Jordan Davis has a new album coming out in 2023. The Louisiana native announces his sophomore Bluebird Days album will be released on February 17. The record will include his recent No. 1 hit, “Buy Dirt,” a collaboration with Luke Bryan, which just earned Davis the CMA Award for Song of the Year. The song is one of several tracks on the new record that Davis says are very, very personal to him, and not necessarily what his fans might expect.
“We didn’t want to sit down and re-write another ‘Buy Dirt.,'” he tells CMT. “We have new sounds on it [the album] and pushed the production. We just approached songwriting differently. It felt like a new chapter was started.”
It was songwriting that inspired Davis to move to Nashville. After years of trying to write the perfect commercial song, the success of “Buy Dirt” forever changed how Davis approaches music.
“‘Buy Dirt’ was kind of a catalyst into writing more songs,” Davis reflected backstage after his CMA Awards win. “I think early on it was [to write] what was catchy, what was hitting, and what was uptempo. To where now songs like ‘Buy Dirt’ made me realize that writing from your heart, writing honest, that’s truly what impacts people. And I think as a songwriter and as an artist, we want to impact the fan. This song has 100 percent helped me evolve into the artist that I want to become.”
In fact, it’s the record’s title track that touches on one of the most personal — and most painful — seasons of his life, when his parents got divorced. Like “Buy Dirt,” Davis penned “Bluebird Days” with his brother, Jacob.
“He’s on this one with me,” Davis reveals. “He was kind of shocked that I wanted to go there that day. He was like, ‘Man, are we really gonna do this?’ I was like, ‘Yeah…you know we’re not the only ones with divorced parents.’ I want this record to explain where I’m at and who I am. My wife comes from a divorced family. So, we got four families we have to see. Holidays can get kind of tough.”
Davis’ freshman Home State album came out in 2018. Since then, the 34-year-old has had a string of hits, including “Slow Dance in a Parking Lot,” and his current Top 15 hit, “What My World Spins Around.” As Davis evolves and changes in his own life, he hopes to continue to share those changes in his music as well.
“I think one of the things that I’ve always wanted to do as an artist is to grow and have my fans grow with me,” Davis acknowledges. “I kind of look back on old songs like ‘Singles You Up’ and ‘Take It From Me.’ I wrote those as a single guy and just living. Now, I have two kids…I want my fans to know this is where I am at in my life,”
Pre-order Bluebird Days here.
