About A Woman

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Seven albums into his career, Thomas Rhett is in a comfortable place. The country superstar has more No. 1 hits than he can count on two hand, and also found happiness offstage with his wife and children, who serve as a primary inspiration for this follow-up to 2022’s <i>Where We Started</i>. Comfort doesn’t mean complacency, though, and on <i>About a Woman</i> Rhett digs more deeply into his personal experience, sharing intimate stories about marriage, parenthood, and nostalgia for one’s youth. “What Could Go Right” is a tender portrait of friendship growing into love, inspired by Rhett’s own marriage. “Church” taps into Rhett’s longtime love of fellow singer-songwriter Eric Church, connecting the Chief’s music to youthful romance. “Somethin’ ’Bout a Woman” is a slinky groove with twangy flourishe, reminiscent of earlier Rhett tracks like “It Goes Like This” and “Craving You.” Rhett caps the record with “I Could Spend Forever Loving You,” a spare and sincere love song that’s sure to show up on wedding playlist. Below, he talks through a few of the album’s key track. <b>“Overdrive”</b> “A song like ‘Overdrive’ would be directly centered towards high school kids—and then people that even, maybe, were high school sweethearts or got back together later in life—to go to reminisce on how innocent that time wa. And how just because you’re kind of young, dumb, and reckless at 16 doesn’t mean that you can’t also still be there when you’re 35 or 55.” <b>“Gone Country”</b> “I wish I could say that I had this crazy story of dating this girl that flew in from Chicago and all these thing, but I don’t have that story. For me, that song came about, and I’ve shared this story a couple of time, but just being at [Nashville’s] BNA [airport] and realizing how massive our genre has become. For me, it’s always been massive because it’s what I’ve done for a living and what I’ve been so inundated with. Even people that did not grow up country, they’re just like, ‘I really like this way of living.’ You know what I mean? And that’s sort of where the inspiration from that song came from.” <b>“Church”</b> “The first two Eric Church records—I remember getting my first truck at 16, and Eric Church then was [like] listening to Zach Bryan now. It was kind of underground. He was the outlaw. He would sing about words that you couldn’t say on mainstream radio, all this stuff. So, me and all my buddie, that was our favorite. So, the original way this song got pitched to me wa, it ended in heartbreak, like the guy and the girl never saw each other again, but he always reminisced over that time that they bonded over Eric Church. And so, I came in on the back half and just rewrote the bridge and the last choru, because [my story with my wife] ended differently.” <b>“What Could Go Right”</b> “I’ve tried to write that song a million different time, and it has always come out extremely corny and extremely cheesy. And a couple of the guys in the group are dating. One’s married and has kids and all this kind of stuff. And I was telling them about this night that I had with [my wife] Lauren when I was like 21 years old. [We] both were in long relationships with other people, and both kind of ended our relationship with other people at the same time. But there was alway, in the back of my mind, this wonder of like, ‘I wonder if we could ever date again.’ You know what I mean? Because we dated a little bit in high school. That whole song, I was telling the guys on the bus this story, and my buddy John is just writing, taking note, soaking it all in. And I went to go get some food, and I came back, and they had written the verse and the choru, and they were like, ‘Does this do it for you?’ And I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. It’s amazing.’” <b>“I Could Spend Forever Loving You”</b> .

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