Little Big Town will welcome in the new year with Nightfall, the multi-award-winning quartets ninth studio album and the follow-up to 2017s The Breaker. In advance of the forthcoming LP, the group has unveiled Over Drinking, a delightfully woozy and defiant honky-tonk number that aims to redirect the narrators alcohol consumption, making it more about celebrating camaraderie than drowning ones sorrows in the hard stuff.
I aint on the wagon, these wheels are still turnin but Im tired of you draggin my heart through the dirt and the hurt/ Im over drinkin over you, Karen Fairchild sings with tear-stained conviction in the bridge of the tune, which was penned by Music Row veterans Jesse Frasure, Hillary Lindsey, Ashley Gorley, Steph Jones, and Cary Barlowe.
The January 17th release of Nightfall comes just hours after the groups performance at New Yorks prestigious Carnegie Hall, the first date on their 30-date Nightfall Tour and first performance at that historic venue by a mainstream country act since Alan Jackson in 2013. Little Big Town have been a staple at many of the countrys larger concert venues and festivals over the past decade, but for the groups winter-through-spring trek, theyll concentrate on a more intimate theater setting that echoes the bands 2017 residency at Nashvilles Ryman Auditorium.
Following the Carnegie Hall appearance, the quartet will play two nights at Harlems Apollo Theater. Artist Caitlyn Smith will open all of the dates following the Carnegie Hall concert, with the tour currently scheduled through early May.
