Thanks for joining us for the Thomas
Rhett "Life Changes" album release special
On Big Machine Radio
We are playing all the songs
off the album for you, and
I gotta be honest, there are some song on
here
that maybe some people might think
"Oh, you know, that was a curve ball or
The sound of that,
maybe," this one actually kinda caught me by surprise
Because it's perhaps one of
the more country sounding songs
On here, in terms of fiddle
and throwback
It reminded me of kinda Alabama
throwback
"Drink A Little Beer",
which features your dad on there
And he also had a hand in writing that, so
I mean talk to me about
this song and the fact that
In some ways, I mean it's al most
like blending his 90s career
With where you are today
Yeah, I think it's hilarious that
I think it kinda proves that we've curved
out enough of a lane in this genre
For that to be the weirdest song
on the record
(It kinda shocked
me) I think like
That's such a funny,
and I think that's why I cut it 'cause I think
I love just making people be like,
"Wow"
Like "I was definitely
not expecting that"
And this is one of those ones that I think,
I know for a fact when people hear this record
When they get to that song they're gonna think, "I cannot
believe that this track is on here"
And so, it's nice to just dive back in to
what I grew up listening to
And actually cut an original song that has such an
ode to like 70s and 80scountry
And especially to have my dad,
who that's when he grew up
Uhm, to have a song like that with him on it
That basically describes why he loves
country music in the first place
And so the song is cool, and
the song is super catchy
And I think it'll be a really great song live,
but more so than that
It's just, you know, as old as I get
I can always say that me and my dad
sang a song together on my re cord
Well, and I was gonna ask, the end
is kinda fun
And somebody described to me, "Oh, wait the
Alan Jackson moment's gonna be coming"
So did you guys just sorta leave
the tape rolling or was that planned?
Like, "Hey, we're just gonna
riff at the end of this song"
Well, you know when the song ends it
goes
into that double time section at the end
Which is such as staple
of that time or period
And also was the guy talking over the outro
And so like we decided
that we were
just kinda gonna go back and forth, and
You know jab at each other a little bit,
and it was just really, really fun
Yeah, I loved your dad's line, "I taught you everything you know,
but not everything I know"
Exactly, I'm pretty sure he stole
that from someone
I'm sure he did,
but he'll never tell you who
Well, again it's called "Drink A Little Beer"
it features Thomas's dad Rhett Akins
And it is on Big Machine Radio