{"id":15733,"date":"2021-08-12T05:45:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=15733"},"modified":"2021-08-12T04:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:15:48","slug":"chris-young-thanful-for-his-famous-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/08\/chris-young-thanful-for-his-famous-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Young Thanful For His &#8220;Famous Friends&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ADxMDBSQZg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Chris Young has released his latest album, Famous Friends, which is his eighth studio project.<\/p>\n<p>The title track and album&#8217;s first single, &#8220;Famous Friends,&#8221; featuring Kane Brown, has already topped the country charts.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 14 tracks, there are three collaborations, in addition to Chris&#8217; many longtime friends who are producers and\/or musicians who contributed to the album, and Chris said that&#8217;s why he titled the album as he did.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s more guest appearance than I&#8217;ve ever had on one project before that&#8217;s been a release for me, and then from producers to writers to players, there&#8217;s so many different people that got involved with this whether they&#8217;re well known to the outside world or whether they&#8217;re well known within the circle like Nashville, and that&#8217;s kind of a cool way to talk about this record. (It) really is a culmination of all the people that I&#8217;ve met and run into kind of putting their arms around this project and me putting my arms around them and huddling up and go, &#8216;Okay, let&#8217;s make some great music.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Famous Friends features the work of 20 songwriters, four producers, Chris included, plus background vocals from Sarah Buxton and Hillary Lindsey.<\/p>\n<p>Chris will hit the road on his Famous Friends tour beginning in October where he&#8217;ll be joined by Mitchell Tenpenny and Callista Clark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Young has released his latest album, Famous Friends, which is his eighth studio project.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[51,4143,3411],"class_list":["post-15733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chris-young","tag-famous-friends","tag-kane-brown"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 18:49:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/08\/chris-young-thanful-for-his-famous-friends\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}