{"id":2128949,"date":"2025-11-01T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2128949"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:53:34","slug":"jake-worthington-honors-country-roots-with-new-album-when-i-write-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jake-worthington-honors-country-roots-with-new-album-when-i-write-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Worthington Honors Country Roots With New Album \u2018When I Write The Song\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n            <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thatericalper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0d33d295-d972-4edb-8f1e-c02cdb9fed77.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- content --><\/p>\n<p>Country neo-traditionalist Jake Worthington is keeping the honky-tonk spirit alive with his sophomore album <em>When I Write The Song<\/em>, out now via Big Loud Texas under exclusive license to Mercury Records\/Republic Records. The 14-track project is tailor-made for barrooms and dance halls, marking the next chapter for one of country\u2019s most authentic voices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis record means to me\u2026it\u2019s a reminder to fight the good fight,\u201d says Worthington, the 2025 Texas Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year nominee. \u201cI\u2019m a strong believer in \u2018do what moves ya.\u2019 Make the kind of music that wrecks your world or picks up all the pieces. If it makes you feel that kind of way, and if that\u2019s what you need, then don\u2019t let anybody or anything change that. That\u2019s what this record is to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>When I Write The Song<\/em> features a mix of heartache, humor, and hard truths\u2014anchored by standout collaborations with country heavyweights. Highlights include \u201cNot Like I Used To,\u201d the clever \u201cIt Ain\u2019t The Whiskey,\u201d the heartfelt \u201cI\u2019m The One\u201d featuring Marty Stuart, last fall\u2019s \u201cHello Shitty Day\u201d with Miranda Lambert, and the unreleased \u201cI Feel You\u201d with Mae Estes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Worthington - Not Like I Used To (Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OsKB9-LV9Ic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A native of La Porte, Texas, Worthington grew up surrounded by the sounds of Ray Price, Merle Haggard, and George Jones, learning the craft on his grandfather\u2019s porch. His music carries that tradition forward\u2014equal parts honky-tonk grit and dance hall grace\u2014offering a reminder that there\u2019s still room for country in country music. \u201cI believe in country music as much as I believe in my next breath,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track Listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It Ain\u2019t The Whiskey<\/li>\n<li>Hello Shitty Day (featuring Miranda Lambert)<\/li>\n<li>Too Much To Think<\/li>\n<li>King Of The World<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m The One (featuring Marty Stuart)<\/li>\n<li>Drownin\u2019 In Whiskey<\/li>\n<li>Not Like I Used To<\/li>\n<li>When I Write The Song<\/li>\n<li>Two First Names<\/li>\n<li>I Only Drink When It Rains<\/li>\n<li>I Still Believe In Miracles<\/li>\n<li>I Feel You (featuring Mae Estes)<\/li>\n<li>My Home\u2019s In Oklahoma<\/li>\n<li>Get Gone Too<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\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 www.thatericalper.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country neo-traditionalist Jake Worthington is keeping the honky-tonk spirit alive with his sophomore album When I Write The Song, out now via Big Loud Texas under exclusive license to Mercury Records\/Republic Records. The 14-track project is tailor-made for barrooms and dance halls, marking the next chapter for one of country\u2019s most authentic voices. \u201cThis record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2128950,"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":[404677,371866,366076,371871,329432,365465,308486,343720,404678,352404],"class_list":["post-2128949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-big-loud-texas","tag-jake-worthington","tag-jon-pardi","tag-mae-estes","tag-marty-stuart","tag-mercury-records","tag-miranda-lambert","tag-republic-records","tag-texas-country-music-association","tag-zach-top"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jake-Worthington-Honors-Country-Roots-With-New-Album-\u2018When-I.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128949","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=2128949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128951,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128949\/revisions\/2128951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}