Playful New Song “Kissing Cowboys” Out Now
Love & Light Tour Slated for this Spring
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country music’s most vibrant female duo Maddie & Tae announce their fourth studio album Love & Light due out May 2 on Mercury Nashville. The 16-track album features previously released songs “Free Like,” “Sad Girl Summer,” “Heart They Didn’t Break,” and today’s latest good-time tune, “Kissing Cowboys.”
Produced by Josh Kerr, Chris LaCorte, and Corey Crowder, Love & Light provides stories of resilience, confidence, vulnerability, and the ever-enduring bond of friendship and sisterhood Maddie & Tae have formed over the years. Together, they have grown up, started families, seen the world, and faced career highs and lows. Those life lessons and wisdom are reflected throughout Love & Light. Pre-Order/Pre-Save HERE.
“The thing about being a little bit older,” says Taylor Kerr, “is you realize how many things you wish someone had told you. All the stuff you worried about, the pressure to be somebody else’s idea – when you really should be out there, well, ‘kissing cowboys.’”
The aptly titled “Kissing Cowboys,” written by Font, Kerr, Luke Dick, and Laura Veltz, celebrates the joy in the journey. Out now, listen to “Kissing Cowboys” HERE.
For Love & Light, Maddie & Tae drafted bluegrass sensation Bryan Sutton, Academy of Country Music Guitarist and two-time Specialty Instrumentalist of the Year Danny Rader, four-time ACM Bassist of the Year Jimmie Lee Sloas, electric guitarist Kris Donegan and drummers Evan Hutchings and Aaron Sterling among many musicians. With the all-star instrumentalists, Maddie & Tae sought to turn up both the gleam and the organic punch of their sound. Somewhere between Shania and Miranda, the 10-time ACM and CMA Duo of the Year nominees – and Country Music Association Award winners – dug into their roots to refine the essence of what they do.
“We’ve been out on the road,” Kerr says, “playing for a few thousand people at our own dates. We realized people are hungry for songs that tell it like it is about being single, being done wrong, being done right, and figuring out how to grow up without losing your sense of self, your friends or your dreams. So, we leaned into all those things.”
“And we didn’t let go of that sound where we take acoustic instruments, really make them shine and then thread all that electric goodness through a pretty stout base,” Font continues.
Watch the visualizer for Maddie & Tae’s “Kissing Cowboys” HERE
LOVE & LIGHT Track Listing
1. Fall in Love & Find Out
2. Any Kinda Lovin’**
3. One Hit Wonders **
4. Heart They Didn’t Break**
5. Only Jesus
6. Free Like
7. Down That Road*
8. Kissing Cowboys
9. Somebody Will
10. Girl in Alabama
11. Ain’t Enough
12. What a Woman Can Do
13. Drunk Girls in Bathrooms
14. Chasing Babies & Raising Dreams
15. Sad Girl Summer**
16. Love & Light
Produced by Josh Kerr
*Produced by Josh Kerr and Chris LaCorte
**Produced by Corey Crowder
Photo Credit: Lily Nelson | High Resolution Image HERE
Maddie & Tae Love & Light Tour:
April 10 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
April 25 – Chicago, IL – Joe’s Live
May 1 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
May 9 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
May 15 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre