Nashville, TN (Jim Havey Public Relations) -- Riding the strong momentum of his riveting radio single, I Just Came Back (From a War), Country hit-maker
Darryl Worley makes his 903
Music album debut with the release of Here and Now, available nationally at retail beginning tomorrow. It's not just new music or a new direction. This is a somewhat different guy who's gone through a lot and come to a place where I want to let some of the seriousness go and help people laugh, smile, and have a good time.
Here and Now is also available on all digital download sites including www.itunes.com.
Produced by Frank Rogers, Here and Now features thirteen new songs, all penned by Darryl Worley and friends.
Darryl Worley today is his own man, in control of his music and his life. He looks the way he wants to look. He's writing and singing the songs he wants to sing. He has hooked up with an artist-friendly record label, the mid-sized 903 Music. A full 360 degree view of Worley as a writer and artist is clearly evident on Here and Now.
There's a new exuberance in his declarations of personal and professional independence with titles like Jumpin' Off the Wagon, Free, Living In the Here and Now, and Nothin' To Lose.
There's honesty, too, and compassion, in stories he pulls from life on songs like Slow Dancing with a Memory, and Things I'll Never Do Again.
Then there's that steamy tale on Ain't Nothin' but a Love Thang, and party songs like Party Song and Whiskey Makes the World Go Round, and more surprises to boot.
Worley comments, "A thread runs through this album: that sense of freedom that comes not only from within but also through things you experience in your life. When so many changes happen on the outside, they're bound to affect you on the inside too. So these songs don't come from the same Darryl Worley you've had the opportunity to meet and get to know." He continues, "It's not just new music or a new direction. This is a somewhat different guy who's gone through a lot and come to a place where I want to let some of the seriousness go and help people laugh, smile, and have a good time."
But while there is an abundance of good time music on this album, it's emotional centerpiece is the emotionally-charged I Just Came Back (From a War), inspired by a Marine that Worley met who was having a difficult time adjusting to life back home after being at battle in Iraq. The song, about compassion and understanding, is shooting up the Country radio charts and garnering national media attention.
Worley performs the song tonight when he headlines Eagle Appreciation Day at Fort Campbell, organized to say thank you to all the 101st Airborne Division soldiers and their families for their hard work and the sacrifices they endure on a daily basis.
After recent coverage in The New York Times and Reuters, street week media for Here and Now includes Associated Press Television; USA Today; The Today Show: Weekend Edition (11/19); MSNBC.com; a television special on Great American Country (11/19 - 11/22); CMT 300 Sessions (11/21); AT&T blue room performance (11/21); and a Jones Radio World Premiere, among others.
Darryl Worley debuted on the Country charts with a trio of top-15 hits in 2000-01: When You Need My Love, A Good Day to Run, and Second Wind. His breakthrough year was 2002 when Worley's touching ballad I Miss My Friend, the title tune to his second CD, became his first No. 1 hit. After he spent Christmas 2002 entertaining America's troops in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Uzbekistan, he came home and wrote the patriotic anthem Have You Forgotten?, which became his second No. 1 song and remained at the top of the charts for six weeks. In the summer of 2004, Awful Beautiful Life was released and soon rocketed up the country music charts to become a multi-week No. 1 record in January 2005.
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