Thomas Rhett’s debut album, It Goes Like This, will be out this Tuesday, featuring the title track, which is his first #1 song, plus his first two singles, “Beer with Jesus” and “Something to Do with My Hands.” Those three songs are so different from one another, but Thomas explains, “This record has been recorded over a two-year period of time and a lot has changed in my life in two years. So the way that I wrote two years ago, compared to the way that I write today is really different.” But he says, “There’s always that Thomas Rhett factor about every—I mean you can go back and listen to my horrible, horrible demos that I did when I was nineteen years old and then listen to the record today and yeah I promise you will still see the cohesiveness.”
Thomas is proud that his debut album has something for everybody. “Whether you’re more into the traditional side of country or the new kind of trend of country or the rock inside of country, there’s a little bit of everything on there.” That variety is indicative of what people will get when they come to see Thomas play live. “I love getting on stage and doing random rock-n-roll covers or pop covers or hip hop covers and still make ‘em country and still make ‘em me,” he says. The album is also representative of his live show because of the way it’s sequenced. “Instead of putting all the rockers together in a clump and all the slow songs together in a clump, and all the mids in a clump, we kinda did it how we do our show. We start off rocking and we kinda don’t let you sit for five songs. Then we’ll let you sit for maybe one song and then you gotta stand back up again.” He says he did it that way so that if you put the album in, whether you’re in your car or at home, “(You can) close your eyes and pretend that you’re looking at a stage and watching us play live and then hopefully you get that same experience when you really do see us live.”
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Thomas Rhett – album like live show :35
“The way that we sequenced it is a lot similar to the way that we sequence our live show. We kinda wanted to make our album sequence like a set list. Instead of putting all the rockers together in a clump and all the slow songs together in a clump, and all the mids in a clump, we kinda did it how we do our show; we start off rocking and we kinda don’t let you sit for five songs. Then we’ll let you sit for maybe one song and then you gotta stand back up again. And that’s kinda how the record—it’s sequenced in a way that you can put it in your car and close your eyes and pretend that you’re looking at a stage and watching us play live and then hopefully you get that same experience when you really do see us live.”
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Thomas Rhett – sum up new album :49
“Those three songs are very different, as they should be. This record has been recorded over a two-year period of time and a lot has changed in my life in two years. So the way that I wrote two years ago, compared to the way that I write today is really different. But there’s always that Thomas Rhett factor about every—I mean you can go back and listen to my horrible, horrible demos that I did when I was nineteen years old and then listen to the record today and yeah I promise you will still see the cohesiveness. That’s the coolest thing. I think that there’s something for everyone on this record, whether you’re more into the traditional side of country or the new kind of trend of country or the rock inside of country. There’s a little bit of everything on there. I want everybody to think that I can kinda pull anything off. I love getting on stage and doing random rock-n-roll covers or pop covers or hip hop covers and still make ‘em country and still make ‘em me. To where if you go to a show you’re not surprised that’s what we’re doing.”