“I remember being the hottest I’ve been in my life,” he recalled of that 2018 visit. “I was on a motorcycle in Tucson, caught up between red lights. There were two miles of red lights and I hit every red light there was. I had to stop and get water, I was dehydrated.”
People are also reading… The album brings him full-circle to the neo-trad country roots that he introduced back in 2010 with his eponymous Mercury Records debut. In his twangy rich baritone that fans early on compared to George Strait, Corbin leans more heavily into the style that brought him to the dance, rooted in stories about marrying the girl and being from a long line of “Lonesome Drinkers.”
In between the heartbreak songs of losing the girl and trying to replace the girl of your dreams , Corbin has a little fun with the rollicking “Wind You Up” and the blue-collar anthem of “Honky Tonk Land.” This is Corbin’s fourth career album — and the first one where he wrote most of the songs — but it feels as fresh and new as his first.