Following the recent release of the third installment of his three-part project, The Album, Chase Rice says he’s ready to close that chapter and move on to the next.
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“The Album is done and I’m so glad it’s done ‘cause it’s been a long process,” Chase told Audacy’s Katie Neal. “I’m finally done with that part of my life, really. All of these songs were lived on the road, they were lived while I was touring. — The madness, the noise. Now, I get to focus on the one after this, that’s all the songs I lived during quarantine.”
While the songs Chase wrote during the early parts of the pandemic are sure to carry a different vibe than those before, he revealed that won’t be the only big difference between the two projects. While The Album took a multi-release approach, exposing fans to only a few tracks at a time, Chase says for his next project, he plans on returning to a more traditional approach, releasing all songs at once.
“I think I’ll probably do a full album next, just to go back to it,“ he expressed. “I think the songs I’ve written during COVID, during quarantine belong together.”
The 35-year-old gave fans the first taste of his next project earlier this year with an Instagram video of himself singing a song titled, “Life Part Of Living.”
“To be honest, this feels like a really weird time of life, a lot of weird things goin’ on,” he said in the video. “But, this morning, the best thing that could’ve happened to me, happened, and that’s a song hit me out of nowhere… hopefully it’s as bright of a note in y’alls days as it has been in mine.”
As he teases new music, fans still aren’t over his most-current releases and his top 15 single, “Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen (feat. Florida Georgia Line).” Regardless of only having the opportunity to play it live a total of four times so far, Chase says fans haven’t had any problems connecting and he looks forward to seeing them go crazy for it at the many live shows to come.
“It is huge!” Chase said. “I mean, it gets people out of their seats. At the Ryman [Auditorium] they rushed to the front of the stage, which you don’t do at the Ryman. So, it’s been pretty nuts, and it’s got a long life to go.”
The in-person response has a whole new meaning to Chase after the future of live performances was in question for so long amidst the pandemic. While he admitted he needed time off in the beginning of 2020, he never thought it would be forced, or last over a year.
“You hit the point where you just have so many shows and you’re like, ‘man, I need a break,’” Chase said of his tour schedule before COVID. “I remember in the beginning of 2020… I got off of our last show in Amsterdam and I was like, ‘man, I need break.’ I got with a couple buddies and flew to Japan and snowboarded.”
He continued, “I didn’t realize how much I needed that break [during quarantine], even though I was going to take a couple of months there anyway. But then it [live music] got ripped away. I was like, ‘I don’t need a break that bad!”
Chase will hit the road this fall with his headlining tour and join Kane Brown for the second half of his Blessed And Free Tour, beginning January 2022.
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