New song is available now
Big Loud Records’ soulful troubadour Larry Fleet leans reflective on all-new tree stand anthem, “Young Buck,” available now via Big Loud Records. A lesson laden mid-tempo teaching through the lens of a life’s worth of father-son hunting trips, the outskirts stomper moves in parallel with time itself, taking snapshots of pivotal moments with Fleet’s father asking him to look deep and stay present as the pace picks up.
“He said son won’t ya slow it on down / Ya might not see it right now / But bein’ out here ain’t all about the years’ worth of deer that you hung up / The seasons get to goin’ too fast / So try to be where your boots are at / Just take it from me, you think you are, but you ain’t always gonna be / This young buck.”
“I’ve been escaping into the great outdoors since I was waist-high, going out in the woods and learning what this life is about from my dad and my granddad,” Fleet remembers. “They taught me about the importance of family, good friends, about how to appreciate quality time spent with the people you love, finding gratitude for the little things. Now that I’ve got my own babies growing up faster than weeds, I can see the whole picture of what they were instilling in me. When I heard the demo for ‘Young Buck,’ I felt so connected to the story – it was mine to tell long before we ever got in the studio to cut it.”
The song was written by Andy Albert, John Byron, Devin Dawson, and Jacob Durrett and produced by Joey Moi.
“Young Buck” follows February’s double dose of new music with the release of “Daddy Don’t Drink” and “Try Texas,” further previewing a larger body of work set for release later this year.
On deck, Fleet keeps it moving down the road, mixing a direct support run with Parker McCollum with more of his raved-about headline Larry Fleet Live tour dates, and opening for Jon Pardi at Morrison, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre this August.
Next week, he returns to Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry stage, stepping into the Circle for the first time since his September 2021 standing ovation-earning debut.
