Cole Swindell Readies Fifth Studio Album, ‘Spanish Moss’

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Cole Swindell. Photo: Robby Klein

Multi-Platinum hitmaker and ACM Award winner Cole Swindell will release his fifth studio album, Spanish Moss, on June 27 via Warner Music Nashville.

The project follows his 2022 release Stereotype, which delivered a trio of Platinum-certified, multi-week No. 1s: “Single Saturday Night,” “Never Say Never” (with Lainey Wilson) and the five-week, three-times Platinum smash “She Had Me At Heads Carolina.” That track alone earned Swindell three ACM Awards, including Single and Song of the Year, plus an iHeartRadio Music Award for Country Song of the Year and a CMA nomination. He followed it up with Stereotype Broken, a deluxe edition featuring his 2023 top 10 hit “Drinkaby.”

Spanish Moss features Swindell’s current top 10-and-climbing single “Forever To Me,” written alongside Greylan James and Rocky Block as a tribute to his engagement and marriage to wife Courtney. The album’s title track—co-written with Devin Dawson, Jordan Minton and Jordan Reynolds—drops Friday (March 28).

“Spanish Moss has been a work in progress for over two years now,” Swindell shares. “I knew it would be a tough task following up Stereotype and the success we had from that album, but sometimes a challenge can be motivating and exactly what’s needed to grow. For me, the album making process has always had a common theme … best song wins. Although it’s never that simple.

“Life has changed a lot for me in the best way since the last project and I wanted to be able write and sing about those blessings while also not forgetting where I came from and the pain from the past,” he adds. “One of the beautiful things about music is even though you may not be currently going through something at this very moment, more than likely someone out there IS. I think this album is balanced that way and has a little bit of everything from songs like: ‘Kill A Prayer,’ ‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘Forever to Me’ to ‘Dale Jr.,’ ‘Country Boy Can’t Survive,’ and ‘Heads Up Heaven.’”

After headlining his “Win The Night Tour” last year, Swindell will embark on his first international tour dates in March opening for Cody Johnson’s “Leather Deluxe Tour” in Australia and New Zealand.

Spanish Moss Track List:
1. “Kill A Prayer” (Cole Taylor, Josh Thompson, Jesse Frasure)
2. “Dirty Dancing” (Beau Bailey, Ned Cameron, Hunter Phelps)
3. “Dale, Jr.” (Cole Swindell, Greylan James, Matt Alderman)
4. “Spanish Moss” (Cole Swindell, Devin Dawson, Jordan Minton, Jordan Reynolds)
5. “We Can Always Move On” (Kyle Fishman, Thomas Archer, Michael Tyler)
6. “Georgia (Ain’t On Her Mind)” (Cole Swindell, John Byron, Ben Johnson)
7. “Lost Heart” (Rodney Clawson, Zach Kale, Tawgs Salter, Nolen Sipe)
8. “Bottom Of It” (Cole Swindell, Jonathon Singleton, Chase McGill, Ben Simonetti)
9. “Left To Get Right” (Greylan James, Thomas Archer, Rocky Block)
10. “Longneck List” (Lindsay Rimes, Jameson Rodgers, Matt Rogers)
11. “Country Boy Can’t Survive” (Cole Swindell, Josh Osborne, Travis Wood, Jared Keim)
12. “Happy Hour Sad” (Jimmy Robbins, Micah Carpenter, Travis Wood, Lydia Vaughan)
13. “Wild” (Cole Swindell, Matt Dragstrem, Matt Rogers, Jordan Minton)
14. “One Day” (Chase McGill, Ernest K. Smith, Jordan Schmidt)
15. “Forever To Me” (Cole Swindell, Greylan James, Rocky Block)
16. “Someone Worth Missing” (Ben Stennis, Michael Tyler, Brad Rempel)
17. “First Second” (Greylan James, Josh Osborne, David Garcia, Rocky Block)
18. “’99 Problems” (Devin Dawson, Seth Ennis, Jordan Minton, Jordan Reynolds)
19. “It Don’t Hurt Anymore” (Blake Bollinger, Trea Landon, Craig Campbell)
20. “Take Me Down” (Cole Swindell, Jessie Jo Dillon, Chris Tompkins, David Garcia)
21. “Heads Up Heaven” (Cole Swindell, Chase McGill, Bobby Pinson)

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