NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After announcing the upcoming release of his highly-anticipated Country Stuff The Album (available 1/21) and simultaneously dropping his latest, rising single “AA,” GRAMMY-nominated Walker Hayes continues to deliver new music with his latest track, “Drinking Songs” on Monument Records.
Joining prior releases including his current single “AA,” “U Gurl” and his first No. 1 song “Fancy Like,” “Drinking Songs” features Hayes’ signature witty lyrics, sticky melodies and autobiographical storylines. Written by Hayes along with Jordan Gray and produced by “Fancy Like” collaborator Joe Thibodeau and Multi-GRAMMY Award Winner Shane McAnally, the new track finds Hayes paradoxically declaring his love of drinking songs while proudly six years sober – he may have quit drinking, yet he can’t quite surrender Country music’s long standing devotion to songs about them.
“‘Drinking Songs’ is one of my favorites off the new album,” shares Hayes. “I don’t drink anymore but I still connect with how a song can get you through, just like a drink can for some people. We’ve all been in a bar full of people singing together, arms around each other. Plus, the lyrics and the beat just have a relatable quality to them that feels so country to me.”
With a tribute to the traditions the great Hank Williams Jr. has long sang about, “Drinking Songs” calls to Bocephus for guidance:
SO GIVE ME THAT BOURBON AND BOCEPHUS
I CAN’T HELP ME SO HELP ME JESUS
SHE AIN’T COMING BACK LIKE YOU SHE GONE
SO WHAT I NEED IS IN WILLIAM’S VOICE RIGHT NOW
HANK AND EVAN DON’T LET ME DOWN
BRING THEM FAMILY TRADITIONS ON
I’MMA JUST KEEP SITTIN AND SIPPIN’ AND SINGING ALONG
THANK GOD FOR DRINKING AND DRINKING SONGS
Listen to “Drinking Songs” HERE.
Pre-Order / Pre-Add Country Stuff The Album HERE. Country Stuff The Album was produced by Hayes with Joe Thibodeau and Multi-GRAMMY Award winner Shane McAnally.
Country Stuff The Album Track Listing:
Drinking Songs
AA
Life With You
U Gurl
DeLorean
Fancy Like
Craig (feat. MercyMe)
What You Don’t Wish For
Country Stuff (feat. Jake Owen)
I Hope You Miss Me
Briefcase (feat. Lori McKenna)
Cry
What If We Did (feat. Carly Pearce)
Hayes will kick off his headlining tour, The Fancy Like Tour, in Grand Rapids, MI on January 27, 2022.
About Walker Hayes
Monument Records recording artist, Walker Hayes, is a GRAMMY Nominated singer/songwriter originally from Mobile, Alabama. His forthcoming album County Stuff The Album features new single “AA” and smash hit “Fancy Like.” “Fancy Like” has topped every sales and streaming chart since its release, spent over four months at the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs, was featured in a national Applebee’s ad campaign, and hit the top 5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs.
The proud father of six has performed his music, including the Double-Platinum RIAA certified hit “You Broke Up With Me,” to national audiences on Good Morning America, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the TODAY Show, and was profiled for CBS Sunday Morning. He will kick off his headlining The Fancy Like Tour in 2022.
