Red, White And Blue (Live) is out now via Loud & Proud Records.Ĥ) Neil Young/Waylon Jennings/Shooter Jennings – Are You Ready For The Country
But we had a gold record on our wall before we knew it.” HY We were just doing it to see basically if we could break into a different genre of music. My Kind Of Country really took off for us. You never know for sure, but you have a gut reaction. I believe that if I can touch you, emotionally and spiritually, then I’m gonna have a hit song there. “A great country song has to be the truth, because people can see through it. So we’d actually ride around Nashville at four in the morning, listening to what we’d recorded that day, all hyped up. Then we’d leave the studio, and Johnny and myself were both so wired up that we couldn’t go to sleep. We recorded it at night – you’re talking two o’clock in the morning. “We wrote that song in Nashville, Tennessee. If we have to struggle to write a song, it’s not worth messing with it. I live very simply, and there’s nothing wrong with that. We love little-league baseball, hanging out with family and cooking out. We just started writing down the things we do. “Everything you hear in that song is all true. But we were the first ones to really jump from the rock genre to country. And we grew up with the old country: guys like George Jones, Merle Haggard and Hank Williams. My father was a truck driver, my mother was the manager of a doughnut shop. “A lot of people couldn’t believe we did a country record but, to be truthful, it wasn’t that big of a leap for Johnny and myself. “A great country song has to be the truth” – Donnie Van Zant tells us about the making of My Kind Of Country But with lines such as ‘ We got Johnny Cash, Back In Black, southern rock’n’roll’ there’s no disguising the rowdy good-time nature of this belter of a track. The project allowed the pair to play a more country style of music than their respective day jobs, with a message that didn’t always translate easily outside of the God-fearing, gun-toting southern states. 38 Special-fronting brother Donnie (both younger siblings of late Skynyrd mainman Ronnie). (David Lee Murphy, Shane Minor & Jesse Murphy)ģ.The title track from the fifth collaboration between Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant and. I received an advance copy of the album and I will say that is definitely one you should check out and seriously consider adding to your own collection.īy: Buck Stevens (Photo courtesy of Blue Chair/Reviver Records) David Lee has songwriting credits on all 11 tracks on the album that is set to be released Friday, April 6th.
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The album is called No Zip Code and Kenny co-produced it with Buddy Cannon. That song is currently climbing the country radio airplay singles charts in the top 15 this week and can be heard on B104. You can hear Kenny talk about the song and performance in the video below.ĭavid Lee and Kenny’s duet “ Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” is the debut single from the new album. He goes on to explain the reason for his statement, “I don’t believe there’s a better singer-songwriter out there that has captured our imagination with all of his songs through so many different artists.”Īs a songwriter David Lee’s credits include songs like “ Big Green Tractor” by Jason Aldean, “ Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” by Thompson Square, “ The More I Drink” by Blake Shelton, “ A Feelin’ Like That” by Gary Allan, “ The Only Way I Know” by Jason Aldean with Luke Bryan and Eric Church and Kenny Chesney’s “ Living In Fast Forward” to name just a handful.ĭavid Lee has also written songs that he recorded himself like his hit songs “Out With A Bang,” “Party Crowd” and his anthem “ Dust On A Bottle.” Kenny performed that anthem with David Lee in concert and included it on his #1 live album Live in No Shoes Nation last year. “I think he’s the original hillbilly rock star,” Kenny states. However, Kenny is also a fan of his friend. Kenny and David Lee are long time friends and have worked together over the years. Singer-songwriter David Lee Murphy is about to release a new album that was co-produced by Kenny Chesney.
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