Thomas Rhett Previews New Album

Thomas Rhett releases his second album, “Tangled Up” on September 25th.  He joined Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton to preview the new music.

“It’s a very different record, ‘Tangled Up’ describes it very well.  Me & my wife came up with this.  ‘Tangled Up’ is a song on the record.  But also when you think of something being tangled up, like a ball of rubber bands, if you would pull in different directions, it wouldn’t come apart. So Tangled Up describes my brain, in that it’s very scattered, I think a lot of artists’ brains are scattered, but also just the diversity of songs on this album, pulled from a lot of different influences on this album to make Tangled Up.”

How many of the songs did you wrote?  There are 13 songs, and I wrote 8 of them.  There’s one song called Like Its The Last Time that I wanted to be on the first album, but the rest are from this past year.

Is there anything on it that you wouldn’t expect? “I think 80% of the record you’re gonna say you wouldn’t expect.  It’s been this constant evolution for me as an artist, a writer,  and an entertainer.  I’ve got to play a bunch of shows and learned who my audience is.  For me on this record, ever since Make Me Wanna, I feel like I’ve evolved into the artist I’ve always wanted to me.”

How have you evolved? “For me, I had a different start.  My friends who started had a small fan base.  For me, I was just writing.  I may have had four fans, my mom, my dad, and grandparents.  For me, starting out, the first record was it was trial and error, and a shot in the dark.  It wasn’t until Make Me Wanna until I saw a different look in the crowd. It was like they got this dude, this is what he should be doing.  That song fueled Crash & Burn, and when Crash did good, it fueled me to  put some other songs that pushed me as an artist, not only vocally, but songs that might have been different for Thomas Rhett but I like it.”

Take me though some of the songs you particularly want us to hear: “I love a party as much as the next guy, so I made sure my party songs weren’t like the average party songs.  Thus, ‘Vacation’ that sounds like ‘Low Rider,’ or the title song ‘Tangled Up’ and ‘I Feel Good’ that features a guy named Lunch Money Lewis. That’s where you’ll hear a departure for me.  Then there’s ‘Die A Happy Man’ that I wrote for my wife.  It’s a very vulnerable song I’ve ever recorded, super personal to our marriage.  I did a song called ‘Playin’ With Fire’ that I wrote with my dad and sang with Jordin Sparks, talk about a powerhouse female vocalist.  She crushed it.  When you listen to the album from start to finish, you go through a journey from 1950 to the present, every song puts you through a different era of time.”

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