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HARDY is gearing up to drop his eagerly awaited album,\u00a0Country! Country!<\/em>, on Sept. 26. The album consists of 20 songs that balance traditional and modern country music and features ERNEST and Stephen Wilson Jr. The album’s singles, “Favorite Country Song” and “Bro Country,” have already gained traction on country radio and were recently performed on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Among the most emotional songs on the album is “Dog Years,” which HARDY wrote in 2013 following the loss of his childhood dog, Nugget:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “I went home for dear season over the holidays, and I knew that my dog was getting old, and when it was cold, they’d let him sleep in the front part of the hallway next to where the laundry room was because he was an outside dog,”\u00a0he explained<\/a>. “And I laid with him one night and I fell asleep and I woke up at five in the morning and went and got in the bed, and then I slept a couple more hours and I drove back to Nashville and my dad called me the next morning and he had passed away. So that was the first time that I had cried in seven or eight years.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n