Nation star Billy Currington has shared a brand new track. Written by Currington’s late longtime collaborator Troy Jones, “King of the World” celebrates a laid-back summer time 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.” “King of the World” is out now through Mercury Nashville.
Currington is spending the summer time on the highway alongside fellow nation hitmaker Kip Moore, who launched the album Solitary Tracks earlier this yr. The USA tour contains 16 stops in main cities like Austin’s Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park on August 2 and Boston’s MGM Music Corridor at Fenway on September 19, in addition to a efficiency at Ohio’s Voices of America Nation Music Fest on August 7. The tour options assist from Marlon Funaki, an rising guitar participant whose work channels soul and psychedelic rock. Funaki launched an EP titled Overdue in March.
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.”
The Georgia songwriter’s discography started together with his self-titled 2003 debut, which featured the hits “I Got a Feelin’” and “Walk a Little Straighter,” which drew on private experiences of household and dependancy. His final album was 2021’s Instinct. His seventh full-length explored ’80s synth-pop, dance music, and R&B. In 2023, he shared a pair of songs titled “Anchor Man” and “City Don’t,” which returned to his extra conventional nation sound. Final yr, he dropped a track known as “Everything Is Changing,” a nostalgic monitor concerning the passage of time. He additionally launched a career-spanning compilation of his top-charting singles, #1’s Vol. 1.
Take heed to Billy Currington’s “King of the World” now.
