Music Mayhem<\/a><\/em> and other media. \u201c\u2026. I remember being in a studio, and I was like, y\u2019all, if you give me some Nashville studio band BS, you know what I mean? I\u2019m like, get into it, lean into it. Let\u2019s get it rowdy. Let\u2019s make this thing rambunctious. I want you to hit the drums harder. I want you to turn the gain up a little bit. And there was just that touch of, like, I\u2019m just going to do what I want and what I think sounds awesome and not try to ring the bell with another number one country song.\u201d<\/p>\nWith that mentality, Famous Back Home <\/em>has brought Dickerson full circle, back in the driver\u2019s seat, so to speak, where he wasn\u2019t just handing off his talents to top producers to come up with the sound for the project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cI think\u2026\u00a0 about my first record a lot\u2026 I mean, I was in my twenties with my first album. Just the freedom or lack of resources, maybe where my producer is in his basement shredding guitar solos, and I\u2019ve got a blanket over my head recording vocals, and all that stuff was so fun. That record was so fun to make,\u201d Dickerson said. \u201cJust going back to that freedom and that confidence, maybe albums two and three may have been a little conservative. And I was more worried about feeding the fans or radio or the world something that I thought they wanted as opposed to me creating my art from a pure place of songwriting, from a pure place of my musical talents. So I\u2019m just trusting all my instincts again as opposed to handing that off to his producers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Russell Dickerson; Photo by Andrew Wendowski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u201cWith album one, I was hands-on with everything. I played the \u2018Yours\u2019 guitar solo. I played every little singing guitar solo, I played the \u2018MGNO\u2019 guitar, and I have my hands on everything. And this is the first album since the first that I\u2019ve gone back and gotten my hands dirty and gotten in there. So that one specifically was super fun to dive into,\u201d he added of his current release co-produced alongside Josh Kerr, plus Casey Brown and Chris LaCorte on select songs. \u201cI feel like I\u00a0 have a very wide range of genre influence [on this album], and that\u2019s what I didn\u2019t hold back on. I\u2019m not the most country dude, and that\u2019s okay. I don\u2019t have to have an album that sounds like X, Y, Z, right? That\u2019s the full circle moment. I feel like I\u2019ve just come back to it, just, this is what you\u2019re going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Famous Back Home, <\/em>Dickerson said he paid attention to the sequencing of the album, unlike his previous collections, which found him visualizing more toward the live concert aspect.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is the album I\u2019ve spent the most on sequencing the songs,\u201d he confirmed. \u201cI think for me it was more about keeping the energy up front\u2026 If I were listening to a record, I would want the bangers to go, boom, boom, boom. So we start with \u2018Dust,\u2019 which is not all the way up here, but then \u2018Sippin\u2019 On Top Of The World,\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Happen To Me\u2019 and \u2018Worth Your Wild\u2019 kick in, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s up again.\u2019 Then I feel like we came down on \u2018Never Leave\u2019 with two guitars and Vince Gill. \u2026 .that was my mindset behind sequencing it\u2026. I hope people put this record in and their heart rate gets kicked up, endorphins kick in, but they also hear \u2018Bones\u2019 and it\u2019s like whoa, reinvigorating love and enjoyment and the joys of everyday family life that can seem so monotonous and overbearing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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