Big Loud Texas<\/a> in 2023, they quickly brought Worthington into the fold.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI feel like it just garnered me more champions within the company,\u201d Worthington says. \u201cI feel really grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAs the album\u2019s title nods to, Worthington had a hand in writing nearly every song on the album. The lone exception is a song Lambert wrote with Jesse Frasure, Dean Dillon and Jessie Jo Dillon.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cShe told me the story that she had gotten the write with Dean and they had tossed ideas out and nothing was happening. I guess it started raining and Dean is pretty well known to just go light a cigarette, walk away and come back with brilliance. I guess he lit a cigarette and said, \u2018Hello, shitty day,\u2019 and Miranda had said, \u2018I want to write that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLambert sent the song to Worthington, who immediately decided to record it and asked Lambert to sing on it.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWhen it\u2019s all said and done, there will never be no one like her, and I feel really fortunate that I\u2019ve gotten to see that firsthand. I just thought, hearing her sing, \u2018She\u2019s one of the best singers I\u2019ve ever heard in my life,\u201d Worthington says.<\/p>\n
\n\tCountry Music Hall of Famer Marty Stuart joins him on \u201cI\u2019m The One,\u201d which has its own piece of guitar history embedded in the recording.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMarty\u2019s the coolest guy out there, and he is a steward of country music,\u201d Worthington says. \u201cWhen we did the [recording] session, he had brought the Clarence White Telecaster [which belonged to late Byrds musician Clarence White] and that\u2019s cultural architecture right there. They had put me in the vocal booth with Marty and they had an old reverb. I was singing, and he had the Clarence White going and you could feel the air off the amp, like I was getting baptized in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWorthington says Stuart also brought to the session a Martin D-45 guitar once owned by Hank Williams, Sr. \u201cIt had this bow tie inlay at the top by the bridge. Marty\u2019s the type of guy that\u2019ll be wearing a $50 gig bag around his neck, and it\u2019s got a million-dollar guitar in it. It could be Jimmie Rodgers\u2019 guitar, it could be Merle Haggard\u2019s guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe tender, piano-led track \u201cI Feel You,\u201d featuring harmonies from stellar vocalist Mae Estes, was written by Worthington with Roger Springer and Jacob Weinschenk \u2014 though Worthington says it also led to an eyebrow-raising, humorous situation when he played it for his wife Sophie. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThey really got started on that. I\u2019m writing it with them and I\u2019m just smelling the brownie points,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI\u2019m thinking, \u2018Sophie\u2019s gonna love this because they are true feelings and things that I probably don\u2019t say enough.\u2019 I got home to play it for her, she\u2019s listening to it and I\u2019m thinking she\u2019s just going to be knocked out by it. She goes, \u2018Who the f\u2014k\u2019s got auburn hair?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh, s\u2014t. That\u2019s Jacob\u2019s wife.\u2019 So for me to sing it, we had to change that lyric to \u2018golden.\u2019 So that was a fun little part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWorthington also has his wife Sophie to thank for bringing in Estes to sing on the track. \u201cI recorded it and realized the song needed a strong female harmony vocal. I called Sophie and got her thoughts on it and she goes, \u2018If you don\u2019t call Mae Estes right now, you\u2019re about the dumbest son of a b\u2014ch.\u2019 So that\u2019s what I did. I called and left Mae a voicemail at 3:30 in the morning and asked her to sing on the song. She said yes before she even heard it. I had already put my vocal down on it, but it was important to me to sing it together, so I canned that s\u2014t and she came into the studio and we sang it together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tOff the studio, Worthington has been soaking in his new role as dad to the couple\u2019s daughter Whitley, born nearly a year ago. \u201cMe and Sophie are very, very lucky people. We have a healthy, healthy, beautiful baby girl,\u201d says Worthington.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe also notes his daughter is already showing some love for classic country: \u201cShe loves Merle Haggard. I mean, that girl could be just having a hissy fit, but Mama puts on a YouTube video of Merle Haggard live on [Austin City Limits<\/em>], that little booger will flip around and find that music and just be mesmerized by it. And I sing her the same old songs I heard as a kid, \u2018Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down.\u2019 And I would sing [Wynn Stewart\u2019s] \u2018It\u2019s Such A Pretty World Today.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAs he releases his sophomore project, Worthington is bringing his brand of country music to fans as direct support on Zach Top\u2019s Cold Beer & Country Music Tour, and opening slots on Jon Pardi\u2019s Honkytonk Hollywood Tour.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis is the second chapter in a book that I hope has a whole lot of chapters,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
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