It’s always a good day when Flatland Cavalry releases and announces more new music.
They just announced their new album Wandering Star will be out everywhere on October 27th, the first project they’ve released in partnership with their new label Interscope Records.
In addition, they released a single called “Mornings With You,” which features frontman Cleto Cordero’s wife and artist Kaitlin Butt’s on background vocals.
Co-written by Cleto with the Pistol Annies’ Ashley Monroe and Nick Walsh, Cleto says it was “effortless” penning this track with them:
“Last June, I got to write with a couple great songwriters in town, Ashley Monroe and Nick Walsh.
The three of us got along effortlessly—I think our collective experiences with the strenuous journey that is dream-chasing and being highwaymen (and women) lent towards us writing a song that is the antithesis of the hustle and bustle of living the ‘Night Life’; a song about the beauty of cherishing the start of a new day, basking in the peace and stillness, with the one you love most.
The song came to life in the studio, expanding its energy and emotion, as the band added their signature touch.”
He also added that it’s “the great honor and privilege” of his life to wake up next to Kaitlin, so he knew he had to get her voice on the song too, seeing as she’s the inspiration behind it:
“It is the great honor and privilege of my life to get to wake up next to my wife, Kaitlin Butts, so including her voice on the song added an element that makes for a truly beautiful and powerful recording.
Like the rising sun bursting from the dark horizon, she and our bass player’s wife, Sydney Saenz, crafted a luminous angel choir outro that takes the song to heavenly places and makes for one of my favorites records we’ve ever made.”
Wandering Star was produced by Dwight A. Baker, and the tracklist also includes previously released singles in “Last American Summer” and “Oughta See You (The Way I Do).”
Check it out:
“Mornings With You”
Wandering Star tracklist:
1. The Provider
2. The Best Days
3. Only Thing At All
4. Last American Summer
5. Mornings With You (feat. Kaitlin Butts)
6. Let It Roll
7. Spinnin’
8. Don’t Have To Do This Like That
9. New American Dream
10. Oughta See You (The Way I Do)
11. A Thousand Miles An Hour
12. Burned Out Flame
13. Forgotten
“Last American Summer”
