Chase Rice Readies New Independent Album ‘Go Down Singin”
Chase Rice’s Go Down Singin’ cover art. Photo: Evan DeStefano
Chase Rice settles into himself after some introspection on his upcoming new indie release Go Down Singin’ due Sept. 20.
Mirroring the cover art of his I Hate Cowboys album, which features a photo of his late father holding Coors Banquets during the late ‘80s in Wyoming, Rice recreated that picture himself for Go Down Singin’ as he continues to honor the man who served as his childhood hero. Marveling at being a work-in-progress, Rice considers the 11-song album an arrival on the brink of “being the man my father always believed I could be.”
“I’m 38 now, and that’s part of it,” says Rice. “I’ve journaled since I was 15 years old, but there’s something about being able to tell other people. I’m a deep person, but I don’t know to show it in real life, so I’m trying to do it in my music. For me, Go Down Singin’ is everything about where I am and what I want. I’m starting to see myself as who I want to be, not who I thought I should be. That’s a good start. And I think a lot of men struggle with this stuff, too.”
Among the tracks on the album is a collaboration with three-time Grammy winner Lori McKenna. The decorated songwriter came to see Rice play in Boston and recognized the wounding and promise inside him.
“I wanted to bring her a song I had started that was the story of moving to Nashville, getting anything you wanted and losing it all,” Rice recalls of “Oh Tennessee,” another one of their four co-writes on the album. “I knew she would understand, and from there, well, we had so much to say.”
Go Down Singin’ Track List:
1. “Go Down Singin’” (Chase Rice, Blake Pendergrass)
2. “Fireside” (Chase Rice, Jackson Dean, Jonathan Sherwood, Oscar Charles)
3. “That Word Don’t Work No More” feat. Lori McKenna (Chase Rice, Lori McKenna, Oscar Charles)
4. “Hey God It’s Me Again” (Chase Rice, Corey Crowder, Randy Montana)
5. “Oh Tennessee” (Chase Rice, Lori McKenna, Oscar Charles)
6. “Haw River” (Chase Rice, Blake Pendergrass)
7. “Arkansas” (Chase Rice, Rob Baird)
8. “Numbers” (Chase Rice, Jeff Hyde, Ryan Tyndell)
9. “If Drinkin’ Helped” (Chase Rice, Lori McKenna, Oscar Charles)
10. “Little Red Race Car” (Chase Rice, Jackson Nance, Heath Warren)
11. “You In ’85” (Chase Rice, Lori McKenna, Oscar Charles)
