'Anything To Do With You' opens the album withsmooth bore countrythatwould feel right at home on any of Walker's four platinum CDs.

But now I'min a sweet spot in music, in life, and I definitely feel the audience has swung around toappreciating musicthat makes those connections.'Thoselinksare obvious onTexas To Tennessee.

Whathe was saying, and I think he was right,was,'Clay, you've got some gears toyou that will excite people if you let it.'I was young–23–and didn't really settle with that. 'James Stroudpushed me more towards popsounds I fought with. 1swasn't without its struggles, however.'Being bornand raised inthe Houston area, Ithought of myself in the line of George Strait and ClintBlack, but my first producer had other ideas,' Walker says. Racking upmorethan 30 chartedsinglesand11No. Among them,“Live Until I Die,” 'DreamingWith My Eyes Open,' “This Woman And This Man,” 'Hypnotize The Moon,' 'Rumor Has It,' “ThenWhat,” 'I Can't Sleep' and 'She Won't Be Lonely Long.'His self-titled debut album rocketed to platinumstatus, the first of four to cross the million-sold mark. But don't mistake those dualities for dichotomy–and certainly not polarity.In a storied career dotted with smash singles, platinum albums and countless honorsand acclaim, maybethe connection between country's timeless themes and music-of-the-moment timeliness has been there allalong.Many of the country fans behind thealmost 20 million on-demand and video streams for hislatest single'Need A Bar Sometimes'–who may also be among his 750,000 TikTok followers–are wholly unawareof Walker's history.Discovered in a Beaumont area bar by noted producer and head of Giant RecordsJames Stroud(Toby Keith, Tracy Lawrence,TimMcGraw, Kenny Rogers), Walker was in his earlytwenties when he started rattling off a string of smash hits. There's also amix of songwriting and production approaches,evident and more nuanced relationships between thesongs themselves,and the overarching presence of a naturally gifted vocalist whorelentlessly pursues hisown development as a singer. There's more to the duality of Clay Walker's debut Show Dog Nashville albumTexas To Tennesseethanthe title.Certainly,the realities of place are as central as this comeback album'sname implies:Nashvillebusily working toward the next fresh hit Texas moving at its inimitable and familiar pace.

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