Billy Currington is set to release a career retrospective album, #1’s Vol. 1, on July 5th. The 11-song project will feature his smash hits, “Good Directions,” “People Are Crazy,” “Must Be Doin’ Something Right,” “We Are Tonight,” “Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer” and “That’s How Country Boys Roll,” among others. Pre-order for the collection, on both vinyl and CD, is live now.
number ones project comin' to u in July. ☀️⛵ pre-order now https://t.co/0nvKACiBcC pic.twitter.com/5ROEyNaQte
— Billy Currington (@billycurrington) May 10, 2024
#1’s Vol. 1 (Best of Billy Currington)- Track List:
Side A:
- Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right
- Good Directions
- People Are Crazy
- That’s How Country Boys Roll
- Pretty Good at Drinkin’ Beer
- Let Me Down Easy
Side B:
- Hey Girl
- We Are Tonight
- Don’t It
- It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To
- Do I Make You Wanna
Billy Currington Tour Dates:
May 17 – Tuscaloosa, AL – Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater #+
May 18 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheater #+
June 14 – Sterling Heights, MI – Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre *+
June 21 – Bridgeport, CT – Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater *+
June 22 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17 *+
# = with Kip Moore
* = with Larry Fleet
+ = with Redferrin
Portsmouth, VA on sale 2/2
Audio / Billy Currington says his single, “We Are Tonight,” reminds him of his childhood summers. NOTE: "We Are Tonight" was co-written by Sam Hunt.
DownloadBilly Currington (We Are Tonight) 2 OC: …perfect for it. :35
“Just a young vibe, the innocence, the Friday nights, and it made me think of football games and the summer rolling down the window, driving down the beach boulevard, everything that the song states took me back to my younger years. Also, it’s really amped-up energy, amped-up production in that song, and I thought, ‘Man, this would be great, ‘cause I would love for something like this to be a single ‘cause I definitely want to play it in the arenas and football stadiums.’ And that song would [be] perfect for it.”
Audio / BILLY CURRINGTON TALKS ABOUT RECORDING HIS NO. 1 SINGLE, “DON’T IT.”
DownloadBilly Currington (Don’t It) OC: …did that. :33
“‘Don’t It’ – it’s just one of those songs when you first hear it, you’re like, ‘That’s it! That song sounds like a smash, and I’m so thankful that the songwriters sent it to me.’ Dann Huff worked really hard to get that groove set back in the pocket like it is. It wasn’t something that came in a few minutes of recording. We worked on it, and he got that magical feel to it, and I think that’s one of the main reasons it’s doing so well, ‘cause it’s a shuffle, and it’s hard to get those kind of songs right and get the right tempo and everything about that. And Dann did that.”
Audio / BILLY CURRINGTON ALMOST MISSED RECORDING HIS NO. 1 SINGLE, "IT DON'T HURT LIKE IT USED TO."
DownloadBilly Currington (It Don’t Hurt No. 1) OC: …that it did. :32
“When we wrote the song, at that point in my life I was writing a lot and getting so many songs pitched my way, I kinda already had all the songs I wanted for the record. Then this demo that I guess it was Jesse [Frasure] kind of threw some grooves on there and mixed it up and sent it to my manager John Dennis and he sent it to me and said, ‘Man, have you heard the song you wrote that day?’ And I was like, ‘Naw. It’s been a while, but let me hear it.’ Then he sent it my way and it kind of changed my album a little bit, just that one slot. But I’m thankful that it did.”
Audio / BILLY CURRINGTON TALKS ABOUT “DO I MAKE YOU WANNA,” FEATURED ON HIS ALBUM, SUMMER FOREVER.
DownloadBilly Currington (Do I Make You Wanna) 2 OC: …record it. :24
“It just felt good. The lyrical content is written so perfect. It’s a question. ‘Do I make you wanna dance real slow/do I make you wanna go fly down a two-lane road/am I that guy/am I the one that’s making you happy ‘cause I wanna know/do I make you wanna.’ It just spoke to me. I became a big fan. I listened to it over and over, so I had to record it.”
