Lee Kernaghan releases new album Backroad Nation

LEE KERNAGHAN RELEASES EPIC NEW ALBUM

BACKROAD NATION

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Thirty-seven-time Golden Guitar winner, Lee Kernaghan, has released his fifteenth studio album. The highly anticipated album, Backroad Nation, was produced by Grammy nominated producer and songwriter Lindsay Rimes (Kane Brown, Kylie Minogue. LoCash) and is released through ABC Music/UMA. 

Lee said, “Backroad Nation is about feeling that good vibration when you get off the beaten track and the country wraps itself around you. I’m so excited to be bringing out this new music”

"A lot of miles and a lot of living has gone into every song. I've travelled from Alice Springs to the Deni Ute Muster, from the mighty Pilbara to backroads QLD and everywhere in between turning those experiences into songs.”

Release Date: 10 May 2019

Label: Australian Broadcasting Corp

12 Tracks/ Time: 37:53

Debut #21 UK Country iTunes Album Chart, then #35

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The music video for Backroad Nation was filmed at Trilby Station via Louth on the banks of the Darling River in Outback NSW.  “It was an epic location, bone-dry though, because they hadn’t seen any decent rain since 2016. It breaks your heart to see how desperate things can get on the land but the good news is that a couple of days after we finished the shoot, it bucketed down, the dams filled up and the river began to flow”.

Published on May 2, 2019 watch Lee Kernaghan - Backroad Nation (Official Music Video) Lee Kernaghan / Colin Buchanan / Garth Porter / Lindsay Rimes / Phil Barton (Universal Music Publishing / Perfect Pitch Publishing / EMI Blackwood Music

Coinciding with the release of his new album, Lee has also announced The Backroad Nation Tour which will kick off on May 11 and see him playing 48 concert events, Australia-wide, throughout 2019.

Lee said, "It’s awesome getting to play live across Australia and I’ll be forever grateful to every person who comes out each night to see the show. They’re the reason I sing my songs, that’s where the music comes from.”

Multi Golden Guitar winners, The Wolfe Brothers, are set to join Lee for the national tour along with CMC Female Artist of the Year Christie Lamb. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.

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Lee Kernaghan - Backroad Nation

1. Backroad Nation - Lee Kernaghan, Lindsay Rimes, Phil Barton, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan

2. Waiting On A Mate - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan

3. Take It Down A Backroad - Lee Kernaghan, Lindsay Rimes, Phil Barton

4. Watching Lightning - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan

5. Round Here - Lee Kernaghan, Phil Barton, Bruce Wallace 

6. Where I Wanna Be - (With Robby X) Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan, Nick Wolfe, Robby X, Lindsay Rimes

7. Live To Ride - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan

8. Wheels - Lee Kernaghan, Lindsay Rimes, Phil Barton

9. The Trucks Came Through - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan

10. Let There Be Cowgirls - Lee Kernaghan, Nick Wolfe, Phil Barton

11. Keep On Truckin’ - Lee Kernaghan, Garth Porter, Colin Buchanan

12. Till It Ends (With the Wolfe Brothers) - Lee Kernaghan, Phil Barton, Nick Wolfe

ABOUT LEE KERNAGHAN

Since the release of his mega hit, Boys From The Bush, Lee Kernaghan has scored a ute load of hits with songs like The Outback Club, Hat Town, Planet Country, She's My Ute, Flying With The King, Australian Boy and Spirit Of The ANZACS - the highest selling Australian album (all genres) of 2015.

Lee has sold over 2 million albums in Australia and notched up 38 number 1 hits on the Australian Country Charts. He has won 37 Golden Guitar Awards, 4 ARIA Awards and was a recipient of the ARIA Outstanding Achievement Award in 2015. He has been named Hit Maker Of The Decade twice for scoring more chart hits in Australia than any other country music artist in the world (2001/2011) and has been awarded America’s Country Music Association Award for Global Artist Of The Year.

In 2017, Lee celebrated the Silver Anniversary of his ARIA award winning debut album, Outback Club and was inducted into the CMC Hall Of Fame and the Australian Country Music Roll Of Renown. In 2018 Lee’s 25th Anniversary Album was awarded CMC/ARIA Highest Selling Album of the Year.

Kernaghan’s fundraising tours have raised millions of dollars for community causes throughout Australia and he was named 2008 Australian of the Year for his service to outback and regional communities.

Iconic hat maker Akubra manufacture the Lee Kernaghan signature Outback Club hat in recognition of his deep connection to the bush. Lee currently hosts Australia’s biggest nationally syndicated country music radio show - The Range.