For Immediate Release<\/b><\/p>\n
September 8, 2020
\n<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Nashville country artist George Shingleton to release new single, \u201cHave a Good Time, on October 9th<\/strong><\/p>\n Full album coming later in 2020<\/p>\n Shingleton continues livestreaming every Tuesday night on Facebook Live<\/p>\n Nashville-based country singer-songwriter George Shingleton is set to release a new single, \u201cHave a Good Time,\u201d on October 9, 2020 via Rock Ridge Music. Produced by Dave Pahanish (who co-wrote #1 songs recorded by Jimmy Wayne, Toby Keith, and Keith Urban), \u201cHave a Good Time\u201d is a rollicking country\/Southern rock jam that feels like it would have been as at home on \u201970s radio as it will on streaming platforms in 2020.<\/p>\n Says Shingleton about the song: \u201cMy producer, Dave Pahanish, wrote \u2018Have a Good Time\u2019 with the Whiskey Myers guys a few years back. I’ve always been drawn to the song, and I think it fits me, so I was happy to have the opportunity to record it with Dave at his home studio, Panfish Studio. We definitely had a \u2018good time\u2019 recording it. The song is very fun-loving, so it was easy to relax and settle in on it. That makes a difference for me when recording, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to Shingleton, the song features Shane Sanders on lead guitar, Tom Bukovac on guitar (Hank Williams Jr., Willie Nelson, Keith Urban), Steve Mackey on bass (Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Peter Frampton), Jefferson Crow on keyboards (Gary Allan, Sturgill Simpson, Jamey Johnson), and Bradford Dobbs on drums.<\/p>\n \u201cHave a Good Time\u201d is the third single from Shingleton\u2019s forthcoming album,\u00a0Out All Nighter<\/em>, which is due out December 4, 2020. \u201cHave a Good Time\u201d follows on the heels of the second single, \u201cHandful of Hell,\u201d which was released in May, and the first single, \u201cFire or Flame,\u201d which was released in February. Shingleton\u2019s music, and \u201cHandful of Hell\u201d in particular, earned praise from\u00a0American Songwriter\u00a0<\/em>earlier this year, which called it: \u201c\u2026grittier\u2026 There\u2019s a lost honesty in country music like Shingleton\u2019s and that\u2019s on display in his newest song, \u2018Handful of Hell\u2019\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Shingleton also plans to get into the holiday spirit before his album drops with the release of a standalone holiday single, \u201cO Little Town of Bethlehem,\u201d on October 23, 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to this new album coming out,\u201d says Shingleton. \u201cI think it shows some growth from the debut album I released last year, and also still connects the two together. The songs on this one mean as much as the songs on the last one, maybe even a little more. Releasing new music can be stressful. You want to make sure people like what you\u2019re putting out, but also make sure it\u2019s what you are and where you\u2019re at. You want to make sure the honesty is there. I feel like we accomplished that this round.\u201d<\/p>\n Like all other touring artists, Shingleton\u2019s planned 2020 tour dates have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fans eager to see Shingleton perform can catch him livestreaming weekly on his\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0at 7:30 p.m. central time every Tuesday evening for his \u201cTuesday Night Tunes\u201d series.<\/p>\n A son of rural West Virginia, Shingleton was raised on traditional gospel music in small country churches. Music was in his paternal line, with many family members playing an amalgam of bluegrass and Appalachian \u201chill country\u201d music. Choir directors encouraged him from a young age to find his voice and let it fill the space between altars and spires, people and pews. That voice, it turns out, would also fill the hollers of the mountains. He spent more time outside than in, providing the soundtrack to crackling campfires and electrified stages, each performance pushing him closer and closer to realizing his sound.<\/p>\n As a teen, he fell in love with the sounds of Hank Williams Jr., Ronnie Van Zant, Gregg Allman, Waylon Jennings, and Merle Haggard, and his music was eventually informed by all of them, toeing the blurry lines between Americana, country, blues, Southern rock, and gospel. A lot of Shingleton\u2019s music has also been inspired by his wife, with many of his songs influenced by her presence in his life; she was the one who saw the potential in his playing and performing and encouraged him to go for it. \u201cShe saw the happiness and the light in me when I played,\u201d Shingleton explains, \u201cand that helped me see the light in myself.\u201d<\/p>\n The integrity of his stories and sound has earned him the respect of other artists, including Darryl Worley, John Michael Montgomery, Bucky Covington, Montgomery Gentry, Charlie Daniels, Bo Bice, and Keith Anderson, all of whom have invited him to share their stage.<\/p>\n George Shingleton is managed by Rock Ridge Music (Nashville, TN) and is booked by Paradigm Talent Agency.<\/p>\n