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October 15, 2020
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Nashville country artist George Shingleton to release new album,\u00a0Out All Nighter<\/em>, on December 4th\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shingleton continues livestreaming every Tuesday night on Facebook Live<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nashville-based country singer-songwriter George Shingleton is set to release a new album,\u00a0Out All Nighter<\/em>, on December 4, 2020 via Rock Ridge Music. In order to provide the rightful, righteous soundtrack to grappling with one\u2019s inner demons, Shingleton has been able to wrangle his own internal good vs. evil wrestling match into a number of heartfelt songs that are infused with his patented lived-in, whiskey-tinged vocals. Produced by Dave Pahanish (who has co-written #1 singles by the likes of Jimmy Wayne, Toby Keith, and Keith Urban),\u00a0Out All Nighter\u00a0<\/em>offers eight gutbucket country songs charged with chronicling the aforementioned daily interpersonal push-pulls between sin and redemption.<\/p>\n Bear witness to the confessional, pleading twang of \u201cHandful of Hell,\u201d the barrelhouse ramble of \u201cHave a Good Time\u201d (complete with a raucous honky-tonk chorus in its back half), and the album-ending, tender commitment of \u201cI\u2019m Gonna Be Your Man.\u201d Each song contained on\u00a0Out All Nighter\u00a0<\/em>builds on the promise of a gifted songwriter now fully coming into his own as a recording and performing artist.<\/p>\n \u201cI just want people to know I\u2019m real and I\u2019m true,\u201d Shingleton says of\u00a0Out All Nighter<\/em>. \u201cThese are the best eight songs I have to offer. Working on them with Dave Pahanish, who\u2019s one of my oldest, closest friends in Nashville, helped make every song better. I think we showed some real growth on this new album. We made plenty of forward progress, but it all still ties together with what I did on my first album.\u201d<\/p>\n The aforementioned \u201cHave a Good Time\u201d was just released on October 9, 2020; it\u2019s the third single from\u00a0Out All Nighter<\/em>. \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\u00a0Cowboys & Indians<\/em>\u00a0lauded \u201cHave a Good Time,\u201d writing: \u201c\u2018Have a Good Time\u2019 is the kind of great I need right now. Keeping this song pounding out of my\u2026 speakers\u2026 is probably the best I\u2019ll feel all day. This might be the medicine you need right about now, too.\u201d<\/p>\n 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 Born and bred in rural West Virginia, Shingleton\u2019s Appalachian extended family ties run deep; music-making has been in Shingleton\u2019s blood, quite literally, from his early days of singing and playing instruments in the church, surrounded by multiple generations of family at his side as he ascended to taking vocal solos in the youth choir. Beyond his sacred, sanctuary-nurtured musical roots, Shingleton\u2019s influences run the gamut from Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard, and Waylon Jennings, to Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band.<\/p>\n Though he began strumming guitars at age 12, Shingleton didn\u2019t begin writing songs seriously until he was almost 30, doubling down on his craft once he moved to Nashville from West Virginia to pursue his dream fulltime. Shingleton\u2019s main muse continues to be his wife, who gave him the initial nudge to take that giant leap of songwriting faith. \u201cShe\u2019s the creative force in all this anyway,\u201d he says. \u201cShe\u2019s my biggest muse for a lot of the songs I write between the love songs, and the redemption songs. She just provides it all.\u201d<\/p>\n Keeping things real is Shingleton\u2019s core goal at all times. \u201cI just want to be authentic,\u201d he concludes. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll keep putting the music in a spot where everybody can relate to it. I think that as long as people see how real I am, they\u2019ll feel that authenticity. I\u2019d much rather write songs that don\u2019t always have the same three or four chords backed with a drum loop. Every song doesn\u2019t need to sound the same.\u201d<\/p>\n With Shingleton\u2019s music toeing the blurry lines between Americana, country, blues, Southern rock, and gospel, it\u2019s 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 Once the green light is given, Shingleton can\u2019t wait to head out on tour and take\u00a0Out All Nighter\u00a0<\/em>out on the road. \u201cI just want to be playing my music for people,\u201d he asserts. Where safety protocols are being followed, occasional in-person shows have started to creep back into his schedule. He is set to take the stage at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville with labelmate Victoria Bailey on October 28, 2020.\u00a0Fans eager to see Shingleton perform now 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 George Shingleton is managed by Rock Ridge Music (Nashville, TN) and is booked by Paradigm Talent Agency.<\/p>\n