New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Multi PLATINUM-selling artist and entertainer
Clay Walker will release his 'Texas To Tennessee' album on July 30th via Show Dog Nashville. Produced by Michael Knox (Jason Aldean) and Jaron Boyer (Dierks Bentley's "
Somewhere On A Beach"), the 10-song collection's first single "Need A Bar Sometimes" is continuing to gain momentum.
Recorded in Nashville, TN and Galveston, TX, the album finds the native Texan embracing a number of dualities. Most notably, it finds a striking balance in reflecting the era of Walker's most prolific hit-making country music of the '90s and '00s that's enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, while fully articulating modern sounds and approaches. That aesthetic is perfectly embodied in the single.
Released last year, "Need A Bar Sometimes" was quickly hailed as the song-of-the-moment for a pandemic-weary world. Driven in tandem by a processed steel guitar lick and Walker's celebrated voice, the song has amassed almost 11 million on-demand streams, is adding 1 million radio impressions weekly and has garnered almost six million views for its official and lyric videos. The video has also been No. 1 or No. 2 on CMT's 12 Pack Countdown for more than a month. Taste of Country said, "Embraces his twang, but adds just the smallest amount of contemporary production to make a mix that fits 2020."
As a songwriter, Walker has long contributed to his albums - often writing solo - and he's credited on many of his biggest hits. For 'Texas To Tennessee,' he co-wrote each of the collection's 10 songs. "I got to write with the best writers in country music," he says. "Every writer on this album is accomplished, most came in with ideas they thought fit me or developed ideas I brought and it led to real cohesiveness in all these songs."
'Texas To Tennessee' joins a body of work that already includes four platinum albums, 31 charted singles and 11 No. 1 hits. Among them are "Live Until I Die," "Dreaming With My Eyes Open," "If I Could Make A Living," "This Woman And This Man," "Hypnotize The Moon," "Rumor Has It," "Then What," "The Chain Of Love," "
I Can't Sleep" and "She Won't Be Lonely Long."
Track listing for 'Texas To Tennessee':
1. Anything To Do With You (Clay Walker,
Brandon Kinney, Shane Minor, Mike Mobley)
2. Need A Bar Sometimes (Walker, Jaron Boyer, Josh Mirenda,
George Birge)
3. Catching Up With An Ol' Memory (Walker, Boyer, Birge, Lalo Guzman)
4. Country Side (Clay Walker, Boyer, Lynn Wilbanks)
5. Cowboy Loves A Woman (Walker, Jennifer Hanson, Mark Nesler)
6.
Texas To Tennessee (Walker, Hanson, Nesler)
7. I Just Wanna Hold You (Walker, Boyer, Ben Stennis)
8. Loving You Then (Walker, Jaron Boyer, Brad Rempel, Stennis)
9. You Look Good (Walker, Boyer, Michael Tyler)
10. One More (Walker,
David Lee Murphy, Justin Weaver).
