Phillip Lammonds To Ride Into Spring With ‘Cowboy Things’ Collection
Singer-songwriter Phillip Lammonds is releasing a new album, Cowboy Things, on April 5. The title track is available now.
“Cowboy Things” was “pure, divine intervention,” according to Lammonds, and was inspired by his young son dressing up as a cowboy for Halloween. Tucking his wannabe-roper in that night—still dressed in his chaps made out of a fuzzy toilet seat cover from Walmart—Lammonds was inspired as soon as he heard his sleepy boy say, “Dad, the coolest things are cowboy things.”
The Lee Brice-produced project features heartfelt, plainspoken tracks from across Lammonds’ career. He boils the big picture down to bite-sized chunks of truth with help from buddies including Brice, Darius Rucker, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and actor Bill Murray.
“This album is everything I can’t write for radio,” Lammonds admits with a laugh. “It feels like it [was recorded] in your den. I didn’t know that’s what we were doing, and I didn’t know that’s what would happen. But when it did happen, I guess I’d have to admit that I love it.”
Inspired by Randy Newman, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bill Monroe, he began his career with a homespun Americana roots outfit called the Blue Dogs. During the ’90s, Lammonds traveled from South Carolina to Nashville for regular writing sessions. He eventually began scoring cuts with artists such as Kip Moore and Josh Turner and bluegrass acts like The Infamous Stringdusters and Steep Canyon Rangers.
Cowboy Things Track Listing:
“Love Is Love (feat. Darius Rucker)”
“Coffee Black”
“Supposed To Fall In Love”
“I’d Give Anything”
“Forever Ain’t That Far Away”
“What I’d Pay To Do”
“Train Of Sweet Tomorrow”
“Cowboy Things”
“Light At The End Of The Tunnel”
“Hell’s Kitchen”
“Salt”
