HOYT HUGHES–Emerging Country Artist–Partners With Digitalrodeo.Com To Premiere Video For “Let It Rain”

October 5, 2016 Infrared Magazine Music News, Press Releases Comments Off

DT: OCTOBER 5, 2016

FM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/MIKE GOWEN

(MSO PR LOS ANGELES)

LYNDIE WENNER

(MSO PR NASHVILLE)

HOYT HUGHES

—COUNTRY SINGER, SONGWRITER AND GUITARIST–

PARTNERS WITH DIGITALRODEO.COM TO PREMIERE VIDEO FOR

“LET IT RAIN”

LEAD SINGLE OFF NEWLY RELEASED FULL-LENGTH DEBUT ALBUM

‘COWBOY’

VIA COWBOY RECORDS

Above: Hoyt Hughes

Emerging country singer, songwriter and guitarist HOYT HUGHES yesterday (10/4) partnered with DigitalRodeo.com to premiere the video for “Let It Rain,” the lead single off his newly released full-length debut album COWBOY. Click here to watch the “Let It Rain” video. COWBOY-released September 9 via Cowboy Records, a division of Los Angeles-based Emmy Award-winning Production Partners, Inc.-is available digitally via iTunes here and Amazon here. “A good friend of mine loved a woman that was in an abusive relationship,” says HOYT of the inspiration to write “Let It Rain.” “He was hoping one day she would see the light and maybe leave that guy…and give him a chance.”

The 16-track COWBOY album, produced by multi-platinum and award-winning producer Kevin Savigar (Rod Stewart, Jo Dee Messina, Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp), spotlights HOYT’S musical sound–a mix of country styles from the ’90s through now, with a traditionalist feel. The album features special vocal collaborations with Taylor Dayne, Carnie Wilson, and Fisher with songs solely written or co-written by HOYT in addition to songs penned by notable songwriters Bob DiPiero, Troy Jones and Natalie Hemby, among others. With his roots planted in Lakeland, Florida, HOYT also splits his time between Los Angeles and Nashville; drastically different cities which parallel his diverse musical tastes. HOYT’S musical influences include: Don Williams, George Jones, Beatles, Keith Urban, Elvis, Chris Stapleton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

“You know life is truly a gift,” explains HOYT. “Just a few months ago I was working at a power plant and then it seems, just like that through Grace, Production Partners, Kevin Savigar and Cowboy Records decide to gift me the chance of a lifetime! The kind of chance that movies are made of, and now we have a 16-song album and 10 of those are originals! It’s a surreal moment.”

“When we first heard Hoyt’s music we felt lightning bolts hit four lines into the song,” says Cowboy Records’ Sandy Chanley. “Our first question was why he isn’t a recording star already and why is it our luck to have the opportunity to sign him to our TV company for a development deal?”

Track listing for COWBOY:

“Let It Rain” (Hoyt Hughes, Ray Barnette)

“Stop Right There” (Hoyt Hughes)

“Every Kinda Way” (Hoyt Hughes)

“Surrender” feat. Taylor Dayne (Taylor Dayne, Bob DiPiero, Marv Green)

“Raise The Roof” (Bill Aerts, Scott Lynch)

“More Country Than You” (Hoyt Hughes, Sandy Chanley)

“Red White Blue” (Hoyt Hughes, Travis Hughes)

“Smash It” (Hoyt Hughes, Sandy Chanley)

“California High” (Hoyt Hughes, Sandy Chanley)

“All Good In The Woods” feat. FISHER (Benjamin Curtis Carter, Justin Michael Weaver, Kelly Archer)

“Give In To Me” feat. Carnie Wilson (Billy Falcon, Rose Falcon, Michael Elisha Hoffman)