Together with his sixth studio album, Killed the Cowboy, nation artist Dustin Lynch delivers a mixture of high-energy tracks representing the hitmaker’s present chapter of life. The challenge options a number of cuts co-penned by Lynch with a few of the style’s most completed songwriters, together with Ashley Gorley, Jessi Alexander, Dallas Davidson, and Anderson East.
Killed the Cowboy options 12 new songs from Lynch, together with the nostalgia-driven “Chevrolet,” his talked-about duet with Jelly Roll. The document’s flirtatious second observe, “Honky Tonk Heartbreaker,” tells the story of an opportunity assembly that ignites a spark inside a rowdy bar. Penned by Lynch, Zach Crowell, Ben Johnson, and Hunter Phelps, the music provides the playful allure and catchy lyricism followers have come to anticipate from the proficient Tennessee native.
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Beneath, in his personal phrases, Dustin Lynch tells American Songwriter about what impressed his Killed the Cowboy observe “Honky Tonk Heartbreaker.”
“‘Honky Tonk Heartbreaker’ is a enjoyable music that, for me, captures the power of Decrease Broadway in Nashville, which is the place I all the time dreamed as a child I’d get to play. That was the prime—I needed to be on Broadway and the Grand Ole Opry and Bluebird Cafe—and it simply takes me again to these enjoyable years of studying the way to entertain a crowd, falling in love with the ladies that have been down there taking part in. And it hasn’t modified. I nonetheless like to go to Decrease Broadway. I nonetheless love going to nation bars in the center of nowhere.
“It’s a narrative music about the power and people interactions of fellows and ladies. You by no means know what’s going to occur, and there are such a lot of totally different characters, however most nights, the ladies find yourself calling the pictures and operating the present.”
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