current single: “AFTER ALL THE BARS ARE CLOSED”

A lot of artists will tell you that the longer they’ve been in their career, the more they’ve figured out how to balance their home and their work life.  But Thomas Rhett says it’s actually gotten to be more challenging for him as his four daughters – who are nine, eight (on 8/12), five and three – have gotten older.

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“Obviously been blessed with an amazing family, blessed with being able to play shows and make music, but I think as my kids get older, it does become more challenging to do as much as I used to. I still try to keep up on social media, but at the same time, I do feel like when I am on social media a lot, then I’m neglecting something else, you know, and my kids will always take precedent over that stuff. But at the same time, you know my wife and my kids know that this is what I love and what I was born to do, and so I think it’s just more about balancing the time now than it is just doing it all the time. So, it’s like, in February I’m going to write three days a week for the whole month and then maybe in March I might just write once or twice. It’s just you gotta plan stuff out way in advance now, whereas used to I’d be like, I think I’m gonna write a song today with so-and-so. B ut I want to make sure that as my kids get older they know that they were always chosen first over career, over whatever. That’s just kind of dad that I want to be known for by them, for sure.”