{"id":35042,"date":"2023-06-06T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=35042"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:13:35","slug":"corey-kent-explains-the-name-of-his-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/06\/corey-kent-explains-the-name-of-his-debut-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Kent Explains The Name Of His Debut Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Kent decided to title his major label debut, Blacktop, as a nod to a previous job he held during the pandemic to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I started recording the songs that made up this record, the first two I recorded when I was still working at a pavement company in Dallas, Texas. The world was still kind of shut down and I had to do what I had to do to provide for my family. I had a wife and three kids, and music wasn\u2019t an option. So I went to work at this pavement company. And I\u2019m so thankful for the opportunity. I don\u2019t know what I would have done without it. And it\u2019s really just like a tribute to that season of my life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Corey&#8217;s Blacktop album was released last week. It features 10 tracks, including his debut chart-topping hit, \u201cWild As Her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later this summer, Corey will hit the road on Jason Aldean\u2019s Highway Desperado Tour.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CtHU7_fPkz-\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corey Kent decided to title his major label debut, Blacktop, as a nod to a previous job he held during the pandemic to make ends meet.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4758,4740,3860],"class_list":["post-35042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blacktop","tag-corey-kent","tag-wild-as-her"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 03:35:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/06\/corey-kent-explains-the-name-of-his-debut-album\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35045,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35042\/revisions\/35045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}