Thomas Rhett Previews Fifth Album With ‘What’s Your Country Song’

Thomas Rhett has been working on his fifth album, and is giving fans the first taste with his new song, “What’s Your Country Song.”

“What’s Your Country Song” was written by Rhett and his father, Rhett Akins, along with Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley and Parker Welling, and on the track he asks “What’s Your Country Song” as he includes references to different country songs throughout the lyrics. In the chorus, he sings, “Everybody got a small town anthem/ Everybody got a story to tell/ Everybody got a hallelujah/ Everybody been through a little hell/ When you’re rolling down a little two-lane highway/ And you turn your radio on/ Tell me which one hits you baby/ Yeah what’s your country song.”

In a statement to iHeartRadio, Rhett explained of his new song:

“‘What’s Your Country Song’ was written actually in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas. My dad was there and a couple of our songwriter buddies, Parker Welling, Jesse Frasure, Ashley Gorley, and it was one of those days where we really didn’t have many ideas. So, it was one of those days we were scrolling through our phones and I had found this concept idea for ‘What’s Your Country’ or ‘Where’s Your Country.’ And I got that idea just from, I guess, just all my years of traveling on the road and getting to meet people from the country, from California to New York. And I think I just kinda noticed that everybody had a little bit of country inside of them, whether they knew it or not. So we started to write this kind of anthemic song, using a bunch of old song titles that really inspired me growing up. So, into all the verses are actually old country song titles that kind of transitioned into a story.”

He added, “It really is just about, what is your country song? Where did you grow up? What’d you do? What’d you do growing up? What were your parents like? Do you remember your first boyfriend? Your first girlfriend? And where do these songs that are in this song take you back to? And really just kind of trying to inspire the listener to remember that those songs were for them, and hopefully they take them back to a really memorable moment in time.”

Rhett’s new album will follow his hit 2019 project, Center Point Road. A release date and other details have yet to be revealed.

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