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Walker Hayes continues to deliver new music with “Drinking Songs” via Monument Records. The song is the latest single from his forthcoming, highly-anticipated Country Stuff The Album, due January 21st.
Joining prior releases including his current single “AA,” “U Gurl” and his first No. 1 song “Fancy Like,” “Drinking Songs” features Hayes’ signature witty lyrics, sticky melodies and autobiographical storylines. Written by Hayes along with Jordan Gray and produced by “Fancy Like” collaborator Joe Thibodeau and Multi-GRAMMY Award winner Shane McAnally, the new track finds Hayes paradoxically declaring his love of drinking songs while proudly six years sober – he may have quit drinking, yet he can’t quite surrender country music’s longstanding devotion to songs about them.
“‘Drinking Songs’ is one of my favorites off the new album,” shares Hayes. “I don’t drink anymore but I still connect with how a song can get you through, just like a drink can for some people. We’ve all been in a bar full of people singing together, arms around each other. Plus, the lyrics and the beat just have a relatable quality to them that feels so country to me.”
With a tribute to the traditions the great Hank Williams Jr. has long sang about, “Drinking Songs” calls to Bocephus for guidance.
Hayes will kick off his headlining tour, The Fancy Like Tour, in Grand Rapids, MI on January 27th.
Hayes has a busy 2022 ahead as he writes his forthcoming book, Glad You’re Here. Hayes is writing the book with longtime friend and collaborator Craig Cooper, in which the title was inspired from his song “Craig.”
Music Mayhem reports that the book will be published through the nonprofit organization, Moody Publishing, which publishes Christian books. The book will explore the dear friendship between Hayes and Cooper, much like the track, but fans will now get more of a backstory from the first time they met to when they become neighbors.
Hayes will also share details surrounding his spirituality, previous battle with alcoholism, and the difficulties he and his wife have faced in recent years, including losing their seventh child.
No release date has been set.
