A Whole Different Breed — CD (Pre-Order)

PREORDER — Releases Friday, August 28. Ships on or after release day. Order now to reserve your copy.

Ten tracks of traditional country delivered with a straight face and a whole lot of nerve. A Whole Different Breed takes the rugged grit of the genre (the 808s, the pedal steel, the banjo, the Sunday-morning gospel harmonies) and aims it straight at everything country music is supposed to stand for.

This is satire built on a contradiction: hyper-masculine country sound wrapped around lyrics about being gay in a place that doesn't have a word for it that isn't an insult. Randy Bottoms sings it all deadpan, so the comedy comes from the gap between how serious it sounds and what he's actually saying, from feed-store innuendo to trucker double-entendres to more creative excuses for "it ain't gay" than a man should be able to come up with.

But it's not all a punchline. The record kicks the doors open swinging. "I Breed Cowboys," "Save a Horse, Ride a Sissy," "Diesel Top," and "Farm Handy" are as filthy and fearless as country's ever been. Then, track by track, the bravado starts to crack. "Autocorrect" is a phone that keeps confessing what he won't. "Straight as a Cowboy" is a man who runs clean out of straight things to compare himself to. And it all lands on "Different Kind of Man," a genuine gut-punch about praying to be someone you're not, and finally deciding not to. By the end you've laughed the whole way through and heard something honest underneath it: you can be country all the way down to your boots and still be a whole different breed. Nobody has to choose.

It's sharp, it's filthy, and it's got heart it didn't ask for. Country music for everyone who loves the sound of the South but likes watching its rules get broken.

Tracklist:

1. I Breed Cowboys
2. Save a Horse, Ride a Sissy
3. Look But Don't Touch
4. Autocorrect
5. Diesel Top
6. Hunk of a Man
7. Straight as a Cowboy
8. All My Exes Live in Stetsons
9. Farm Handy
10. Different Kind of Man

What you get: This is the physical CD, professionally pressed with full-color artwork, shipped straight to your door. Hold it, play it, shelve it, collect it. The real thing for people who still like something they can put their hands on.

• Pressed CD in a full-color case with complete album artwork
• All 10 tracks, uncensored and unedited
• Ships to you, ready to play anywhere a CD spins

Order yours and get A Whole Different Breed on your shelf.