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NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Kane Brown is in his unutilized house studio simply outdoor Nashville, getting ready to have the primary sit-down dialog about his fourth studio novel, “The High Road.” It’s a becoming name, as a result of pounding the pavement is one thing he’s greater than usual with. A couple of trim days in the past, he used to be in Los Angeles, acting on the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball along an eclectic mixture of the most important performers — SZA, Tate McRae, Madison Beer, T-Ache, Paris Hilton and Okay-pop team NCT Dream between the two of them.
To the untrained ear, it could appear atypical pairing — one of the vital stunning trendy nation voices along pop acts. However genre-mixing? That’s one thing Brown knows a little bit about, too.
Nation is on the center of the whole thing he does — the style’s narrative taste, fiddles, slide guitar and Brown’s signature twang raise right through — however “The High Road” isn’t afraid to play games with other sounds. He says he’s “always been kind of nervous to push boundaries and do certain things. But I’ve been here for almost a decade now, so I needed to stop hiding and just do what I love to do. And country is always my number one.”
“This is by far my favorite album, from the sequencing to the songwriting to the different sounds. There’s definitely a song for everybody,” he continues. “My other albums, I always kind of, you know, cared what people thought about. And this album, we don’t… we gave our everything into the songs.”
He’s additionally deny stranger to operating with quite a few artists, from regional Mexican nation famous person Carin León on “The One (Pero No Como Yo),” which absolved previous this past, to 2019’s “One Thing Right” with EDM gigantic Marshmello. The helmet-wearing DJ is again on “The High Road,” with the radio wreck “Miles On It.”
This novel, which shall be absolved Jan. 24, contains extra options than any alternative in Brown’s discography, together with tracks with Khalid, Jelly Roll, and the mythical Brad Paisley.
They took place naturally: Khalid expressed pastime in short of to exit nation, Brown helped him assemble it occur. For the Paisley observe “Things We Quit,” Brown shared a video of him making a song it on social media, and “a accumulation of society mentioned, ‘This sounds like a Brad Paisley song,’” he says, smiling. “And it’s kind of a comedy country song, a little bit, so he was perfect for that.”
And as for Jelly Roll, on the song “Haunted”? That one was written while Brown was staying in a hotel in Manchester, England.
“It was this big hotel, and I had the suite, which was a bank vault. So, the bank vault was actually in my room and there were these, like, old paintings on the wall. And we wrote three or four songs that day and we couldn’t recall to mind a tune name. And I used to be like, ‘This is place is haunted,’” he recalls. “Let’s incrible a tune referred to as ‘Haunted,’ about melancholy and all that. So, I cruel, it in reality, it got here out in reality fast and, you understand, it’s significant to me. So optimistically it’ll be significant to a accumulation of alternative society.”
Jelly Roll hasn’t ever been one to veer clear of subjects of psychological condition, and he made the best collaborator. “That song is so him,” Brown says. “He didn’t think that I was going to release it, so he was trying to keep it for himself. So that told me that the song meant even more to him than what I thought it was going to mean.”
Remarkable to Brown, deny unsureness, are two unutilized duets together with his spouse Katelyn, following the luck in their 2023’s unmarried “Thank God.”
“Our music is about telling our story,” she informed The Related Press.
There’s the R&B-pop of “Body Talk,” and a traditionalist’s nation track in “Do Us Apart” — pulling from a long tradition of country music greats performing with their partners. The latter should come as no surprise. “Our favorite duet to sing together is Randy Travis and Carrie Underwood’s “I Told You So,” so we’ve all the time sought after to have that form of tune,” he says.
And nation songs, he’s were given a accumulation of them: the jukebox “Fiddle in the Band,” the slow-burn “Backseat Driver,” the barstool swaying of “Says I Can.”
Or the nearer, “’When You Forget,’ a song that I wrote about my granddad with Alzheimer’s. To me, that’s ‘90s country song storytelling,” he says. “That’s keep the tradition there — and then I go far left with some other songs.”
On “The High Road,” Brown believes every observe tells a tale — and he appears to be like ahead to sharing them, each during the file and on a North American excursion later spring.
“I just hope people can find a piece of themselves in each song,” he says. “Or… at least one song.”
1. “I Am”
2. “Fiddle In the Band”
3. “Backseat Driver”
4. “Miles On It” (that includes Marshmello)
5. “Says I Can”
6. “3”
7. “Rescue” (that includes Khalid)
8. “Haunted” (that includes Jelly Roll)
9. “Start A Fire”
10. “Body Talk” (that includes Katelyn Brown)
11. “Gorgeous”
12. “Beside Me”
13. “I Can Feel It”
14. “Things We Quit” (that includes Brad Paisley)
15. “Back Around”
16. “Stay”
17. “Do Us Apart” (that includes Katelyn Brown)
18. “When You Forget”