Garth Brooks Confirms “All Day Long” Single & Randall King-Penned Opening Tour Song
Garth Brooks has a new single on the way called “All Day Long” that will be debuting on radio stations on Tuesday, June 19th, as well as a new song called “The Road I’m On” that will also be made available to fans who pre-order his next album. The not-yet-titled album from Garth is expected to be released in the next few months. And though there’s no name or official release date for the new album, both songs will be made available to consumers who pre-order it starting Tuesday for a promotional price of $10.00 through Garth’s exclusive digital partner, Amazon.
This was the news coming out of Garth’s weekly Facebook Live stream on Monday (6-18) where he announced the new single and the details behind it. “Country music with a fiddle? You bet your ass! It’s coming tomorrow,” Garth said. At the CMA Fest earlier this month, Garth also said of the song, “We were playing all the stuff that we used to play in the honky tonks, and hearing it bounce off those brick walls and hearing those people sing along, I said, ‘You know what? What we need is a good damn honky-tonk song.’ So that’s what we went to do. This is one of those songs I can play all day long. I love this song.”
Garth went on to describe “All Day Long” as a mix of “Two of a Kind (Workin’ on a Full House), “Ain’t Goin’ Down (Til the Sun Comes Up),” and “Callin’ Baton Rouge.” “I’m just gonna say that a seat belt and a helmet might be nice on this one,” Garth promised.
The second song “The Road I’m On” is a song Garth has chosen to be the opening song for his upcoming tour. As Saving Country Music predicted last week, it is a song written by emerging traditional country artist Randall King, who Garth has been touting since the release of Randall’s self-titled album on April 27th.
“Everybody always asks me, who are the new people that you’re looking at coming up. Guys, I’m going to tell you right now, this kid right here, Randall King,” Garth said in April. “All I can say is, sweet guy, good guy, hell of a writer, hell of a songwriter. An independent artist. He’s not signed to a record label. This is what country music is all about for me.”
READ: Randall King Receives Deserved Praise for Self-Titled Debut
“The Road I’m On” will be a big boost in attention (and royalties) for Randall King, especially as the opening song on Garth’s upcoming tour. Garth says of the song, “It’s just one of those songs that’s just all about appreciation and describes the tour really really well.”
June 18, 2018 @ 5:47 pm
Trigger, why isn’t there many country concerts going on in June and July? I’m leaving for the National Guard in early August and me and my friend wanted to see a concert before I leave but there’s barely any. Just curious if you knew why there were so few going on.
June 18, 2018 @ 5:51 pm
Right now it’s the heart of summer festival season, so a lot of artists big and small, but especially big are only playing big summer festivals instead of headliner tours. Smaller artists will play club dates in between their festival schedule, but bigger names are likely to play festivals only, then start everything back up come September.
June 18, 2018 @ 7:25 pm
I was hoping to catch like Chris Stapleton, but Brent Cobb, Jamey Johnson, Cody Jinks, etc would be awesome too. Unfortunately they’re all touring areas like NY and Indiana and such. Speaking of Brent Cobb, showed him to my parents and my mom said she felt like she was at Woodstock lol.
June 19, 2018 @ 11:36 am
Huh?
June 18, 2018 @ 6:01 pm
Rob,thanks for your service to our country.You are in my
Prayers.
June 18, 2018 @ 7:22 pm
It’s only National Guard man, probably won’t even get deployed. I appreciate it though.
June 18, 2018 @ 8:47 pm
Oh ok
June 19, 2018 @ 6:49 am
It’s not only the National Guard. You signed up to serve at home and abroad as needed. That’s something special. Thank you.
June 19, 2018 @ 7:57 am
Rob- If your recruiter told you the Guard wont deploy I gotta title of a particular George Strait song for ya. Best of luck stay safe and if you cant be safe be dangerous.
June 19, 2018 @ 10:14 am
My recruiter let me know it’s entirely possible, but short of another Afghanistan type situation, I’ll likely only be used for disaster relief. You never know though. Out of curiousity, what’s the song? I don’t listen to much George Strait, I prefer the outlaw/rock infused sound usually.
June 19, 2018 @ 11:25 am
https://youtu.be/ioPa1URjZ_Y
June 18, 2018 @ 6:28 pm
Whoa, nice! Randall King has been one of my very favorite new country discoveries. Can’t get enough of that album. It’s fantastic! Great voice, melodies, production, everything! I’m sure this is a big deal to him.
Also, good god, the Mets suck.
June 18, 2018 @ 6:34 pm
I keep waiting for Kacey to release her own headlining tour dates in the north east, ’cause I really don’t want to see an expensive show on a Harry styles support show with only 10 songs. I mean, I may go anyway, ’cause i love her, but i hope i don’t have to and can just go to her own show.
I’m seeing Tyler Childers in late July, and same goes for Miranda Lambert and Jenny Lewis… so my summer is pretty set!
June 19, 2018 @ 2:57 am
This was *supposed* to be a response to Rob up there. Whoops!
June 19, 2018 @ 10:15 am
I’m jealous that you’re going to see Tyler Childers
June 18, 2018 @ 7:12 pm
Congrats to Randall more than anything, those royalty checks are gonna be sweet.
June 18, 2018 @ 8:25 pm
Yep, this is something I’ve been saying here for ages whenever someone says mainstream doesn’t matter or something along those lines. We should all want the best most talented performers to make lots of money because that will incentivize the powers that be to sign more of them and it will reward talented people.
June 19, 2018 @ 12:47 am
Garth is funny. Last week, he said his new single will be a song that he likes so much, he could play it “all day long”, and now he said the new single is called “All Day Long”. Hahaha he is hilarious.
June 19, 2018 @ 4:30 am
I’m excited to the see this!
June 19, 2018 @ 5:27 am
The first 30 sec. of the song are not very promising.
“All Day Long” will be a big concert hit…on the charts not so much.
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June 19, 2018 @ 5:30 am
Just streamed it online. As a long time Garth fan, its not his best stuff, but WAY better than the previous singles and the production quality is leaps and bounds better than Gunslinger.
Overall, a very positive sign for the up and coming album and definitely a step in the right direction for Garth and possibly…hopefully…mainstream country as a whole.
And who can’t be excited about the union with Randall King?
June 19, 2018 @ 5:55 am
This Garth guy’s music don’t sound too much like country music, never really has in fact. But he wears a cowboy hat so he must be legit I suppose.
June 19, 2018 @ 7:55 am
No, its not Cody Jinks or the Turnpike Troubadours. But if you can’t differentiate Garth’s new song from bro-country and 90% of the other drivel on country radio and at least see it as a step in the right direction, then I don’t know what to tell you.
June 19, 2018 @ 9:37 am
I’m not a fan of Cody Jinks or Turnpike either. A solid shit might be easier to deal with than explosive diarrhea, but it’s still shit just the same.
June 19, 2018 @ 9:40 am
To be clear, I’m not calling Jinks or TT shit, I’m referring to Garth Brooks.
June 19, 2018 @ 6:39 pm
I kind of agree with you on Garth. I’ve never got the appeal. Better than pop/bro country? Pretty pretty good? OK. But with so many better options both old & new, why settle? And all that’s before we even get to Gaines.
Curious to know though if you’ve given Cody Jinks much of a chance though. I find it hard to believe that a country fan wouldn’t like him. TT, who I love, I can sort of understand. But Cody? That’s crazy talk!
June 19, 2018 @ 8:45 pm
I’m unable to reply directly to your comment, so I’m replying to mine.
Anyway, I’ve given Jinks a pretty good look. I like a few of his songs quite well, songs like Hippies and Cowboys, Gaylor Creek, etc. It’s not really that I don’t like him, it’s just that he’s not a guy I listen to on a daily or even weekly basis. Honestly, I’ve always preferred Whitey Morgan when it comes to filling that Waylon-esque modern day niche in country music.
June 19, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
Fair enough.
Can’t really go wrong with a Whitey.
June 19, 2018 @ 9:46 am
If you don’t think his early stuff like “Not Counting You” doesn’t sound like country I don’t know what the hell you think does.
June 19, 2018 @ 10:01 am
Waylon, Willie, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce, Hank are my barometer for what classifies as country. Garth was/is at best a poor man’s George Strait.
June 19, 2018 @ 11:50 am
Early Garth was like George Strait with way better vocals and songs. Sure he’s tarnished his legacy for me and many others, but for a little while there I argue he was one of the best ever
June 19, 2018 @ 2:23 pm
I feel about early Garth Brooks the same way I feel about William Michael Morgan, Jon Pardi, Moe Pitney, etc.; Sure, it’s country, but it’s not particularly good or interesting.
June 19, 2018 @ 7:10 am
And in other news today….it rained.
June 19, 2018 @ 7:20 am
I actually like the new song and think it is much better than his previous singles and the production sounds much better in my opinion. It might not be the best song, but I really like it.
June 19, 2018 @ 8:01 am
“All Day Long” is a different sound for Garth and for the most part, I like it. It almost sounds like something Hank Jr. might have recorded circa 1987.
June 19, 2018 @ 9:53 am
Listening right now, the people here are clearly not going to like how much “All Day Long” leans toward rock. Still has a clearly audible fiddle and steel guitar though and the production is definitely better. Not his best, but not terrible either and will certainly play well at concerts and has a chance at radio.
“The Road I’m On” is recognizably country and would fit in well on one of his later pre-hiatus albums like Scarecrow. It would absolutely have been a hit in the late ’90s/early ’00s.
June 19, 2018 @ 6:11 pm
I heard “All Day Long” today on the Garth channel, I don’t like it. Sure it’s better than most new stuff today but still to much rock. I think Garth’ s other post retirement stint (Around 2007 I think?) Diffinetly had better song selection. That girl is a cowboy and land of the midnight sun were pretty straight up country songs. And like one poster mentioned a few articles ago Garth use to sing about the subject of cowboys and rodeos alot when he was younger and those songs reflected that. His songs this go around just haven’t clicked with me.
June 20, 2018 @ 3:53 am
Just heard “All Day Long” on Amazon.
While it’s not great… it’s country, or country-rock, at least.
June 20, 2018 @ 6:53 am
Thanks for the amazon tip, first I’ve heard a clip of the song. It sounds like one of Randall King’s didn’t-make-the-album cuts, which is a good thing. Randall’s other songs are better. I hope the royalty checks help him out, though.
This is the sort of tune that sits next to something Kix Brooks would write.
Not judgin’, just sayin’.
June 20, 2018 @ 8:18 am
Garth has never been a favorite of mine but has had some good songs over the year IMO. But this isn’t one of them.
That being said, this song is about as country as we will get on the radio these days. At least he mixed in some token fiddle and steel.
Waiting on new Jinks and Morgan albums….
June 20, 2018 @ 1:14 pm
Two of the songs mentioned, “Ain’t Goin’ Down…” and “Callin’ Baton Rouge” are my two favorite Garth songs so looking forward to the new one.
I think he is (still) the biggest- selling recording artist on the planet.?, pretty amazing. I never quite understood that (If still true). But a definite stand-up guy, and A+++ performer. I consider him the Country equivalent to The Boss in Rock for performing (or vice versa). Those guys put the others to shame, half their age, who state their concerts being 90 min. like they’re giving fans so much.
June 21, 2018 @ 7:30 am
Garth’s recent stuff just doesn’t have the melodies that stick in your head like his early stuff is the best way I can put it…………
I don’t know many artists besides George Strait who can put out songs like Unwound and 30 years later put out some of his best stuff as well (Troubadour comes to mind)…..