“What’s Your Country Song”

Thomas Rhett’s brand new single “What’s Your Country Song” will be our next Up Next: World Premier.

The song drops at Midnight tomorrow (11/11) and we’ll start playing it at 6am!

“So I wrote this song in a hotel room in Dallas, Texas. I had a show that night and some songwriter buddies of mine – Ashley Gorley, my dad Rhett Akins, Parker Welling, and Jesse Frasure – all came with me to write that weekend. We were just talking about ideas for songs and I just mentioned an idea of ‘what’s your country’ or ‘where’s your country’ – something like that – and they were asking me where that inspiration came from. I noticed that whether I was in Los Angeles or New York, or Seattle or Nashville, or anywhere in between, I noticed that everybody had some country in them, you know? Whether you live in the city or wherever you live, I think everybody has a little bit of country inside their bones.

I think everybody loves to get outside. I think everybody loves to go hiking and camping. We were just talking about how can we write this song, and we decided to dive in and make the whole song country song lyrics that tie into a story. It was really interesting how we started to progress the song. I actually threw one of my dad’s song titles in the second verse of “That Ain’t My Truck.” So we picked a lot of songs that I felt like really shaped me as an artist and put those in the verses. So hopefully when the listeners are listening they don’t hear the song titles, but that it sounds more like a story. And the more they listen to the song, I hope they can kinda go through and be like, “Oh my gosh, I love that song and I love that song,” but also make their own interpretation of the song and go, “What were my songs that kind of defined my life?

What songs, when I hear them on the radio today as a 30 year old or 40 year old make me feel 17 again?” That’s how that song came together.” -Thomas Rhett