LAUDED SINGER / SONGWRITER DROPS FIRST NEW SONG
IN OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS TODAY
SET FOR A SERIES OF FESTIVAL STOPS IN CANADA THIS SUMMER
NASHVILLE, TENN. – For Songs & Daughters starlet Madison Kozak, the last two and a half years were an opportunity to dig deep. As a creative, her heart’s been sewn to her sleeve from the start, breaking out in 2019 with a detail-packed, self-penned tribute to her father in “First Last Name,” one of Brides‘ Songs to Walk Down the Aisle To and a ballad Taste of Country compared to Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me” “in all the right ways.”
Since that glinting moment, Kozak has taken a step inward, using nearly two full years of quarantine to look at who she is and what she has to say. “These last two years I spent a lot of time reflecting on where I’ve been, which is something I felt like I had to do before I could cast a vision of where I wanted to go next musically,” Kozak shares. The first taste of that reflection is “If We Were A Country Song,” available everywhere today.
Co-written by Kozak with GRAMMY-award winners Jon Randall (“Whiskey Lullaby,” “Tin Man,” The Marfa Tapes) and Gordie Sampson (“Jesus, Take The Wheel,” “Just A Dream,” “God, Your Mama, and Me”), and produced by Chris LaCorte, “If We Were A Country Song” waltzes to nostalgic instrumentation with poetic lyrics and a Nashville-style twist.
From the first stolen kiss
To the last broken heart
What a mess we made
But what a work of art
Would’ve gone all the way
To number one on the chart
If we were a country song
Down in the deep cuts
Where the steel guitar fades
That’s the part of our story
That couldn’t be saved
But damn we’d look good
In the heartbreak hall of fame
If we were a country song
“’If We Were A Country Song’ is traditional, vulnerable, romantic…we just started chasing this true, old-fashioned heartbreak ballad,” Kozak says. “With all the imagery, like classic country nods to vinyl and whiskey, Johnny and June, Dolly and Porter. When I close my eyes and listen to it, it puts me in Nashville in the ’60s. It’s classic, but it still feels true and fresh today. It’s everything I love about country music.”
To pair with the aching country ballad, Kozak also released the official music video for “If We Were A Country Song” directed by Justin Clough and captured in Thompson Station, Tenn. earlier this year. “We spent a day in a beautiful house south of Nashville bringing this song to life visually. I love the drama of this video – with the outfit and the piano and even the way Justin and his team shot it, it fits with the theme of the song so seamlessly. It’s a dream to see what they helped us create on screen.” Watch “If We Were A Country Song” here.
This summer, Kozak hits the road up north for a series of stops in Canada including sets at Boots and Hearts and Lasso Montreal. Stateside, Kozak will light up the Spotlight Stage at Nashville’s CMA Fest on June 10 as announced earlier this week.
“I feel extraordinarily grateful,” Kozak adds. “There’s more on the way that I’m so proud of. I just hope you love it as much as I do.”