This week the following new singles have been added to our playlist.
Thomas Rhett’s new album, About A Woman, is finally set to arrive on August 23. On Friday, the multiple Grammy-nominee shared the record’s third single, “Overdrive,” along with a tender, summery music video for the song. “I feel like this whole record was sort of made with a very free mindset of whatever feels good goes,” Rhett told Audacy’s Scotty Kay during Chicago’s Windy City Smokeout. “There was no box for me, which is how it should be. It’s supposed to be fun. I wrote “Overdrive” at a writing camp in Chattanooga with a couple buddies of mine [and] if you know me, you know I’m a sucker for nostalgia. This song is just the adrenaline and the feeling of going and picking a girl up on the first date… no matter what plans you had with your friends, they just get completely destroyed if a girl calls you.”
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MCA Nashville recording artist Josh Turner released a new track, “Somewhere With Her,” from his forthcoming album This Country Music Thing which will be out August 16. Produced by Kenny Greenberg, the song was written by Rhett Akins, Will Bundy and Josh Miller. The track is about getting swept away in romantic longing, with a classic Turner ‘90s-country feel capturing a head-over-heels kind of love.
Turner sings about a man drifting off to a romantic getaway in his mind, even when engaged in conversation. He just can’t help himself – and neither could Turner. “This was the one that really just stuck with us,” he says. “The song just kept coming back over and over again” and it will be featured on Turner’s 10th studio album. “Somewhere With Her” follows the previously released songs “Heatin’ Things Up” and “Down In Georgia.”
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The Bellamy Brothers freely admit: “We’re too old to work, but too broke to quit.” At this point, “We’re holding it together with duct tape, reefer and prayer.”
But that doesn’t keep the indefatigable country-pop duo from continuing to make great music together. Those tongue-in-cheeky self-effacing lyrics come from “Crawl in a Hole,” the new single from their upcoming album Double Dog Dare. And while the words might indicate Howard and David Bellamy are slowing down a tad after more than 40 years of success, don’t be fooled: These self-described “Old Hippies” are still keeping busy.