Travis Denning’s “Southern Rock” tune video stars his just right good friend and fellow nation singer HARDY.The pair first labored in combination within the studio in 2017 and feature been nice pals ever since. Denning’s debut album, Roads That Move Nowhere, is out Friday.
Travis Denning, at his core, is a man from Georgia who fell in love with nation tune and desires to have a great time with pals like HARDY.
On Thursday, Would possibly 23, PEOPLE is completely debuting the tune video for Denning’s tune “Southern Rock,” which can be featured on his debut album Roads That Move Nowhere, out Friday.
“I were given to do each and every superior stunt using second on this tune video, that used to be your boy in the back of the wheel,” Denning, 31, tells PEOPLE completely of the tune video. “I’m hoping they’d insurance coverage in this video. It were given slightly wild a couple of instances.”
HARDY and Travis Denning.
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On operating with HARDY, who Denning will pass at the highway with this summer time, the rustic celebrity says he beloved observing his “nice good friend” get to paintings.
“He is the sort of professional. It is so obtrusive that he is so relaxed in his personal footwear and it’s tremendous cool to look at,” the “Name It Nation” singer says.
Within the tune video, Denning imagines himself driving in a ’68 mustang and alternatives up HARDY alongside the best way. In combination, they bond over their mutual love for southern rock and so they velocity down a highway within the vintage automotive. After all, he wakes up from his daydream and HARDY asks him to play “some actual southern rock.”
“It is so nice. It is so humorous. We needed to do it 4 or 5 takes for the reason that first two, we simply could not take every different severely. We had been giggling an excessive amount of,” he says.
HARDY and Travis Denning.
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Denning and HARDY’s friendship is going past paintings. The pair first were given in combination within the studio in 2017 for a writing consultation and they have got been “pals ever since.”
“When him and Caleigh began relationship, I feel me and Madison began relationship in a while after them. Madison and Caleigh had been pals, and so it used to be simply solidified the whole thing,” the “Purchase a Woman a Drink” singer says. “We spent numerous time in combination over COVID. I be mindful when ‘After a Few’ went No. 1, we went out at the boat celebrated. They had been there for slightly wonder celebration for me and they have got simply at all times been nice pals to each me and my spouse.”
“Southern Rock” is a tune that Denning wrote in 2016 and it simply “poured out” of him because it tells the tale of “the place I come from” and it represents “who I’m.” After the tune used to be written, it used to be shelved as it simply wasn’t the fitting time.
“I went again and listened to it. And for me it used to be a, ‘Why the hell no longer?’ It is time. I am creating a complete period file. This file’s about in point of fact shedding it at the floor of who I’m and this tune is the nearest to a 3 minute, thirty-second autobiography that I will be able to write,” he says.
Travis Denning.
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He continues, “I am very thankful I waited as a result of I do not believe I might’ve minimize it the best way I did if I might minimize it tremendous early in my profession. Every now and then just right issues take some time, and I am very grateful that this did.”
And despite the fact that Roads That Move Nowhere is Denning’s debut album, it is under no circumstances his first rodeo (he launched an EP in 2021 known as Grime Street Down and 2023’s Would possibly As Smartly Be Me). Moderately, his likelihood to inform his complete tale.
“The tale is an image into my existence and the roads that went nowhere that I went down, and the roads that went someplace that I am nonetheless on. I knew once I wrote that tune that used to be it going to be the theme,” he says. So whether or not it used to be existence, love, heartbreak, happiness, marriage, the place I come from, all the ones corners of existence, I sought after to percentage all of the ones that I were down. It is very reflective.”
He continues, “I have discovered that that’s not unique to being a singer. I feel it is for anyone pursuing the issues they love.”
