The country crooner releases latest song from forthcoming 18-track sophomore album
Randall King’s 18-track sophomore album Into The Neon takes listeners inside one man’s story of finding love and losing it, with songs made for slow dancing under the starry night sky or two-stepping at a local honky tonk. With the latest taste of new music off the upcoming project, “Coulda Been Love,” available now, King grapples with regret over the girl that got away and love that could have been.
“Heartbreak and honk-tonk. Turn up the dial and pour ya a drink, you’re gonna need one,” remarks King. Written by Jake Worthington, Kim Penz and Roger Springer, “Coulda Been Love” is an up-tempo toe-tapper, as the narrator retrospectively ponders his decision to turn down a dance with a girl and realizes perhaps it could have led to more.
“What was I thinkin’ sayin’ I don’t dance girl / Let her walk away and it coulda been love / Bet you right now she’d be lightin’ up my world / What was I thinkin’ it coulda been love.”
Co-produced by King alongside Jared Conrad, Into The Neon incorporates a unique blend of the influences from icons and modern masters alike who have inspired King’s sound, inclusive of the timeless ‘80s country twang of George Strait and Keith Whitley, and the blood pumping, Y2K-era rhythms of Dierks Bentley and Gary Allan.
Inspired by the countless nights spent strumming his guitar under the expansive skies in the plains of West Texas where he grew up – and by his current road warrior diet which finds him revitalizing country music’s neo-traditional sound under the neon signs of nearly 150 honky tonks he performs in across the country each year – King ushers people Into The Neon on January 26th via Warner Music Nashville.
It’s a place where rowdy roughnecking, romantic tenderness, and breathtaking emotion are all welcome. An ode to nature and the humble establishments that have nurtured country music’s blue-collar roots since its foundation. It’s these very places that have nurtured King’s love for music and wide open spaces, too.
