Lori McKenna has released her new single ‘The Town In Your Heart,’ taken from her anticipated new album 1988 – out 21st July. Pre-order/pre-save the record here.
GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Lori McKenna’s new song, “The Town in Your Heart,” written by McKenna, Jessie Jo Dillon and Dustin Christensen, is out now – the second song unveiled from McKenna’s anticipated new album, 1988, which will be released July 21 via CN Records/Thirty Tigers (pre-order/pre-save here). It’s a beautiful, musing song about loss, written by one of America’s greatest songwriters and promises another phenomenally composed record to come.
You’re in my heart now, no matter what
You’re in the dark now, and I can’t touch you
You’re in my heart now, the deepest part now
The deepest part, no matter what
So go on and take me with you wherever you are
I hope I live on a road in the town in your heart
Produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell) and recorded at Cobb’s studio in Savannah, GA, 1988 is named for the year McKenna married her husband, Gene, and serves as a love letter to her family and lifelong friendships. Across these ten compelling tracks, including a songwriting collaboration with her son, Chris (“Happy Children”), McKenna reflects on the experiences, lessons and relationships from her past 35 years.
Of the album, McKenna shares, “I was trying to let my age and experience guide me through making a record I wished I’d made when I was younger. I really wanted it to sound like if I made a rock record in the ‘90s, and then I remembered that I made my first album in 1998. There’s something so 30 years ago in my head about this record. In a way I wish I could start again and know what I know now.”
In celebration of the new music, McKenna will embark on her “The Town in Your Heart Tour” in the US this summer.
The release of 1988 adds to a series of landmark years for McKenna and follows three widely acclaimed albums: 2016’s The Bird & The Rifle, 2018’s The Tree and 2020’s The Balladeer, of which the Associated Press praised, “McKenna has by now long established herself as one of the best songwriters working in any genre. And she does it again and again,” while The Tennessean asserted, “one of the sharpest pens in modern country and folk songwriting.”
1988 TRACK LIST
1. The Old Woman in Me (written by Lori McKenna)
2. Happy Children (written by Lori McKenna, Chris McKenna)
3. Killing Me feat. Hillary Lindsey (written by Lori McKenna, Hillary Lindsey, Luke Laird)
4. Days Are Honey (written by Lori McKenna, Barry Dean, Luke Laird)
5. 1988 (written by Lori McKenna, Brian McKenna)
6. Growing Up (McKenna)
7. Wonder Drug (McKenna)
8. The Town in Your Heart (written by Lori McKenna, Jessie Jo Dillon, Dustin Christensen)
9. Letting People Down (McKenna)
10. The Tunnel (written by McKenna, Ben West, Stephen Wilson Jr)
