{"id":2081039,"date":"2025-10-10T04:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2081039"},"modified":"2025-10-10T04:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:10:38","slug":"morgan-evans-announces-new-album-steel-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/morgan-evans-announces-new-album-steel-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Evans Announces New Album &#8216;Steel Town&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Australian country star Morgan Evans has announced his sophomore album\u00a0<em>Steel Town,<\/em> due for release on March 20th, featuring\u00a0his first single in over two years, \u201cBeer Back Home\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in Nashville and co-produced by Morgan Evans and Todd Clark, \u201cBeer Back Home\u201d is an upbeat and nostalgic soundtrack, built for a Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to get outta this town. I needed something real. Old mates, familiar places, and salt water,\u201d Evans shared. \u201cI reconnected with where I came from, who I was, who I wanna be. This record is a journey, and it all started with a beer back home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been two years since he last released music. Evans spent much of this time in his hometown of Newcastle, where he first fell in love with songwriting. It allowed for a period of reflection, which ultimately tapped a vein of creativity and brought him back to Nashville with a renewed passion for crafting songs.<\/p>\n<p>That full journey and reflective energy will be captured on his upcoming sophomore album, <em>Steel Town.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5Lks14NDn8Te1lgAF7tJZP?utm_source=generator\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Evans first came on the scene with his debut self-titled album in 2014, and over the course of a number of albums and EPs, has amassed more than 800 million streams so far. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/morgan-evans-rolling-stone-digital-cover-20697\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em>\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0of the singer\/songwriter in 2020: \u201cMorgan Evans has the gravitational effect of a star in the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the release of two follow up EPs, Evans hit a new career high with the release of the raw and viral \u201cOver For You\u201d. The song marked a cathartic reset and culminated in two sold-out nights at the iconic Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/themusicnetwork.com\/virgin-music-morgan-evans-partnership-new-single\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed with Virgin Music Group<\/a> for the next phase of his career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian country star Morgan Evans has announced his sophomore album\u00a0Steel Town, due for release on March 20th, featuring\u00a0his first single in over two years, \u201cBeer Back Home\u201d. Recorded in Nashville and co-produced by Morgan Evans and Todd Clark, \u201cBeer Back Home\u201d is an upbeat and nostalgic soundtrack, built for a Saturday night. \u201cI had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2081040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[383848,383850,391221,391222],"class_list":["post-2081039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-beer-back-home","tag-morgan-evans","tag-morgan-evans-new-music","tag-steel-town"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Morgan-Evans-Announces-New-Album-Steel-Town.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081041,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081039\/revisions\/2081041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}