Rhett contemplates "Death Row"
The song features Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line and Russell Dickerson. Rhett writes of visiting prisoners on death row and what we can learn from them.
The song was penned after the three visited a men's prison in Tennessee with their guitars. Rhett wrote the sobering track of redemption alongside Ashley Gorley and Zack Crowell.
"Tyler, Russell and I went and played some songs for a men's prison here in Tennessee," Rhett said. "We left with a lot of complex feelings, so I started writing as a way to process the heaviness. Our goal was for people to understand our experience by way of music. It's basically a page directly from our journal that day."
The album
It was also announced this week that Rhett stars in the first new Fritos television commercial in 20 years for its "Down For Everything" campaign, airing nationwide now ahead of his live performance at the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards airing on Prime Video, March 7 at 8 p.m. eastern.
More news
- 05/12/22: Hubbard announces debut single
- 04/01/22: Rhett, Tuttle, Cauthen drop new music
- 01/21/22: Rhett will Bring the Bar to You
- 01/14/22: Rhett announces "Where We Started"
- 12/03/21: Rhett's "Slow Down Summer" video debuts
- 11/17/21: Rhett becomes a father again
- 11/08/21: Rhett embraces "Slow Down Summer"
- 08/20/21: FGL cancels tour due to COVID
CD reviews
Thomas Rhett is in the artistic zone. Rhett Atkins' boy never really struggled to get noticed, but starting around 2015, his impact went nuclear – "Die A Happy Man" wasn't just a number one, but a monster that stayed there for two months. The ACM Award for Entertainer of the Year still carries a lot of weight, and Rhett nabbed it in 2019.
Still, Rhett's sound has its doubters – a lot of the air-quote country hits were grafted to other dance, pop and soul styles. ...
When Florida Georgia Line sing about how much they love their country with "I Love My Country," this lightning rod duo must certainly be aware that not everybody loves 'their' country. 'Their' country doesn't always match the country music of George Strait, after all, who is name-dropped in said song. Strait is just too stylistically straight, for instance, to ever work in the sort of hip-hop cadence that drives "Ain't Worried About It. ...
Thomas Rhett represents a dilemma for traditional country music fans. Namely, that he doesn't create much country music that appeals to traditional tastes. Although "Center Point Road" doesn't entirely reverse that trend, even during its most overtly pop moments, this new collection of songs is still a pretty good one.
The best song is also a love song - to a truck - titled "That Old Truck." It's the kind of song that only makes sense within country music circles. ...
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