Jimmie Allen Reveals Third Album, Says It is “A Lot Extra Private”

by Cindy Watts

18h in the past

All the things is arising tulips for Jimmie Allen.

Allen, a New Artist nominee on the sixty fourth Grammy Awards who additionally introduced and carried out through the pre-telecast, revealed his third album, “Tulip Drive,” can be accessible Friday, June 24. He’s set to carry out the album’s lead single, “Down House,” tonight (April 4) on “The Late Late Present with James Corden” on CBS.

“It feels nice to be speaking concerning the third album,” Allen says. “Plenty of these songs are much more private. Plenty of my previous songs are about relationships. They weren’t about me. It’s simply relationships I noticed on TV, relationships I noticed my pals having, or tales I learn on-line. This album is a lot extra about me.”

Allen says he hasn’t heard too many “nation love-making songs,” so he included considered one of “Tulip Drive.” He explains that a few the songs are “very conventional nation.”

“It doesn’t matter what sort of nation you want, it is best to at the very least discover one track in there that you just love,” he says. “I actually obtained to take my time with this factor.”

Like his previous albums, Allen gave his third assortment a private identify. Whereas “Mercury Lane” was named for the road on which Allen grew up, “Bettie James” and “Bettie James Gold Version” have been named after his grandmother, Bettie Snead, and father, James “Large Jim” Allen. “Tulip Drive” is the identify of the road the place his late grandmother grew up.

“Plenty of the songs on this album are from that point interval,” Allen says in a press release. “I used to be in highschool and faculty at a spot the place I used to be simply studying a variety of life classes from my grandmother. I wished to honor her by naming this album ‘Tulip Drive,’ after the road she lived on in Lewes, DE.”

Allen lately celebrated his third No. 1 hit, “Freedom Was a Freeway,” which is a duet with Brad Paisley.