Austin Brown has a new song out, this one celebrating his relationship with his wife, Amberly. The Home Free singer just released “Waking Up With With an Angel,” giving fans a glimpse into the couple’s sweet love story.
The song, which says in part, “I used to sleep with my demons but now I know what Heaven’s like / Her hearts beating and I’m grateful / I’m waking up with an angel,” is Brown’s heart on his sleeve, and explains part of his decision to leave Home Free.
“Life is beautiful, life is long,” Brown recently told Everything Nash. “We all go through seasons. And for me, it’s a new chapter. It’s a turning of a page. I’m always going to be in Home Free in my heart. And I’m just excited. I’ve got an incredible wife. I want to be home. I want to figure out a way to not be on the road as much these days. I’ve loved it for a decade, and then one day I just realized that I think it’s time for me to slow down.”
Brown and Amberly were friends first, before their relationship turned romantic.
“We became friends, and we were just casual friends. She friend-zoned me for a long time,” Brown told Everything Nash with a laugh. “And then, turns out, we friend-zoned each other. And then three or four years ago, COVID started, and we came home.”
“He invited me over to go fishing, and then kissed me over the fishing pole,” Amberly added. “And we’ve been together ever since. Yes, it was magical. We still fish together. We have a YouTube channel that we kind of do that on now too.”
The couple will have more opportunities to work on their own projects once Home Free wraps up their Crazy(er) Life Tour, which will be Brown’s final tour. Amberly will also continue to serve as the muse for Brown’s career as a solo artist.
“She runs our business, and she is the face of my music,” Brown shared. “Literally I put her as the cover art for one of our recent singles. I don’t enjoy self-promotion, but when I’m promoting us it feels like something so much more. Getting to put her front and center of what I do — ’cause all the music that I write is about her, it’s about our walk together — and seeing other people resonate with that makes me want to do it more.
“And getting to celebrate her online, that’s my life purpose at this point,” he continued. “I just want to make more content with her, ’cause it’s so much fun. And we’ve worked together so well that I don’t know how I’ve ever been doing anything else before.”
Brown still has a lot more music to make with Home Free before they continue on without him.
“We still got a lot more to do here,” Brown said earlier this year. “We still have so much music to make. We’ve got at least six more months of me being around at least. And it feels like we still have the Super Bowl in front of us. I’m so focused on just being here and present with my boys. I love these guys so much, and I’m just grateful for the time we had together. And, I’m looking forward to seeing where life takes me, and where life takes these guys. We’re friends at the end of the day, always will be. I’m just excited for the next chapter for all of us.”
Listen to “Waking Up With an Angel” here, and download or stream it here. Find all of Brown’s music at AustinBrownMusic.com.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of CMA / Katie Kauss
