To be fair, there are few acts that do what SmithField does. Country has plenty of duos
Florida Georgia Line,
Maddie & Tae,
Brothers Osborne, just to name a few but each of them is a single-gender combo. The last full-time male/female pair to log chart-topping singles,
Thompson Square, hit No. 1 in 2011 with Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not and in 2012 with If I Didn t Have You.
The paucity of that artistic structure is a head-scratcher at first glance, though even
Keifer and
Shawna Thompson understand why the configuration is so rare. You got to coexist with this other partner, boy or girl, says Keifer Thompson, and you got egos: ‘You re singing more than I do. ‘You re singing them better than I do. ‘I m fatter than you are. ‘I have abs. You have all this stuff that goes into play when you enter into a band or a duo. And so that s one giant obstacle right there: just coexisting together as a duo. And then you got the male/female version of that.
Go Country 105 - Chase Rice releasing The Album this month gocountry105.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gocountry105.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Syndicated Content
BBR Music Group
The Album on May 28. The project will combineÂ
The Album Part IÂ andÂ
The Album Part II, both released in 2020.Â
The Album includes all 11 songs from the two previous installments, including the top-10 hit âLonely If You Are,â and his collaboration withÂ
Florida Georgia Line on âDrinkinâ Beer. Talkinâ God. Amen.â
The Album also features three new tracks: âThe Nights,â âBedroomâ and âIf I Didnât Have You.âÂ
âItâs crazy to look back now and see the journey this album has taken us on throughout writing and recording it,â Chase explains. âWe shared so many of these songs with the fans as they were being written and got their input along the way â so itâs their journey and lives in these, too.âÂ
Chase Rice releasing The Album this month wfxd.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfxd.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
You may be shocked, because they look so darn young, but . Shawna and Keifer Thompson of country duo Thompson Square have been married for more than 20 years. That s right: two full decades and then some, since May 15, 1999.
For some couples, autonomous careers are a good thing. But for the duo, that wasn t the case. We came in town to be artists, and we met really quickly, but we didn t realize until a few years into our marriage that the best way for us to coexist was for us to be together all the time, says Keifer. Being apart and doing our own things . we just weren t happy. We were happy doing music, and the relationship wasn t suffering, but it wasn t as good without her.