MacKenzie Porter’s ‘Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart’ Slated For April

Country singer-songwriter MacKenzie Porter will release her Big Loud Records debut album six years in the making, Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart, on April 26.

Porter previews the 19-track album with four new songs out today, including “Easy To Miss,” “Pay Me Back In Change,” “Young At Heart” and the album’s title track. She queues up the album with her first few takes on life’s many inevitable heartbreaks, including the uptempo “Easy To Miss,” where Porter grapples with the uphill battle of getting over a breakup. Written by Hillary Lindsey, Emily Warren and Will Weatherly, the song is paired with a new video, out everywhere today.

“Nobody’s born with a broken heart,” shares Porter. “We all start with the naivety and innocence of youth, but then life happens. There are so many circumstances and events in a lifetime that can slowly chip away at your heart, and in the end you’re this beautiful, imperfect, cracked, mess. But isn’t that what living really is? If you didn’t have the grit, would you really know the grace? This is what this record is about. These songs are those moments in my life.”

On the album’s biographical title track, Porter turns her storytelling inward. Throughout the breezy number, she details her journey from innocence to being gradually wrecked by the weight of the world—and becoming the better for it. Co-writing the ballad with Luke Niccoli, Lydia Vaughan and Parker Welling, the intimate lyrics acknowledge life’s equilibrium with pain and joy.

On “Pay Me Back In Change,” Porter aches for the debts she’s owed to be payed back in change, instead of apologies and empty promises. And on the Tofer Brown, Lauren Hungate and Emily Weisband-penned “Young At Heart” Porter yearns for the bright-eyed, ambitious person she was before she became worn down by life’s many challenges.

The new album arrives on the heels of global success for Porter, notching six No. 1s across the U.S., Canada and Australia, earning 873 million global on-demand streams and headlining her first tour.

Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart Tracklist:
1. “Easy To Miss” (Hillary Lindsey, Emily Warren, Will Weatherly)*
2. “Young At Heart” (Tofer Brown, Lauren Hungate, Emily Weisband)
3. “Bet You Break My Heart” (Mark Holman, Chris Tompkins, Travis Wood)
4. “Pay Me Back In Change” (Emma Klein)
5. “Rough Ride For A Cowboy” (MacKenzie Porter, Lauren Hungate, Luke Niccoli, Lydia Vaughan)
6. “Coming Home To You” (Tofer Brown, Lauren Hungate, Caroline Watkins, Emily Weisband)
7. “Strong Things” (MacKenzie Porter, John Byron, Jacob Durrett, Lauren LaRue)
8. “Confession” (MacKenzie Porter, Emma-Lee, Karen Kosowski)
9. “Wrong One Yet” (Blake Pendergrass, Josh Thompson, Lauren Watkins)
10. “Pickup” (MacKenzie Porter, Will Bundy, Lydia Vaughan)
11. “Nightingale” (MacKenzie Porter, Mark Trussell, Parker Welling)
12. “Have Your Beer” (MacKenzie Porter, Jason Massey, Lydia Vaughan, Parker Welling)
13. “Sucker Punch” (MacKenzie Porter, Tommy English, Nick Long)
14. “Walk Away” (MacKenzie Porter, Chris DeStefano, Jon Nite)
15. “Foreclosure” (Jared Hampton, Harper O’Neill, Vinnie Paolizzi, Ash Ruder)
16. “Less Is More” (Devin Dawson, Zachary Kale, Jon Nite)
17. “Along Those Lines” (Rocky Block, Blake Pendergrass)
18. “Chasing Tornadoes” (Emily Landis, Jamie Moore, Lainey Wilson)
19. “Nobody’s Born With A Broken Heart” (MacKenzie Porter, Luke Niccoli, Lydia Vaughan, Parker Welling)

All songs produced by Joey Moi
*Co-produced by Jacob Durrett and David Garcia