Chase Rice Drops Surprise ‘Fireside Sessions’ Project

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Fireside Sessions cover art brings together I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go To Hell and Go Down Singin’ cover images, uniting Rice with his late father.

Chase Rice has released a surprise Fireside Sessions collection featuring all 25 songs from his albums I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go To Hell and Go Down Singin’, as live, single-take versions.

Rice announced the new project during his debut performance at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Cafe’. The new live combo album highlights Rice’s co-writers including Lori McKenna, Jackson Dean, Hunter Phelps, Randy Montana and more as featured artists.

“The cool part about tonight, and why we put this together, is because the I Hate Cowboys record and the Go Down Singin’ record were the start of a whole new part of my life and my career. It was no longer chasing whatever was popular; it was finally just writing songs that I cared about, writing them on guitar—which is how I started writing songs—and then Oscar Charles producing the last two albums together. We wanted to finalize all that by coming together tonight,” Rice shared while unveiling the surprise project during the special writers’ round featuring Charles plus fellow collaborators Blake Pendergrass, John Byron and Jonathan Sherwood.

“We’re going to drop the Fireside Sessions album tonight which is featuring all these songwriters, and songwriters on both albums, and it’s going to be all of us just playing guitar like you’re seeing tonight, and that’s going to be the finalization of this chapter.”

The Fireside Sessions album art brings together the cover images from each of the preceding albums, uniting Rice and his late father as grown men for the first time, and bringing to life the lyric from album closer “You In ‘85” which Rice describes as the overarching theme of this multi-album musical chapter: “So if I could have one thing it’d be us man to man / A couple Coors Banquets in hand.”

Fireside Sessions Track List:
1. “Walk That Easy” (feat. William Reames, Barton Davies, Jonathan Sherwood, Oscar Charles)
2. “All Dogs Go To Hell” (feat. John Byron)
3. “Way Down Yonder” (feat. Hunter Phelps, John Byron, Blake Pendergrass)
4. “Key West & Colorado” (feat. Blake Pendergrass, John Byron, Hunter Phelps)
5. “Bench Seat”
6. “Life Part of Livin’”
7. “Bad Day To Be A Cold Beer” (feat. Blake Pendergrass, John Byron)
8. “Oklahoma” (feat. William Reames, Barton Davies, Jonathan Sherwood, Oscar Charles)
9. “I Walk Alone” (feat. Jaxson Free)
10. “Sorry Momma” (feat. Hunter Phelps)
11. “If I Were Rock & Roll”
12. “Goodnight Nancy” (feat. Oscar Charles, Barton Davies, William Reames, Jonathan Sherwood)
13. “I Hate Cowboys”
14. “For A Day” (feat. John Byron, Blake Pendergrass, Hunter Phelps)
15. “Go Down Singin’” (feat. Blake Pendergrass)
16. “Fireside” (feat. Jonathan Sherwood, Jackson Dean, Oscar Charles)
17. “That Word Don’t Work No More” (feat. Lori McKenna)
18. “Hey God It’s Me Again” (feat. Corey Crowder, Randy Montana)
19. “Oh Tennessee” (feat. Oscar Charles, Lori McKenna)
20. “Haw River” (feat. Blake Pendergrass)
21. “Arkansas” (feat. Rob Baird)
22. “Numbers” (feat. Ryan Tyndell, Jeff Hyde)
23. “If Drinkin’ Helped” (feat. Oscar Charles, Lori McKenna)
24. “Little Red Race Car” (feat. Jackson Nance, Heath Warren)
25. “You In ‘85”

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