident it’s ever been on his new song, “Church.”

“Hints of Eric Church are all over the record. He was the soundtrack of my teenage years. He was my version of what Zach Bryan is today. […] When I heard this song, it was genuinely my story reincarnated with my wife.”

There is one outside cut on the record called “Country for California” which happens to be a heartbreak song penned by John Morgan.

“I think I’m always looking for songs that I wouldn’t innately write in a session. I think I’ve recorded maybe two heartbreak songs in my whole career. “Marry Me” being one of them, which happened to be a big hit for us. […] When I’m listening to heartbreak songs, I’m listening for something that has melody and also makes me feel happy in a way like “Crash and Burn” did that for me, where it felt so sad, but also made me want to dance.”

While Rhett is known for his incredible ballads, the superstar only included one ballad on the record, a song called “I Could Spend Forever Loving You,” which is both timeless and fitting for the theme of the record.

“It killed me to only put one ballad on the record, but now that I’ve lived with it for a while, I’m so glad that there’s one, and it’s the last one. And I wrote that song with my buddy Ernest. […] What I loved about it, was that it was so simple, and reminded me of just the facts of ‘I don’t know how to say this to you, but I want to spend my entire life with you.’”