The Great American Bar Scene is quickly coming together.
Zach Bryan has a lot of plates spinning right now, with a world tour currently in progress and a new album on the way. We already got a taste of what his newest project, The Great American Bar Scene, with the release of “Pink Skies (Eulogy).”
And the next song that Zach just dropped, titled “Purple Gas” (another color related song?), is actually a cover of an up-and-coming Americana artist, Noeline Hofmann. Bryan loved the song so much, he not only included it in his Belting Bronco Sessions back in January, but also decided to record a version of it to be released with his new project:
“This song brought me to tears the first time I heard it so it was really important for me that Noeline gave me the privilege to sing it with her.
I have never covered another musician on an album and it’s because I was waiting on someone to write a song like this. Noeline resonates like Gillian Welch to me and Gillian is one of my favorite musicians to ever live.”
As Bryan stated, “Purple Gas” is the first cover that the country star has ever included in any of albums, though Noeline will be singing on the track along with him.
The “Heading South” singer also announced that he would be “fan-sourcing” the music video for the new song, as he did with his hit “Something in the Orange” back in 2022:
“EVERYBODY, I am making a fan sourced video for Noeline Hofmann’s song we sang for my new album ‘The Great American Bar Scene’ like I did for ‘Something in the Orange.’ I like doing these because it makes me feel so much more connected to the people that listen to my music.
Send any hometown, farmland, American centered, midwestern, western style footage to this link, we will not be picky. Purple Gas is out TONIGHT.”
https://twitter.com/zachlanebryan/status/1798870297199956306
And the studio version is HERE.
You can also listen to Hofmann’s recording from the Belting Bronco Session:
