![]() ![]() Wallen celebrates his southern and athletic bonafides in this gently chugging track, celebrating that he “wrote the book” when it comes to those his skills. “It’s been nights that start with whiskey/ and days that end in why,” with no answer forthcoming. There are some lovely adjectival descriptions here from his “dead grass drive” to her “hand-me-down earrings,” that instantly paint a picture of what life was like before she left - and the sadness that has followed as the days blur into each other. But they admit, they may be spending too much time on old barstools instead of reading “them words in red,” but somehow these country boys will survive. “Can’t get no closer to the Man upstairs/Than way out there, where the river runs,” they sing. Nature is where many people feel closest to God and Wallen and HARDY are no different in this sweet, guitar-driven ode. In this mid-tempo track, Wallen compares his relationship to the Braves and, similarly, coming up short despite giving it his best. Here, Wallen throws in a number of Whitley song or album titles, including “I’m No Stranger to the Rain,” “Kentucky Bluebird” and even “Miami, My Amy” as he drinks over her memory and laments that “The things I love got a way of gettin’ gone too soon/kinda like good whiskey, Keith Whitley and you.” Listen here.įor non-baseball fans, the ’98 Atlanta Braves mounted a comeback during the playoffs, but ultimately lost to the San Diego Padres. Listen here.Ĭountry music is filled with song titles taken from artists’ names: Taylor Swift’s “Tim McGraw” and Eric Church’s “Springsteen” to name two. In what some folks are wondering is an answer to Megan Moroney’s “Tennessee Orange”- though he switches the woman’s allegiance from Georgia to Alabama - Wallen converts a die-hard Alabama fan to a Tennessee Volunteer after just one night together in this story song. She’s gone from a “Broadway city girl” to a “red dirt wild child” and she’s not mad about it. One of the several rap-influenced tunes, the programmed drums and synths details how Wallen’s girl has done a complete 180 turnaround since coming into his world. It’s fun, but ultimately, unlike the popular truck, goes nowhere. Like many songs on the album, “F150-50” takes a clever idea-in this case, taking the popular Ford truck name and using it as the vehicle his ex leaves in, but also to say the chances are “F150-50” that she’s coming back. One of the rap-influenced tracks on the set with trap beats and rapid-fire lyric delivery (or as rapid-fire as Wallen gets), the song recalls early Florida Georgia Line above all else and may be good for a hell-raising night but feels by the numbers. Upon the album’s March 3 release, we picked the top 10 tunes, but now we’re back to rank all 36 songs on the Moi-produced set, from the least to the greatest. It was amazing having him in the room the whole time with me.” This one I feel like we nailed the calendar, and he was there for every moment of it. Second record, we were able to engineer the calendar a little better but he was still heavy in obligations he was present for way more than the first record. I’d squirrel away and work on the music getting ready for him to come back. “He was on tour, and then we would cut the songs together in the studio, and then he’d go off on tour. “The first record, in a budding career new artist is weird, you kind of get stripped of all your time to make the record, so we really panicked our way through that one,” Moi said. Moi also noted Wallen’s involvement in the studio has become deeper with each album release. One Thing at a Time producer Joey Moi added, “It seemed like the more we cut, the more songs would show up. “The songs just kind of naturally came in,” Wallen previously told Billboard. The album, which features collaborations with Eric Church, HARDY and ERNEST, was culled from 42 songs to its final 36 tracks. In its first four days, OTAAT surpassed the 240 million tally hit by Wallen’s 2021 album, Dangerous: The Double Album, in its first full week. We won’t officially know until Sunday (March 12) how big Morgan Wallen’s new album, the super-sized One Thing at a Time, will debut on the Billboard 200, but we know the 36-track set is already a blockbuster.Īs of Wednesday (March 8), the 36 tracks have accumulated 315 million on-demand streams, already the biggest week for any 2023 album, according to Luminate. ![]()
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