Chase Rice releases ‘Way Down Yonder’

Song & video available now

As teased earlier this week by multi-Platinum singer/songwriter Chase Rice, his outlaw anthem “Way Down Yonder” is available digitally along with an accompanying Wild West-style music video. The release showcases a rugged new sound previewing Rice’s next musical era, which will be on full display via a forthcoming album.

“When we wrote this song, I had the mountains of North Carolina where I grew up in mind. All the moonshining history there in the Appalachians,” recalls Rice. “Then all of a sudden during the recording process, Rob McNelley started playing this crazy carnival sound on the acoustic… and it got Western quick. That turned it from a song I didn’t think was even going to make the cut for this next album into one of my favorite songs on the project.”

Rice will celebrate the release with an appearance on SiriusXM The Highway’s Music Row Happy Hour this afternoon before heading to Bridgestone Arena to kick off the night’s Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour stop. Fans can also stop by the Bridgestone Plaza all day for a special “Way Down Yonder” time period photo experience – with the chance that Rice himself will make an appearance at the activation during their photoshoot.

The photo experience embodies the Western influence of the song’s official music video, which was shot in a single take as a time period piece at Fort Worth’s Stockyards National Historic District as showcased exclusively by Entertainment Tonight.

Written by Rice together with Hunter Phelps, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass and Corey Crowder during a writing retreat in Florida that also produced recent release “Key West & Colorado,” “Way Down Yonder” is the latest preview of his forthcoming album, painting a vivid picture of hardworking characters living beyond the confines of the law.

The song was recorded along with the rest of the forthcoming project during a two-week period at Rice’s farm outside Nashville, with producer Oscar Charles and a live band using makeshift recording environment to capture a pure, raw style unlike any of his previous studio projects.

The shift in setting suited the set of more vulnerable, personal music.

Buddy Iahn
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