DREW GREEN DROPS DIRT BOY – VOL. 2 EP AND MUSIC VIDEO OF TITLE TRACK (Audio & Video)
Here are the Audio and Video Work Parts to support the release of Drew Green’s Dirt Boy Vol 2 EP. Thank you for your support!
“The Dirt Boy EPs in general was a, you know, a beginning vision for me as an artist at Sony and I really wanted to have my story as a part of what I’m what I’m singing about on stage every day you know what I can what I can sing every day and be proud of. And I’m really happy that Dirt Boy got to be the title track to my EP. Any guy like me that grew up on a farm was known as a Dirt Boy. It’s just one of those slang slang terms of a person’s nickname growing up and felt like that was the my first vision as an artist to put that as my title track. And my my first EP, and I can’t wait for everybody to hear Dirt Boy Vol. 2.”
Get Up & Get It Work Parts
“So I kind of wanted a hype track for Dirt Boy Vol. 2 and Get Up and Get It was a song I wrote with a couple of my best friends. And I had the idea to get it that day and we really didn’t have much behind it. It was one of those days where you kind of didn’t bring I didn’t bring in much. But one of my co writers was singing this melody, top of the song and it felt right and we rolled right through it. And just wanted to tell a story of you know, getting up have a normal farm guy getting up and working his ass off. So I just wanted a song that was you know, the everyday life of a dirt boy and Get Up and Get It felt right. And it felt like the first track of Dirt Boy Vol. 2.“
Cold Beer & Copenhagen Work Parts
“Cold Beer and Copenhagen was my favorite song that I wrote through the quarantine. I was with a couple buddies on my houseboat and we’d wrote seven songs that day. And it was just one of those like we sat down and we just wrote songs all day and we’re about to go to bed at 2am we’d been drinking and I throw out that idea and I throw out the the hook and what it was really about, and it fired us up and we watched the sunrise and we wrote that song and it was my favorite song we wrote that day. And I knew the minute we finished the song that it was gonna be on Dirt Boy Vol. 2.“
Dirt Boy Work Parts
“So I had the idea of Dirt Boy on my phone for as long as I can remember, it was one first ideas I’ve had. And I just had that vision of it being my first album, title as long as nobody did it. And luckily, six years went by and nobody, nobody did it. But I said, I sat down probably about a month before I signed my record deal. And I had a really big write that day. And I was pretty nervous. So I came in with like, six song ideas and like, really worked my butt off on it, and they didn’t like anything I did. And we started talking about growing up working. And I pitched that idea and they loved it. And we wrote that song in about 30 minutes. And it was super quick. And the next week I played it for Sony. And that’s how I got my first record deal. You know I kind of felt that as soon as we finished our boy that day that it was going to be the beginning to my my career at Sony. And it means a lot to me. I grew up in a small farm town and all my best friends were called dirt boys because they grew up on farms. And it kind of speaks to my town speak to my buddies. And it’s really just a song about me. I didn’t think anyone would, you know, relate to it as much as they as they are. And we’re out on the road right now and everybody’s relating to it.“
Hooch Work Parts
“Hooch is a wild track. I got this idea in Jacksonville, Florida. I was actually playing a show and some of these guys had some moon shine and I tried it and it wasn’t really to my taste in the moonshine I guess because I grew up in a holler. So I’ve had some pretty stout stuff. And I just got the idea of maybe talking about a little bit. I haven’t heard a moonshot song in a while. So I just thought, you know, all these I was telling them all these nicknames of what I heard of it in my neck of the woods, and they didn’t really know what I was talking about, but I just kind of wrote it all down. And one day I sat down, wrote, wrote a song, and it came together and it’s actually what my probably my favorite song on the EP.“
John Deere Blue Work Parts
“So John Deere Blue is the one song that I didn’t write on the EP. So I was in a write one day with with a girl and she had some songs that I had heard from some other co writers that I write with a lot. And I saw that title John Deere Blue and I was like, You got to play this one for me. Because that’s how it just stood out to me and I had to know what it was about and I knew that if they did what I thought they did about it, that it was gonna be a really good song. And soon as I heard it, I was like, I’ve got to cut this song and that was my first song I’ve cut as an artist. And John Deere Blue is definitely one of my favorites off Dirt Boy Vol. 2.“
Villa 40/RCA Nashville singer/songwriter Drew Green released DIRT BOY Vol. 2 today. Including the previously released “Cold Beer and Copenhagen” and “Hooch” and three additional tracks, Green’s new EP is the final leg of a two-EP musical journey he began over a year when he dropped DIRT BOY Vol. 1. Directed by Jimmy Naples and produced by Revolution Pictures, the music video of the title track was also released today. Listen to the EP HERE and watch the “Dirt Boy” video HERE.
DIRT BOY Vol. 2 Track List
Producer: Mark Trussell
1 – “Get Up and Get It” (Drew Green, Nick Columbia and Jonathan Ross)
2 – “Cold Beer and Copenhagen” (Drew Green, Smith Ahnquist and Brent Anderson)
3 – “Dirt Boy” (Drew Green, Lynn Hutton and Kelley Lovelace)
4 – “Hooch” (Drew Green, Jordan Minton and Mark Trussell)
5 – “John Deere Blue” (Smith Ahnquist, Jeffrey Joseph East and Jake Mitchell)
Written by Drew Green, Lynn Hutton and Kelley Lovelace, “Dirt Boy” is an anthemic ode to Green’s small-town upbringing. The song’s autobiographical lyrics give fans a look into his background, from learning to drive on his dad’s John Deere at seven years old, to marrying the girl of his dreams who grew up only three miles down the road. As the singer declares himself, “If you want a definition of Drew Green, that’s it.” And, “Dirt Boy” is a perfect sonic representation of Green the artist, with banjo-tinged production, an infectious hook, and a rolling melody.
The rest of the DIRT BOY Vol. 2 EP follows suit. “Hooch” is a rowdy party-starting tribute to moonshine, “John Deere Blue” puts a farm-boy twist on a heartbreak tale, and “Get Up and Get It” incorporates Drew’s passion for both hip-hop and country. Even the lone ballad on the project, “Cold Beer and Copenhagen” – Drew’s favorite song he’s written so far – has similar crowd-pleasing elements. This slower song was a revelatory change of pace for the singer-songwriter, who admits that prior to signing his record deal, writing serious songs was a challenge.
Since October, Drew Green has been the opening act for Mitchell Tenpenny’s To Us It Did Tour. Future dates follow.
MITCHELL TENPENNY TO US IT DID TOUR with opening act DREW GREEN
December 10 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave/Eagles Club
December 11 – Chicago, IL – Joe’s on Weed St.
December 15 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
December 16 – Sayerville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
December 17 – Columbus, OH – ExpresssLive! Indoor Pavillion
December 18 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
About Drew Green McMinnville, Tennessee native Drew Green set the tone for his roots narrative when he dropped DIRT BOY Vol. 1 in Sept. 2020. This seven-song collection, released via Villa 40/Sony Music Nashville, featured the streaming successes “She Got That” and “Little More Be Alright.” Unlike many of his country peers, Drew didn’t immediately make music a priority upon going to college. Instead, he pursued a degree in finance, landing a promising job at a local bank upon graduating. But his desire to make it big in Nashville was always in the back of his mind, particularly because he’d already felt a taste of it as a performer at Nashville’s famed hotspot Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. When an opportunity for a promotion came up at the bank, Drew was inspired to turn it down and give music one more shot. He is the first to admit that it wasn’t an overnight success story from there. But in late 2018, his decision paid off, as Florida Georgia Line put a hold on his song “Colorado,” and they released it on their Can’t Say I Ain’t Country album the next year. Later in 2019, Drew Green landed his first music publishing deal with Warner Chappell Nashville and Grammy winner Brett James’ company, Cornman Music. Subsequently, Drew brought on James as his manager and credits him with helping to score Green his record deal with Villa 40/Sony Music Nashville last year. For further information, visit www.drewgreen.com.
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