Album releases become available for download Fridays at midnight East Coast Time. Since that's 9pm Thursday night West Coast Time, every Thursday night, Pepper picks her two favorite songs from the new country albums and plays them on K-Frog for New at Nine! Here are her picks for this week.
Get ready to get your twang on with the new collection from Jon Pardi; Heartache Medication is right in the pocket of his traditional country sound, and it's one he's been slowly working on.
"This record, Heartache Medication, was.... I was always writing after California Sunrise was done," he explains in a statement from his label. "I mean I think I turned in the record, and we wrote the next day for Heartache Medication, and that song was 'Call Me Country.' So, that was written in 2016. So, there's a lot of stuff that you would never know was that old, even 'Heartache Medication,' the song, is almost three years old now. And California Sunrise, we had a three-year life out of that and that's amazing, but I was always working on a new record.
"I wanted to work on this record in three sessions to break up the time, instead of being like, 'We need a new record. We need it now!' I didn't want that to be a thing, so it was like, 'Boom, here's the record.' Three sessions. A lot of fun, and it was a very thought out record."
Here are the songs I played from Heartache Medication for New at Nine tonight:
1. Heartache Medication
2. Tequila Little Time
