Jimmie Allen has announced his new album – Tulip Drive – will be released on 24th June 2022.
Jimmie Allen has announced that his third album Tulip Drive will be released on 24th June 2022. The lead single – ‘Down Home’ – is available everywhere now, with Allen performing the track on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Much like its predecessors, the album’s title has immense personal meaning for Allen – Tulip Drive is the name of the street his late grandmother grew up on. His 2018 debut album Mercury Lane was named for the street Allen grew up on; his 2020 & 2021 releases Bettie James & Bettie James Gold Edition were named for his grandmother (Bettie Snead) and father (James “Big Jim” Allen), who passed away in 2014 and 2019, respectively.
“A lot of the songs on this album are from that time period. This is the first album where a lot of the songs are actually written based off a lot of my own personal life experiences – from relationships, the hardships of life, to the parties & the good times,” Allen shares. “A lot of these songs are based off things I went through when I was in later in high school and college, at a place where I was just learning a lot of life lessons from my grandmother. I wanted to honour her by naming this album Tulip Drive, after the street she lived on in Lewes, DE.”
This week, Allen will be featured in a groundbreaking Amazon Music documentary ‘For Love & Country.’ The documentary highlights the history of Country music and examines the genre’s past through the lens of a new generation of Black artists claiming space in Nashville – and positively transforming country music in the process.
Full details and Down Home Tour dates can be found at jimmieallenmusic.com.
