The multi-platinum nation star Billy Currington has introduced his latest studio album. King of the World is out October 24 through MCA.
The announcement comes with a brand new observe, “One Thing I Ain’t Been.” And what’s that one factor? “Making me finally see/Why everything I tried to be/Left me wanting more,” currington sings. “’Cause the one thing I ain’t been/Is yours.”
Currington co-wrote a number of tracks on King of the World alongside legendary songwriters like Dean Dillon and Scotty Emerick with further contributions from Corey Crowder, Johnny Clawson, Ben Hayslip, and others. Songs like “Run For My Whiskey,” “Burnin’ The Midnight Gasoline,” and “Bourbon Sunset” promise a superb time. Produced by Carson Chamberlain, this 10-track undertaking shall be Currington’s seventh studio album after 2021’s Instinct, which explored ’80s synth-pop, dance music, and R&B.
Currington beforehand shared the title observe, which was written by Currington’s late longtime collaborator Troy Jones. “King of the World” celebrates a laid-back summer season feeling: “I got the radio playing and my boat while I float/Take a toke while I listen to Merle,” he sings over a mellow guitar. “A hot sun, cold one, I’ll be son of a gun/I’m king of the world.”
Over twenty years, Currington has tallied 12 nation No. 1 singles together with multi-platinum hits like “People Are Crazy,” “Good Directions,” “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right,” “Do I Make You Wanna,” and “We Are Tonight.”
Currington is at present on the street alongside fellow nation hitmaker Kip Moore, who launched the album Solitary Tracks earlier this 12 months. America tour contains 16 stops in main cities like Boston’s MGM Music Corridor at Fenway on September 19. The tour options help from Marlon Funaki, an rising guitar participant whose work channels soul and psychedelic rock. Funaki launched an EP titled Overdue in March.
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