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HARDY – COUNTRY! COUNTRY! – Target Exclusive Red Marbled Double Vinyl Record
COUNTRY! COUNTRY! finds HARDY placing the country half of his musical identity in the foreground without abandoning the heavy attack and blunt humor that have shaped his catalog. The twenty-song album moves through hunting cabins, small-town memories, romantic wreckage, faith, mortality, and the business of defining authenticity. Its title works as both declaration and joke: this is a deliberately country record, but one made by a writer who enjoys testing the genre’s familiar language from inside it.
The opening side states the case quickly. “Country Country” and “Favorite Country Song” celebrate recognizable sounds and settings while remaining self-aware about how those symbols are used. ERNEST joins “Bro Country,” letting two writers revisit a label that once defined a commercial era. “Luckiest Man Alive” changes the temperature with gratitude, and “Car That Drove You Away” turns an ordinary object into a container for loss, showing the detailed storytelling beneath the record’s loudest gestures.
Side two balances attitude with consequence. “Girl With a Gun” and “Buck on the Wall” draw on rural imagery, but the latter is rooted in family memory and the objects that preserve it. “I’d Go Crazy Too” pushes emotion toward the edge, while “Take the Country and Run” treats identity as something portable rather than a single address. “Goodbye” closes the side in a more reflective register, giving the double album room to breathe before its second half.
The third side opens with Stephen Wilson Jr. on “Bedrooms in the Sky,” a collaboration that connects grief with the imagined places where absent people remain. “Bottomland” returns to family land and outdoor tradition, followed by “Who Don’t,” “Country in Me,” and “Gun to My Head.” The sequence moves from communal recognition to personal insistence, and HARDY’s grainy delivery keeps the songs tied together even when the arrangements range from acoustic restraint to dense modern-country impact.
Side four completes the album with “Keep It Country,” the faith-centered “Y’all Need Jesus,” and the aging-dog meditation “Dog Years.” “We’re All Gonna Die” meets mortality with rowdy perspective before “Everybody Does” offers the final statement. Across all four sides, HARDY’s songwriting combines plainspoken hooks with structural craft. Guests are used selectively, while the larger focus remains on his ability to make irreverence, sincerity, aggression, and sentiment belong to the same voice.
Big Loud Records released COUNTRY! COUNTRY! on September 26, 2025. This Target-exclusive edition presses the complete twenty-track album across two red marbled vinyl records, giving the package a distinct visual identity from standard and store-exclusive variants. Its UPC identifies this specific configuration. The physical sequence preserves the album’s four-side pacing and provides a substantial modern-country set for listeners following HARDY’s movement between Nashville songwriting, arena rock weight, and autobiographical rural detail.
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