Reigning 7-time Country Music Association and 8-time Academy of Country Music “Group of the Year” Old Dominion release their highly-anticipated, sixth studio album Barbara, via Sony Music Nashville. Listen to the brand new project HERE.
Across 13 tracks, Barbara captures everything Old Dominion has ever been about. It finds the quintet blending their signature country, rock, and pop hybrid with new sonic experiments, while toggling between wry wordplay and mature reflections on love and mortality. Their unforgettable hooks and optimistic spirit remain, but Barbara explores the highs and lows of life with honesty and heart, culminating in their most dynamic and personal album to date.
Barbara is the culmination of a whirlwind decade kicked off by the 2015 release of Old Dominion’s debut album Meat And Candy. Since then, they’ve ascended from van tour road warriors to entertainers of the highest caliber, filling amphitheaters and arenas across America and abroad. Along the way, they cultivated a devout fanbase, accrued a host of hit singles, and earned enough awards to make them the winningest Vocal Group Of The Year act in country music history.
Old Dominion have already spent 2025 previewing Barbara, both on the road with their globe-trotting How Good Is That – World Tour and with a series of singles quickly embraced as new fan favorites. The Barbara era kicked off with the album’s anthemic opener “Making Good Time,” chased by the clever earworm “Me Most Nights,” the smoldering reflection “Water My Flowers,” and poignant reflections on the people they’ve become (“Man Or The Song”) and the friends they’ve lost (“Miss You Man”), before wrapping up with the easygoing summer jam “Late Great Heartbreak.”
While the pre-release tracks have already ranged from country-rock bangers to lighters-up ballads, the rest of Barbara will continue to surprise and delight fans with Old Dominion’s unpredictable twists and turns. “Crying in a Beach Bar” is a sun-dappled lament, while “Sip In The Right Direction” is fueled by honky-tonk funk. “Talk Country” is witty but yearning highway rock, while “What Doesn’t Kill A Memory” toys with contemporary R&B. It all culminates with “Goodnight Music City.” First debuted during Old Dominion’s seven-show Ryman residency in early 2025, the song is a tribute to Nashville, the town that made Old Dominion. With references only a local would know — a specific culinary detail points to the famed Robert’s Western World — it’s Old Dominion’s way of bringing it all back home after all the success they’ve achieved.
With Barbara finally out in the world, Old Dominion’s How Good Is That – World Tour will continue to bring new music, alongside all the old favorites, to fans around America and Europe through the fall including Belfast, London, Manchester & Glasgow in the UK. For tickets and more information, visit: https://tour.weareolddominion.com/
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