COUNTRY CHART Weekend of August 12-13:
2 BILLY CURRINGTON Do I Make You Wanna
3 COLE SWINDELL Flatliner w/Dierks Bentley
4 DYLAN SCOTT My Girl
5 JUSTIN MOORE Somebody Else Will
6 LADY ANTEBELLUM You Look Good
7 MIDLAND Drinkin’ Problem
8 OLD DOMINION No Such Thing As a Broken Heart
9 DUSTIN LYNCH Small Town Boy
10 RASCAL FLATTS Yours If You Want It
11 JON PARDI Heartache On The Dance Floor
12 JASON ALDEAN They Don’t Know
13 BROTHERS OSBORNE It Ain’t My Fault
14 KIP MOORE More Girls Like You
15 CHRIS LANE For Her
16 CARLY PEARCE Every Little Thing
17 KENNY CHESNEY All The Pretty Girls
18 KANE BROWN What Ifs w/Lauren Alaina
19 GARTH BROOKS Ask Me How I Know
20 BRETT ELDREDGE Something I’m Good At
COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS!
A Conversation With the Unsinkable Will Hoge
New Album Anchors Arrives Aug. 11
Will Hoge
fans can thank the Lonely Man, the name of his sons Liam and George’s
first band, for pulling the Nashville rocker out of a creative funk.
Without them, Hoge’s latest album Anchors, his 11th full-length collection, probably wouldn’t exist.
Hoge was fresh off a successful tour to support 2015’s Small Town Dreams,
and he had a few songs left over that needed a home. But at the time,
Hoge was burnt out by the struggles that sometimes come with being in
the music industry, and he found himself at a loss of what do to next.
“There was fighting in the band that everybody deals with at times,”
Hoge tells CMT.com. “So I let everybody go, and I went out on my own and
kind of started wanting to write songs again. But I was at a point
where I didn’t even know what I wanted to do anymore.”
That’s a big statement coming from a music creator who has writing
songs about everyday life down to a fine art. It’s hard to imagine such a
prolific music maker ever having a bad day at the office. But that
happens occasionally.
For our CMT.com interview, Hoge sits at an East Nashville coffee shop
on a July afternoon and picks at a blueberry muffin as he shares the
story behind how Anchors came to be. He and Eric Paslay are the
Grammy-nominated songwriters behind “Even If It Breaks Your Heart,”
which originally appeared on Hoge’s 2009 album The Wreckage and later became a No. 1 hit for Eli Young Band.
In 2008, Hoge survived getting hit by a 15-passenger van while
driving his moped to get milk on his way home from the studio. On his
forearm, Hoge has a tattoo of a scooter in a circle with a slash through
it as a reminder to never ride one ever again.
After letting his band go, Hoge toured independently for a year with just a guitar and a keyboard.
“In the middle of not knowing what I wanted to do, I hated everything I was writing,” Hoge said of the time following Small Town Dreams. “I didn’t like the boots I was in, but my songs started with [the Lonely Man] and their rehearsals in my garage.”
George was 6 at the time, and he was the singer. Liam was 9, and he
played guitar. And they had recruited a neighborhood friend to play
drums.
“I was really depressed one day in my bedroom, thinking about all
this, and they started playing,” Hoge recalls. “I watched from the
bedroom window and it was like a portal back to the time when you’re not
thinking about touring companies or LLCs or insurance for employees.
You just want to write songs and play music. I wasn’t that young when I
started a band. I was 16 or 17 when I got my first guitar and wanted to
write songs and wanted to do this professionally. Seeing them really
over the next couple of days helped me re-center what I wanted to do and
I wrote that song, ’17.'”
The coming-of-age acoustic rocker was the first song Hoge had written
in a while that he really felt good about, and he added it to his list
of songs for a potential album.
“I put ‘Young As You Will Ever Be’ on the list and then over the next
few weeks, the rest of the songs started coming,” he said. “I went back
to making myself write by myself every day.”
The result is Hoge’s strongest material to date. Sheryl Crow is the
Bonnie Bramlett to his Delaney on the lead single “Little Bit of Rust,”
which was co-written with James LeBlanc (Gary Allan’s “Learning How to
Bend,” Kenny Chesney’s “I Remember”).
Hoge partnered with hit-maker Adam Hood (Little Big Town’s “Front
Porch Thing,” Frankie Ballard’s “Grandpa’s Farm”) to write the acoustic
ballad “Angel Wings.” He co-wrote “Baby’s Eyes” with Brendan Benson (the
Raconteurs and Ashley Monroe’s “Mayflowers”). “Young As You Will Ever
Be” was co-written with Dylan Altman (Jason Aldean’s “Take a Little
Ride,” Tim McGraw’s “Watch the Wind Blow By”).
Hoge will tour Anchors through January 2018. On Sept. 15, he will perform at the Rhythm and Roots Reunion in Bristol, Tennessee.
CMT.com: What made “Anchors” the perfect title songs for this collection?
Hoge: “Anchors” is sort of a double-edged thing. It
can be something that holds you and keeps you rooted in things that are
important. Anchors can also be something that tethers you to the ghosts
and demons from the past that you want to shake but can’t.
If there’s a theme in the record, there are real-life moments and a
lot of them aren’t one of those two things. But there are little bits of
both those things in everyday life. I thought it kind of encapsulated
the whole record in one word.
Had you toured with Sheryl Crow before?
We’ve done random shows over the years. We got to know one another
more through our kids. Her boys are the exact same age as mine. My wife
Julia is good friends with Cass Bentley, Dierks’ wife. And then she’s
friends with Sheryl, and so Julia had met them through the wives circle
of friends.
The boys had a play date and we started seeing them more through
that, and then we randomly started talking about different things. She
had mentioned at one point that if I ever wanted to use her studio — and
she’s got an incredible setup — I could use her place because that’s
just the kind of woman that she is. She’s always trying to pull people
forward and make great art. The studio didn’t make sense, but it did
make sense to call and ask if she would sing on a song. She didn’t even
seem to hesitate. She’s just so good.
As much your life informs your art, how much of what your
fans go through every day — watching it on the news or seeing it play
out at your shows — informs your music?
A ton. I feel like in a lot of ways, it’s a peer group. There are
people who are older in the fan base and people who are younger. But I
feel like the idea of trying to find love and hold a relationship
together is really not any different than when you’re 60 or 18.
Hopefully, you know more about it at 60 than you do 18.
But that’s pretty universal and timeless I think. It informs it quite
a bit. I consider my fans to be an extended group of friends and
family. It plays into it.
The thing I love about music now and making it is the same thing I
loved about listening to it when I was a kid. There were moments when
someone on a record conveyed exactly what I felt. And that could be
something as benign as thinking a girl was pretty or something as heavy
as social commentary. A great social commentary song is not more
important as a great cruisin’-around-in-a-car-with-a girl song.
I always hope that the records I make will reach somebody in the same
way records I loved reached me as a middle class white kid growing up
in Franklin, Tennessee. What are the things that open your eyes to a
bigger world than the 25 miles most of us spend our lives growing up in?
I guess in some way I hope that what you do as an artist provides that
same escapism for somebody else.
How do you not lose touch with the needs of your audience?
I think if you’re in tune with yourself and the universe at large,
it’s not a hard thing to stay in touch with. This is where we get all
[screwed] up with conservatism and what’s real America and what’s not.
We all want clean water, a safe place to raise a family, education
for our kids, food. We all want to be able to put a little bit of money
away, take your family on a vacation here and there and live a happy and
healthy life. I mean, really and truly, that’s not a crazy concept. And
that’s not hard for me to stay in touch with. That’s the same thing I
struggle with every day in my own life, and so I think it’s a pretty
universal thing if we can cut to that every time.
Going back to your kids playing in your garage, what kind of music were they playing and was it original or covers?
They have two original songs. One is called “Into Darkness,” which is
a song about going into the darkness. And that one is kind of dark and
brooding. Then the other one is like a Ramones kind of song called
“George, You Are Under Arrest.” My youngest son’s name is George, and so
that one makes me a little nervous. The chorus goes, “George, you are
under arrest/George, you are under arrest/George, you are under/George,
you are under/George, you are under arrest.” That’s really one of my
favorite songs I’ve ever heard. Now George is going to do drum lessons
because he really wants to get better and maybe sing and play drums.
Sounds like a Levon Helm in the making.
Sounds like a Levon Helm in the making.
Liam wants to take trumpet lessons, so they can add that in, too. I don’t know what the hell the kind of band it’s going to be.
Glen Campbell’s Daughter Shares Memories, Personal Photos
Ashley Campbell Remembers Her Father in Letter to Fans
Ashley Campbell, Glen Campbell’s daughter, shared family photos and a letter to fans on Friday (Aug. 11).
Glen Campbell died Tuesday in Nashville at age 81 following a lengthy
battle with Alzheimer’s disease. The Country Music Hall of Fame member
was laid to rest on Wednesday during a private ceremony in his hometown
of Delight, Arkansas.
In addition to Ashley, he is survived by his wife Kim Campbell and
their sons Cal and Shannon. Other survivors include his children from
previous marriages — Debby, Kelli, Travis, Kane, and Dillon — and 10
grandchildren, great- and great-great-grandchildren.
In her letter to fans, Ashley wrote about being with her father as
his health declined and how music kept him connected to his family.
Ashley, Cal and Shannon were members in their father’s band during his 2012 Farewell Tour.
She released her autobiographical single, “Remembering,” in 2015,
Luke Bryan: A Decade of #TeamFishin’
A Few Lessons in Trout Fishing
Just about everything I know about fishing I learned from Luke
Bryan’s “Tackle Box.” (I grew up with a single mom in the suburbs of
Detroit, so we just weren’t part of that outdoorsy huntin’ and fishin’
life.)
“Tackle Box”
is a fishing song Bryan co-wrote that I first heard almost exactly 10
years ago. The ballad about fishing with his grandpa was on his debut
album I’ll Stay Me, released on August 14, 2007. And it’s all
about how he’d bait his hook and “keep on tellin’ stories ’bout nickel
Cokes, girls and sandlot glories” and, ultimately, how his grandpa would
open up every time he opened up his old tackle box.
So when Bryan posted a video on Facebook on Thursday (Aug. 10),
saying, “We are definitely #TeamFishin this week,” I knew I’d learn even
more about fishing.
After watching about five minutes of the trip that Bryan, his family and his friends took, here’s what I learned:
The North Platte River in Alcova, Wyoming, is one of the best places to catch (and release) wild brown and rainbow trout.
There’s usually an average of about 3,000 trout — mostly rainbow — per river mile.
You can wade or fish from your boat, and it looks like Bryan did a little bit of both.
Alex Williams’ Cosmic Country Flows on Better Than Myself
What the His Debut Album Says About the State of Country Music
Depending on the artist, it’s every music maker’s dream to create
songs that are bigger and better than themselves — music that withstands
the test of time long after they’re gone.
Alex Williams, a 26-year-old native of Pendleton, Indiana, did just that with his full length debut album Better Than Myself.
The 12-song collection is a colorful mix of honky-tonk and cosmic
country that stands up to the material heard on impactful debuts such as
Guy Clark’s Old No. 1, Steve Earle’s Guitar Town and Todd Snider’s Songs for the Daily Planet.
The timing of Williams’ music could not be more perfect. He is part
of an undercurrent of rising hard country stalwarts like Paul Cauthen,
Cody Jinks, Cody Johnson, Nikki Lane and Margo Price who are all gaining
in popularity by the minute. Contributing to this honky-tonk movement
is a combination of defining moments that occurred within the last
decade.
Jamey Johnson laid the foundation for this return to hard country with 2008’s That Lonesome Song and his 2010 double album The Guitar Song.
Now clean and sober, Johnson continues to create and plays to packed
audiences every time he tours. This summer, he added a horn section to
his band.
Chris Stapleton sweeping the 2015 CMA Awards and his following
success at the 58th annual Grammy Awards catapulted him to superstardom
and exposed a greater fan demand for more country music that speaks to
everyday life (and not just what happens on Friday and Saturday).
Kacey Musgraves and Jason Isbell each delivered career-defining albums such as Musgraves’ Same Trailer, Different Park and Pageant Material; and Isbell’s Southeastern, Something More Than Free and The Nashville Sound.
In February, Sturgill Simpson picked up his first Grammy for best country album for A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, which was also nominated in the all-genre album of the year category.
Miranda Lambert poured her heart out on The Weight of These Wings,
her first double album following her split from her ex-husband Blake
Shelton. The collection has gone platinum since its 2016 release.
Storytellers like Brandy Clark, Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley and
Charlie Worsham continue to captivate with their distinctive imagery in
song. Then there’s the Texas contingent represented by the Randy Rogers
Band, Turnpike Troubadours and others whom fans can trust to tour and
play until the day they die.
All of this has essentially happened without the support of corporate
country radio, which continues to favor pop and rock-influenced country
by predominantly male artists.
During our cold beer conversation for CMT.com at Williams’ home away
from home, Nashville’s Red Door Saloon on Division Street, he said he
believes his career off to a good start. At the time, Williams was fresh
off a six-month tour with Aaron Lewis where he was introduced to
hundreds of loyal hard country fans night after night.
“I’m happy that there’s people who are doing traditional stuff and
making a living out there playing music,” Williams said. “I’m just doing
what inspires me. It’s always come full circle to me. I might be wrong.
But it feels good that people still care about traditional sounding
shit.”
They certainly do. Millions of fans from around the world continue to
make pilgrimages to America’s music capitals to satisfy their love for
traditional roots music. For jazz, they travel New Orleans or New York.
For blues and soul, there’s Chicago, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Alabama or
Clarksdale, Mississippi. Bristol, Tennessee has bluegrass, traditional
folk and country, while Austin and Nashville offer a taste of
everything.
“I love country music that sounds traditional, and I always have that
quirky mentality on things,” Williams said. “I love Jerry Jeff Walker
and all the ’70s Texas guys. I think that really translates to my
mindset as far as where my head’s at. I’m not trying to bash pop country
music because there’s a market for everything. But I think being safe,
that’s been a huge problem.
“I’m not trying to be an outlaw or whatever,” he added. “I just love
thinking outside of the box. Cosmic country is my deal. There’s
definitely a spacey vibe with this album. I think we’ve captured that,
and I hope we capture it more on the next one.”
Most of the songs on Better Than Myself are inspired by
Williams’ life within the last decade, and some were written within the
two months leading up to his two-day recording session with
Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter Julian Raymond.
Basic tracking was done live with an all-star cast of session players
including drummer Victor Indrizzo (Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris),
keyboard player Matt Rollings (Lyle Lovett, Mark Knopfler), bassist
Joeie Canaday (Leann Rimes, Steven Curtis Chapman), pedal steel player
Dan Dugmore (James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt) and guitarists Tom Bukovac
(Don Henley, Stevie Nicks) and J.T. Corenflos (Dolly Parton, Alan
Jackson).
The high lonesome harmonica solos on the title track is by Willie
Nelson’s longtime harp player Mickey Raphael. The song’s lyrics are
loosely inspired by a comment the drummer of Williams’ former band once
said to him.
“My old band hated me for a minute,” Williams admitted. “But it was
really my drummer that was like, ‘Hey, man. Your songs are better than
you are.’ That was kind of hard to hear, but I was like, ‘Dude, I’ve got
to write that down and do something with it.’ And so I wrote it and it
just felt right. It’s not necessarily about that. I just feel like it
signifies a new beginning.”
Co-written with Marshall Altman, the fiery “More Than Survival”
insists on living a life that’s more meaningful than just getting by.
Altman also co-wrote “Strange Days” and “Freak Flag,” the latter of
which is an ode to self-acceptance.
“I want to write songs that make people feel like they don’t have to
do everything this world tells you to do because there’s a lot of
expectations,” Williams said. “I might be a douche when I say that. But
that’s how I feel.”
“Few Short Miles,” which draws inspiration from someone Williams met
at one of his first gigs in Texas, and “Old Tattoo,” which is a tribute
to his late grandfather and the strength of his mother and grandmother
following his passing, were written solo.
“I didn’t know my grandpa that well,” he said. “I just saw my mom and
my grandma and how they dealt with that so easily. It’s really hard to
do for somebody that can just hide that and keep moving on. It was just
one of those things I wish I knew him better than I did.”
When asked which artists Williams hopes fans discover when listening to Better Than Myself,
he responded by kidding around about the subject. Practicing brutal
honesty and joking around with people are essential to who he is. And he
loves to do both much as he loves smoking Camel Blues.
“I hope people discover people that are actually cool and not fucking
idiots like myself,” he joked. “It’s good to be surrounded by people
who are doing the same things you’re doing. I love what Cody Jinks is
doing. I dig what Margo’s doing. Jamey Johnson, Jinks, Paul Cauthen — I
would love to be into that world. I’ll play with anybody.”
Williams will celebrate Friday’s (Aug. 11) release of Better Than Myself
with a headlining show at Nashville’s Basement East. He is on tour
through fall, opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackberry Smoke and Aaron
Lewis.
Jana Kramer: “Love Was My Drug”
“I’ve Done Love” Was a Song Waiting for Her
When Jana Kramer planned a lunch date with songwriter Nicolle Galyon,
she probably never imagined it would come to this: her brand new
single, “I’ve Done Love,” to be released Aug. 18.
But after a couple of glasses of wine at Midtown Nashville’s Tavern,
and before their food even arrived, the two women had told each other
their life stories. And where there are life stories, there are country
songs.
Kramer told me about the instant connection the two women had that day.
“I told her my story and touched on relationships and my journey, and
she told me hers. And the next day, she said, ‘I have this song,'”
Kramer recalled.
Her next thought — after hearing it — was, “This is the song. This is
so me. I’ve been tipsy but never drunk. And I don’t have the sting of
needle, and I haven’t woken up with a bottle, but I’ve done love.”
“Love was my drug,” she said when we caught up on her tour bus before a recent show.
Galyon looks back on that lunch just as fondly.
“After about two glasses of wine, we were more than friends,” Galyon
told me. “We had shared our whole life stories. All the messy, raw, real
life stories.
“Then not long after, I was writing with Shane McAnally and he
brought up ‘I’ve Done Love,’ a song that had been written for at least a
year already. And after knowing Jana’s story, it felt like it was just
sitting there waiting for her.”
The lyrics compare the ups and downs of love with the ups and downs
of the hard stuff. As in, you can take hits, wake up hungover, go on
midnight binges and get your fix in a back alley even if you’ve never
touched a drop or a drug.
The song — written by Galyon, McAnally and Josh Osborne — is one that
Kramer says has a groove to it, but it’s definitely a country one.
“I’ll always do country music,” she said. “I sing the songs I want to sing. I’m doing me now.
“I’ve grown a lot from where I started, and I’m excited for people to hear that. This is the start of something really great.”
Dan + Shay Throw Caution to the Wind in “Road Trippin'”
They Hit the Road for the Perfect End-of-Summer Jam
With summer coming to a close, there’s no better song to help keep
its soon-to-be-memory alive than Dan + Shay’s “Road Trippin’.”
And can you think of more fun people to take a road trip with?
The grooving, summertime jam is as breezy as the wind blowing through
that turquoise Bronco convertible they’re driving as they cruise the
highways with their friends.
Shay Mooney’s voice once again takes center stage, and his dance moves aren’t too shabby either.
“Road Trippin'” is the latest from their album Obsessed, which also boasts the No. 1 single “How Not To.”
Dan + Shay’s will spend Friday (Aug. 11) in Oro-Mendonte, Canada, to
play the big Boots and Hearts Festival that also features Luke Bryan,
Keith Urban, Brantley Gilbert and Brett Eldredge. The duo have a busy
schedule through the end of the year, including stops on Thomas Rhett’s
Home Team Tour.
P.S. We need to borrow that Bronco ASAP, boys.
Miranda Lambert: “It Sometimes Overwhelms Me”
How She Feels When Fans Know the Words to Her Songs
Some of my favorite Miranda Lambert songs were never singles. They
were just the album cuts that never made it to the radio, but they made
it to my heart.
Songs like “What About Georgia,” “Greyhound Bound for Nowhere,”
“Guilty in Here,” “Airstream Song,” “Love Song,” “Dear Diamond,” “Two
Rings Shy” and, most recently, “Ugly Lights.”
Those are the songs I turn up and belt out every time they come on.
And I know I’m not alone, because at her concerts, fans sing along with
all her songs. Not just the hits.
And Lambert notices.
In a recent radio interview, she said that hearing the crowd back her up never gets old.
“They sing ever word to every song, not just singles,” she said. “You
know, album cuts. It’s just a feeling of, ‘Wow, this is why I do this
in the first place.’
“It takes you back to the first time that you were onstage for four
people, singing over beer bottles,” she said, “but then you’re like,
‘Wow, I’ve come to this, and people really know me, and know my music.’
“I don’t know … it just sometimes overwhelms me.”
Lambert just wrapped a two-night stay at Red Rocks in Colorado on
Wednesday night (Aug. 9) and has a few days off before she heads to the
Netherlands to begin a string of dates that also include stops in
England, Scotland and Ireland.
Billy Ray Cyrus Named 2018 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Inductee
Still the King Star’s Induction Ceremony Set for May 2018
CMT’s Still the King star Billy Ray Cyrus will join the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame during an induction ceremony on May 11, 2018 in Somerset, Kentucky.
A native of Flatwoods, Kentucky, Cyrus is part of the 2018 class of inductees with the late Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw star David “Stringbean” Akeman, along with bluegrass musician Dale Ann Bradley, Christian performer Jason Crabb, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon and country singer-musician Bobby Lewis.
The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum honors entertainers and music professionals from the Bluegrass state who have made significant contributions to the entertainment industry.
Previous inductees include Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Tom T. Hall, the Judds, Patty Loveless, the Everly Brothers and the Osborne Brothers.
Cyrus is currently on tour through the fall. His next album Set the Record Straight arrives Nov. 11.
A native of Flatwoods, Kentucky, Cyrus is part of the 2018 class of inductees with the late Grand Ole Opry and Hee Haw star David “Stringbean” Akeman, along with bluegrass musician Dale Ann Bradley, Christian performer Jason Crabb, singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon and country singer-musician Bobby Lewis.
The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum honors entertainers and music professionals from the Bluegrass state who have made significant contributions to the entertainment industry.
Previous inductees include Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Tom T. Hall, the Judds, Patty Loveless, the Everly Brothers and the Osborne Brothers.
Cyrus is currently on tour through the fall. His next album Set the Record Straight arrives Nov. 11.
Chris Stapleton’s Traveller Returns to No. 1
Billy Currington’s “Do I Make You Wanna” Again Most-Played Country Song
In its 118th week on Billboard‘s country albums chart, Chris Stapleton’s Traveller resides again at No. 1 this week.
It has switched places with Stapleton’s second solo album, From a Room: Volume 1, which held the prime spot last week.
What magic is going on here?
On the songs rankings, Billy Currington’s “Do I Make You Wanna,” claims its second straight week at No. 1.
The only new album to report is Joe Nichols’ Never Gets Old,
which enters at No. 15. Nichols first riveted the world in 2002 with
his magnificently hopeful single, “The Impossible.” Although that song
peaked at No. 3, Nichols has since scored six No. 1’s, including that
ultimate party song, “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off.”
Nichols’ last album, Crickets, came out in 2013.
Three albums return for your re-consideration — Rascal Flatts’ Back to Us (No. 28), George Strait’s 50 Number Ones (No. 45) and The Essential Johnny Cash (No. 48).
There are two new songs, the highest-debuting one being Josh Turner’s
“All About You,” popping in at No. 56, and Florida Georgia Line’s
“Smooth” (No. 59).
Celebrating a comeback are Gary Allan’s “Mess Me Up” (No. 52) and Lindsay Eli’s “Waitin’ on You” (No. 57).
The No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 albums, in that order, are Luke Combs’ This One’s For You, Sam Hunt’s Montevallo and Lucas Hoge’s Dirty South.
Montevallo, by the way, has been on the charts for 129 weeks, most of that time at or near the peak.
Rounding out the Top 5 songs are Cole Swindell’s “Flatliner,” Justin
Moore’s “Somebody Else Will,” Thomas Rhett’s “Craving You,” featuring
Maren Morris, and Dustin Lynch’s “Small Town Boy.”
Somewhere in Nashville this hot August day, they’re putting finishing touches on a Christmas album. My how the world does spin!
Old Dominion Bring Girl Power to New Music Video
ACM Winners Surprise Fans in Heartwarming “Be With Me”
When you hear Old Dominion’s newest single “Be With Me,” it’s easy to
get caught up in the groovy beat and uplifting, hooky chorus, but the
song is more than just a feel-good jam. And the deeper meaning is a very
important one for all the ladies out there.
“We’ve talked about that song — about it being on the surface and
just being kind of a lighthearted song — but it does have this kind of
undertone of girl power to it,” the group’s Matt Ramsey told CMT.com.
So when it came time to shoot a video for the single, the guys wanted to bring the female empowerment elements front and center.
“A lot of us have daughters,” Ramsey said. “I think that’s kind of an
important message that we would like them to take away from it. So our
director Steve Condon took that idea and ran with it and surprised us.”
In the video, we see ladies of all ages and backgrounds coming out to
audition for a chance to star in the video — or so they thought. Sneaky
Old Dominion pulled a fast one on them by using the audition footage in
the final video.
The result is a real conversation with women and girls that will warm
your heart, enlighten you and maybe even bring a few tears.
In the end, the guys themselves would get a big surprise, too, with
four special cameo appearances by very special women in their lives.
“We didn’t know that behind our backs, he filmed our mothers,” Ramsey
revealed. “It was cool. When we finally saw the finished product, it
was very exciting to us all.”
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