Chart-topping country singer Kyle Park is set to release his fifth studio album, ‘The Blue Roof Sessions’ on October 23 via Thirty Tigers. Drawing from a dynamic mix of styles and influences (George Strait, Chris LeDoux, Clint Black, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard), the invigorated Park has added a jolt of rock ‘n roll intensity to this LP. The result is a milestone in his catalog – guitar-heavy tracks with a tougher edge that display raw, heartfelt, mainstream country music.

 ‘The Blue Roof Sessions’ was self-produced and features twelve blistery, country rock songs about love, life and all things in between.  For this aptly titled album, Park decided to take an organic approach and opted to not record the basic tracks in a traditional studio. Instead, Park and his studio band hunkered down in a (blue-roofed) house along the shores of Lake Travis (outside of Austin, TX). “Recording in the house, the idea was to go for an open feeling, something really big, with the drums very prevalent in the mix,” he explains. “It wasn’t about making a rockin’ album as much as making an album where the music comes first.”

There’s a swaggering Stones quality to “What Goes Around Comes Around” while thundering drums kick off “Drive You,” a desperate elegy to love lost. Meanwhile,  “I See Red” is power balladry at its finest. The power riffs, searing guitar and vocal breaks of “One of These Days” sprinkle dashes of Led Zeppelin, Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights and Audioslave to this Southern country/rock stew. Rounding out the album is a stellar cover of Billy Squier’s 1984 smash, “Rock Me Tonite.”

In the end, Park insists, “I think my voice makes ‘The Blue Roof Sessions’ country. No one can say it’s not me. But I’m changing too. The way I felt about music 10 years ago is not the way I feel now. I would have never put these songs on my first record. It would have been way too much of a risk. Now I'm more comfortable with who I am as a musician and as a fan of music. It would be easy for me to keep making the same record over and over and just have fiddle and steel -- a good, clean, nice traditional record. I'm not looking for shock factor, but I am looking to stand out amongst the crowd as far as pushing boundaries.”

Park is already garnering early praise for his first single “What Goes Around Comes Around.” Its music video recently premiered on CMT and Taste of Country, and was just added to rotation on GAC and ZUUS.
 Click here to check out the lyric video for “What Goes Around Comes Around” via Country Weekly.

‘The Blue Roof Sessions’ Track List

Come On
Never Slow Down
I See Red
One Of These Days
What Goes Around Comes Around
Like The Rain
Work On Love
Rock Me Tonite
I Lose, You Win
Drive You
The Last Word
Four Walls

About Kyle Park

Born and raised outside of Austin, Kyle Park started playing country venues when he was just 15. Since then, his singles have regularly settled in the Texas Music Chart’s Top 10, with his 2013 single “The Night Is Young” reaching No. 1. His Fall EP peaked at No. 1 in 2010 on the Billboard Heatseekers South Central list. He has also performed in Europe, and has opened for artists such as George Strait, The Band Perry, Gary Allan, Clint Black, Eli Young Band and other country headliners
 
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