The extremely talented Gary Allan is over it.
He’s over trying to cater to mainstream radio (not KOKE-FM of course) and wants to just make the music he wants to again. And we’re all about it, heck, we’ll play it.
The 54-year-old Allan tried to release the pop radio friendly ‘Waste Of A Whiskey Drink’ in 2020 and it fell flat topping the charts at 60, earlier this year his entire and really good album ‘Ruthless’ had little success because not many wanted it to be on the radio.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Gary opened up about how he feels and what he’s going to do with the state of country music these days.
“I don’t think radio is coming back to me. Shit, I’m wondering if I even need a record label right now. Let’s just go make the records that we want to do. And we’re having hard talks about that over the next couple of weeks with my management,” Allan tells Rolling Stone. “There’s so many other avenues, and I’ve never got to make a record without radio in the back of my head. To make a record without even considering them would be so much fun. They’re not going to service (songs to) radio. They do not believe that it’s important. You’re going to start to see A&R departments culling TikTok (for talent). It’s embarrassing, but I think that’s where we’re headed.”
Allan’s had a heck of a career starting 25 years ago when he released the album ‘Smoke Rings In The Dark’ so if he wants to just release good country music he should.
‘Ruthless’ was his first album in 8 years, but it sounds like it could be sooner for his next.
I mean he released the poppy ‘Hangover Tonight’ in 2015 and it was still a great song.
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