Thomas Rhett’s new album, About A Woman is out now, August 23rd on all streaming platforms. Take a listen and read our full review below.

For Thomas Rhett, it would be easy to rest on his laurels. With 17 #1 hits and six studio albums, he could easily wash, rinse, and repeat his music, and still find success. However, on his seventh full length album, About a Woman, out now, he does the opposite.

Rather than rely on a proven formula for success, Rhett branches out sonically on his new LP, offering something for old and new fans alike. Released via The Valory Music Co, his new album offers fourteen new tracks, thirteen of which he co-wrote.

“From top to bottom, I wanted to exude joy and fun with this project—and really just make people move,” Rhett revealed in a statement. “I went into making this record with a fearless attitude, put my blinders on and my head down to try and make really fun music.”

Produced by Julian Bunetta and Dann Huff, the album centers around love, but does so in different ways. It’s largely uptempo, sampling retro 80’s synths, hip hop beats, country melodies, and a whole lot more. “I feel like if you were to ask me what this record is about, the answer would be it’s about one woman, my wife,” He continues. “And I think we got the opportunity to say ‘I love you’ in a lot of different ways.”

What’s most interesting on About a Woman is its evolution. While the first half is ripe with the mid-tempo pop country anthems that have made Rhett a superstar, the second half finds him truly experimenting with new sounds and genres. On the latter half of the LP, he slides effortlessly from the harmonies of the Beach Boys-meets-Laurel Canyon on “Country for California” to the soulful grit of “Somethin’ Bout a Woman” to the soulful, almost doowop vibe of “Can’t Love You Anymore.” Meanwhile, “Boots” may be the album’s most unique song, a swinging country and western romp that sounds straight out of a Texan dancehall.

“Don’t Wanna Dance” offers a truly special moment, a heartbreak anthem that still supports a huge, stadium-ready chorus. It puts a new spin on the Whitney Houston classic, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” flipping it from a buoyant and hopeful anthem to a pure heartwrencher.  “Once that chorus popped in, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh,’” Rhett shares of the song. “I envision myself on a grand piano in the middle of an arena, with people just screaming these words back to me.” 

One of the album’s standouts is “Church” which pays homage to both a relationship with someone special and a relationship with a specific musical artist, Eric Church. Lyrically, the song is incredibly clever, using a play on words, as Rhett mixes Church song titles with a tale of falling in love with both his wife and the Chief’s music, as she was the first to take him to “Church.” “She stole my heart, and I still got the shirt,” He sings of their first concert experience. “She took me to church.”

Like previous albums, Rhett’s new LP is also full of catchy bops, including the previously released “Gone Country,” which celebrates the allure of country life and the R&B tinted mid-tempo, “Overdrive.” Similarly, the album’s opener, “Fool,” is complete with whistling and toe-tapping pop beats, finding him enamored to an almost silly point. “Julian and I went back and forth on ‘How do you open a record that has this many kinds of sounds on it?’” Rhett explains. “I figured, ‘Why not put one of the most sonically progressive sounds first?’”

“What Could Go Right” finds him looking on the bright side of tuning from friends to lovers, embracing all the possible positives. “Girl, don’t think about what could go wrong,” He implores. “Just think about what could go right.”

Meanwhile, both “After All The Bars Are Closed” and “Back to Blue” capture the possibilities of what may happen after last call. On “After,” they spend time together until the sun comes up, while “Back to Blue” is a lush and layered ode to watching the sun come up.

The album’s first single is “an anthem for everybody who feels like they out-kicked their coverage,” revealed Rhett. “There was one day a couple years back when I was looking at my wife, and I was like, ‘Why in the world did you choose me?’ I get to be with someone who could easily be on the cover of a magazine, and I get to see her in all her forms—a partner, a mother, a friend, even a philanthropist. I just feel like I’ve got a first row seat at almost-perfection, if you will. And like the song says, ‘Seriously, what is somebody as amazing as you doing with somebody like me?’”

About a Woman ends with its only true ballad, “I Could Spend Forever Loving You.” Here, Rhett closes the album on a poignant and romantic high note. “I just hope people know I’m just never really done evolving,” he says. “I think there’s two paths you can take in this career. When something works, you can ride that until the day you die – but that’s not really how I’ve ever been.” 

About A Woman Track List:

1. Fool
2. Overdrive
3. Gone Country
4. Beautiful As You
5. Can’t Love You Anymore
6. After All The Bars Are Closed
7. Church
8. Back To Blue
9. Country For California
10. Somethin’ ‘Bout A Woman
11. What Could Go Right
12. Boots
13. Don’t Wanna Dance
14. I Could Spend Forever Loving You

Country Swag Picks:

1. Church
2. Country for California
3. Don’t Wanna Dance
4. What Could Go Right
5. I Could Spend Forever Loving You

Thomas Rhett shares new album, ‘About A Woman,’ out now on all streaming platforms.

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About A Woman  is available everywhere you buy or stream music. Take a listen below and check out more new recently released music on our ‘New Country Music’ playlist. Be sure to give the playlist a follow for your weekly new country music fix.

Lainey Wilson’s brand new album, Whirlwind is out now, August 23rd on all streaming platforms. Take a listen and read our full review below.

With one of the genre’s most unique voices and standout styles, Lainey Wilson has been a tornado through the boys club that is often the hierarchy of country music. Today, the acclaimed singer-songwriter releases her aptly-titled album, Whirlwind, taking listeners on a journey inside her life.

On the follow up to 2022’s Bell Bottom Country, which featured the monster hit “Heart Like a Truck,” Wilson stretches herself artistically, taking a fearless step into what’s made her one of the most exciting artists of our generation. On Whirlwind, the BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville artist co-wrote all fourteen tracks, enlisting superproducer Jay Joyce to bring her vision to life. While the album takes listeners on a journey through country music, the reigning CMA and ACM Entertainer of the Year stays true to what has made her a superstar.

“This album has been a long time coming, and I can’t wait for the world to have this body of work in their hands…” says Wilson of the project. “This new chapter of music is the most cathartic and personal piece of art I’ve ever made. I hope this record brings some peace to your whirlwind and wraps its arms around you like it did for me.”

Roaring in with the one-two punch of  “Keep Up With Jones” and “Country’s Cool Again,” one thing is immediately clear: Wilson isn’t about to stay stagnant. Instead, the swampy and swinging album opener recalls images of George Jones on a barstool, as Wilson aims to keep up with the joneses, cleverly turning phrases with a lyrical play on words. The track is immediately followed by the previously-released “Country’s Cool Again,” a fun celebration of all things country.

“Country isn’t just a genre for any of us that live & breathe it every day. It’s a way of life. It’s always been cool & I think I speak for everyone when I say, we’re just glad it’s gettin’ a lil more love these days.“ Wilson shared of the playful track.

“Everybody wanna be a cowboy // Drive a jon boat, whip a John Deere // Everybody want a backwoods front porch // With a tub full of iced-down beer // Must be something in the water flowing out of the holler // Blue collar must’ve caught a new wind // Doggone, dadgum it, didn’t see that coming // Country’s cool again”

Country life and the singer’s Louisiana upbringing are themes that weave their way throughout the album on songs like the stirring “Bar In Baton Rouge,” the celebratory “4x4xU,” and the spectacular “Call a Cowboy.” While “4x4xU” celebrates finding home wherever you are, “Call a Cowboy” is a slide guitar laden ballad that extolls the virtues of cowboys, and how they’re the ones to call when you’re in need. 

Wilson enlists fellow twang queen Miranda Lambert on “Good Horses,” the pair harmonizing and trading verses as if they’ve been singing together for decades. Their voices work perfectly together, tackling a topic usually reserved for the genre’s boys. On the poignant duet, they’re prone to roam but always return home.

“I don’t need a map // I don’t need a road // I don’t need a fence // I just need to roam If you wanna love me // You don’t need a rope // You just need to know Good horses come home // They always come home”

“Hang Tight Honey” is the ultimate earworm, its background vocalists and music setting the mood for a long distance love affair. “Hang tight honey, got a pocket full of money,” She sings buoyantly. “And I’m headed straight home to you “

Wilson experiments with different sounds throughout the album, most noticeably on the album’s lush title track, which finds the bell-bottomed chanteuse channeling her inner Stevie Nicks. Likewise, “Counting Chickens” is a plucky ode to jumping the gun and counting your chickens before they hatch in a relationship.

“Ring Finger” also finds Wilson experimenting with a new sound, her distinct voice tinted with an almost electronic sounding filter over doo-wop inspired background vocals and roaring guitars. Here, she roars through a kissoff to a cheating ex. “I got the ring, he got the finger,” She growls. “You got the cheatin’ country song, and baby I’m the singer”

While Wilson shines on any tempo, the ballads on Whirlwind are exceptional, with standouts like the triumphant “Middle of It,” “Broken Hearts Still Beat” and the vulnerable “Devil Don’t Go There.”  On “Broken Hearts,” she struggles in the aftermath of a breakup, building to a heart wrenching climax as she picks herself up and mends her cracked heart.  “Broken hearts still beat, and that’s what you showed me, I thought if you ever let me go, That’d be the end of the end of my rope,” She sings, voice laced with vulnerability and emotion. “It ain’t good as new, and boy thanks to you, It may never be the way it used to be, but broken hearts still beat.”

Likewise, “Devil Don’t Go There” finds Lainey Wilson at her absolute best, channeling her inner Dolly as her voice veers into a low and emotional whisper at times. “Even the devil don’t go there, the way you did me that night // I bet the hell you put me through // Could make his angels cry // How’d you ever leave me like that?” She asks. “Are you really that cold? // I bet even where he lives, he wouldn’t go that low // And boy I swear, even the devil don’t go there.”

The album ends on a slightly different note, a classic country story song that finds a child dealing with his father’s alcoholism. It’s an incredible performance from Wilson, proving that there are still unique ideas out there. 

“He drew a big orange sun // Shining down on, a little red house // With a little green tree, a little blue car parked out on the street // Brother with the football, sister with the puppy dog // Mother with a smile and her church dress on // Then he raised his hand, Said ‘teacher I can’t draw my daddy, do you have a whiskey colored crayon?’”

On Whirlwind, Lainey Wilson continues to establish why she’s country music’s newest superstar, well deserving of every accolade that has come her way.

Whirlwind Track List:

1. Keep Up With Jones (Lainey Wilson, Josh Kear, Wyatt McCubbin)
2. Country’s Cool Again (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson, Aslan Freeman)
3. Good Horses (feat. Miranda Lambert) (Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick) 
4. Broken Hearts Still Beat (Lainey Wilson, Dallas Wilson, Josh Thompson, Blake Pendergrass)
5. Whirlwind (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson) 
6. Call A Cowboy (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson) 
7. Hang Tight Honey (Lainey Wilson, Driver Williams, Jason Nix, Paul Sikes) 
8. Bar In Baton Rouge (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Kasey Tyndall, Jason Nix) 
9. Counting Chickens (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Josh Kear, Dallas Wilson, Jon Decious)
10. 4x4xU (Lainey Wilson, Jon Decious, Aaron Raitiere)
11. Ring Finger (Lainey Wilson, Aaron Raitiere, Marti Dodson, Jon Decious) 
12. Middle Of It (Lainey Wilson, Trannie Anderson, Dallas Wilson) 
13. Devil Don’t Go There (Lainey Wilson, Abram Dean, Lance Miller, Joe Fox) 
14. Whiskey Colored Crayon (Lainey Wilson, Josh Kear, Wyatt McCubbin)

Country Swag Picks:

1. Devil Don’t Go There
2. Broken Hearts Still Beat
3. Hang Tight Honey
4. Good Horses

Lainey Wilson shares brand new album, ‘Whirlwind,’ out on all streaming platforms.

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Whirlwind  is available everywhere you buy or stream music. Take a listen below and check out more new recently released music on our ‘New Country Music’ playlist. Be sure to give the playlist a follow for your weekly new country music fix.

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.

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. 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.’” 

Thomas Rhett’s new album, ‘About A Woman,’ comes out this Friday, August 23rd.

Check back this Friday, 8/23 for our full album review of Thomas Rhett’s record About A Woman.

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