COREY KENT ON HOW HE FOUND “WILD AS HER” AND WHY HE DECIDED TO RECORD IT (AUDIO)
“Yeah, so I found that song a close friend of mine wrote this. This is a song written by Brett Tyler. And then obviously there’s two other prolific writers on this song Kelly Archer and Morgan Wallen, and I found this through my team, really, I was just kind of at the beginning of assembling my team of management and I had a publisher and this was a song that my publishers I think used to own and they sold the catalog, but they were aware of the song because of it. And then obviously, my friend Brett, they kind of all made me aware of it and just felt like you know that it would fit my brand and they’d seen the live show and if you come see our live show, it’s very energetic. It’s kind of this throwback rock and roll Americana spirit show. Think Bruce Springsteen, it’s very all American rock and roll country. And they just felt like this song would be a perfect fit for the record. And yeah, I mean, I take a lot of pride in writing songs. And that’s what I mean, I moved to Nashville at 17 and started writing and I ended up writing. I’ve written number ones in Texas for some of my friends. And I take great pride in that. But also, some of my heroes, the Dean Dillon’s and George Straits, and I mean, those guys, the healthiest writing community is when the best song wins, regardless of who wrote it. And as a writer, I always kind of got a little frustrated that I felt like my songs weren’t getting the time of day, because the artists weren’t in the room with me. And they got to write everything. And I made a pact when I was a staff songwriter, that if I ever got the chance to really be a full blown artist, that I was going to make sure that I was different in that way. And that real great songwriters, their songs would get a shot on my record. And that doesn’t mean they’ll make the record. But if they’re better than one I wrote, it’s going on the record. And so that was the case with this song. It was a great song it deserved to see the light of day I wish I would have wrote it, but I didn’t. And here we are, and it’s I’m glad that we recorded it and you know what’s even cooler than winning and having a hit is winning and having a hit with friends.”
Corey Kent’s debut album Blacktop drops on June 2nd, 2023
Oklahoma native/Texas based rising country singer/songwriter Corey Kent announces his third album BLACKTOP is set to be released on June 2nd via RCA Nashville/Sony Music Nashville (pre-order here). In celebration of the announcement, Kent also releases his new track “Something’s Gonna Kill Me” today (listen here).
“‘Something’s Gonna Kill Me’ is a song I wrote about taking risks,” says Kent. “Some of my favorite things in life could kill me, but they’re also the things that make me feel most alive. I love a Sunday afternoon motorcycle ride, I love smoking a cigar on my back porch with a good friend. This song is a realization that life is short, and you gotta takes some risks to make the most of it.”
The 10-track album features writing credits from Kent himself as well as Morgan Wallen, Ryan Hurd, Kelly Archer, Lydia Vaughan and more (full writers listed below) with production from Jay Joyce and Chris Farren. The album features already released tracks, “Man of the House,” “How You Know You Made It,” “Hood of that Car” and Kent’s platinum RIAA certified single “Wild As Her.”
The free-spirited and high-energy track has garnered over 250 million on-demand streams, landed Kent his first-ever entry onto the Billboard Hot 100, reached #15 on the Hot Country Songs Chart and is currently Top 5 at country radio. Watch the “Wild As Her” music video here. The video landed Kent a nomination for Breakthrough Male Video of the Year at the 2023 CMT Awards.
On the touring front, Kent kicked off 2023 joining Parker McCollum, is confirmed to play Stagecoach (4/29 – T-Mobile Mainstage), Tortuga Music Festival (4/15 – Sunset Stage), headline his own show in Nashville (6/2 – Brooklyn Bowl), play CMA Fest (6/8 – Chevy Riverfront Stage) and tour all summer on Jason Aldean’s Highway Desperado Tour. For more information on the tour please visit: https://www.coreykentofficial.com/#tour.
Kent was named as a CMT Listen Up Artist for 2023, a Pandora Artist to Watch The Opry Next Stage Class of 2023, Sirius XM Class of 2022 and was nominated for an AIMP Nashville Country Awards for AIMP Rising Artist-Writer of the Year.
BLACKTOP Track List
1. Wild as Her (Kelly Archer/Brett Tyler/Morgan Wallen)
2. Long Story Short (Corey Kent/Lydia Vaughan)
3. Something’s Gonna Kill Me (Corey Kent/Austin Goodloe/Joybeth Taylor/Lydia Vaughan)
4. Man of the House (Corey Kent/Austin Goodloe/Joybeth Taylor/Lydia Vaughan)
5. Gone as You (Casey Brown/Matthew McGinn/Travis Wood)
6. BiC Flame (Corey Kent/Jack Hummel/Jon Sherwood)
7. Call It a Night (Aaron Eshuis/Ryan Hurd)
8. How You Know You Made It (Corey Kent/AJ Pruis/Smith Ahnquist)
9. Hood of That Car (Corey Kent/Blake Chaffin/Jack Hummel/Jacob Lutz)
10. Once or Twice (Corey Kent/Lee Miller)
Tracks 1 & 9 Produced by Chris Farren
Tracks 2-8 & 10 Produced by Jay Joyce