The release of Little Big Town’s latest album, Pain Killer, is just days away, and the band just hopes that folks love it as much as they do.

“I love this record so much. It is more than I could have ever hoped or dreamed,” says LBT’s Karen Fairchild. “When we started, it was a painful process this time. I don’t know why…. it was a good process. It just wasn’t as easy as the other one.”

Bandmate Jimi Westbrook agrees. “We had to work on it. Put in the time and the work and the effort,” he says. “It’s always good, and it makes you appreciate it on the other side a lot. I’m with her. I just hope people love it and embrace it because I feel really good about it.”

The album, which features their latest hit “Day Drinking,” follows up their platinum album, Tornado, which yielded the band awards and their first two No. 1 songs.

Little Big Town, who will become members of the Grand Ole Opry on Friday (October 16th), are set to release Pain Killer on Tuesday (October 21st).

LBT (hopes for Pain Killer) OC: (JIMI) …good about it. 1:00
KAREN: “I just hope people love it as much as we do because we love it. I love this record so much. It is more than I could have ever hoped or dreamed. When we started it was a painful process this time. I don’t know why. It has its own personality, busyness.” PHILLIP: “It was a transformational kind of record because we went through that and we went through that midway through little transformation and kind of came out the other side. I think after ‘Tumble and Fall,’ it started feeling differently.” KAREN: “It’s true. It was good – it was a good process. It just wasn’t as easy as the other one.” JIMI: We had to work on it. Put in the time and the work and the effort. It’s always good, and it makes you appreciate it on the other side a lot. I’m with her. I just hope people love it and embrace it because I feel really good about it.”

LBT (hopes for Pain Killer) 2 OC: …test of time. :24
PHILLIP: “Winning awards and having success, commercial success with Tornado, I think, gave us a bigger platform, and for me, I hope that platform – I’m really proud that we made Painkiller, because it’s the best thing we’ve ever done and that we have a platform to share it on is amazing. So, I think we wanted to step up to the challenge and know there’s a great platform here, what are we going to put on it? And we wanted something to stand the test of time.”