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.
Thomas Rhett says he wrote nearly 150 songs for his latest album, so pairing them down to the final selections was a bit of a challenge. And it wasn't toward the end of the project that he decided he would name it Center Point Road.
"Yeah, Center Point Road, basically, is the street I grew up on 20 minutes north of Nashville in a little town called Hendersonville," he explains in a statement from his label. "A lot of people think that I'm from Georgia because my dad's from Georgia, and technically I was born in Georgia, but we moved to San Antonio when I was two and then moved to Nashville when I was three, cause my dad signed a record deal in Nashville in '95.
"But Center Point Road is a little street that I grew up on, and when we wrote the song 'Center Point Road,' it was kind of this looking back song of like all the things that you cared about when you're growin' up and now the things that you don't care about, your successes, your failures, all your firsts, all your lasts, and all that kind of happened in this little town. So when we were writing 'Center Point Road' I didn't think it was going to be the name of the album but I just wanted to write a song about it. And as we started closing the record out, it just seemed like it represented so much of the content on this record – the nostalgia of it, the looking back of it.
"And so much of that road, in a crazy way, shaped who I am today and it made a lot of sense to name our fourth record Center Point Road."
Here are the songs I played from Center Point Road for New at Nine tonight:
1. Center Point Road (with Kelsea Ballerini)
2. Look What God Gave Her
