Dangerous: The Double Album on Friday (Jan. 29).
Wallen shared Bandaid on a Bullet Hole and This Side of a Dust Cloud, which were previously offered only as Target exclusive tracks adding to his collection of 30 songs on the original album. This Side of a Dust Cloud finds the singer flexing his East Tennessee twang as he relays what it feels like to be on the other side of heartbreak. While he s typically the one to do the leaving, Wallen is getting a taste of his own medicine that he admits is more bitter than sweet, and he s left with a broken heart as his love leaves him in the dust.
Still That Kid he skipped the long way home.
The 11-song project (plus two alternate versions) sounds like what an album made by someone who grew up in America s heartland should sound like. It s low on cheap thrills, heavy on small town imagery and brushed with muscle and soft personal touches. Mize says he followed impulses and then back-tracked. He wrote songs and then scrapped them in favor of the unbelievable cuts he received from Music City A-listers. Most of all, he listened. He listened a lot. Slow is an important song on the album, if not a signature track. The soulful ballad is what you d get if Lee Brice sang a Billy Currington song: smart storytelling combined with a passionate delivery you can t help but learn a lesson from, especially in 2021, when even during a pandemic the world moves too damn fast.
Billboard s all-genre album chart in back-to-back weeks.
Dangerous: The Double Album is the No. 1 album on the
Billboard 200 for a second straight week on the strength of record-breaking streaming numbers. During its debut week, the album earned 265,000 album-equivalent units, of which 74,000 were pure album sales. During week two, those numbers dropped to 159K equivalent albums with 22K in pure sales. That it s a double album with 30 songs gives him an advantage, but
Dangerous more than doubles the week s No. 2
Billboard 200 album, by Pop Smoke. Luke Combs
What You See Is What You Get is the No. 2 country album.
That s a lot of numbers. What s significant is how long it s been since a country artist went back-to-back on top of the
Veteran country outlaw Dallas Moore is ready to drop a new album in April, but he s giving The Boot s readers a sneak peek. The Rain, the title track of and lead song from the singer and songwriter s next record, is premiering exclusively on The Boot; press play below to listen.
A rocking country shuffle, The Rain is a profession of rebirth and love: I swear that high black water saved my soul / So take me as I am, my dear / And I ll take you far away from here / And live that life we lived out in our dreams, Moore promises over a twangy melody of guitar and pedal steel, led by a steady drum beat and accented with jaunty fiddle courtesy of two-time CMA Musician of the Year winner Jenee Fleenor.
Sayin What I m Thinkin is slated for a full release next month.
The Feb. 19 release of Wilson s first album on Broken Brow Records ties together each of the last nine songs she s released to digital service providers, including Dirty Looks, LA, WWDD and the newly released Neon Diamonds. Veteran songwriters like Jonathon Singleton, Luke Dick and Jordan Schmidt can be found across the 12 songs, each of which was co-written by Wilson. Jay Joyce produced the project.
On social media, Wilson describes her sound as bell bottom country, a niche that includes plenty of tradition but also some progressive impulses. When Taste of Country first caught up with her four years ago, she was remarkable for her songwriting chops, thick Louisiana accent and stories of impersonating Hannah Montana as a job in high school.