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Longneck Way to Go

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"Longneck Way to Go"
Longneck Way To Go.jpg
Single by Midland featuring Jon Pardi
from the album The Last Resort: Greetings From and Mr. Saturday Night
ReleasedApril 22, 2022 (2022-04-22)
StudioBlackbird Studio, Nashville
GenreCountry
Length3:08
LabelBig Machine
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Midland featuring Jon Pardi singles chronology
"Sunrise Tells the Story"
(2021) 		"Longneck Way to Go"
(2022)
Jon Pardi singles chronology
"Last Night Lonely"
(2022) 		"Longneck Way To Go"
(2022) 		"Your Heart or Mine"
(2022)
Music video
"Longneck Way to Go" on YouTube

"Longneck Way to Go" is a song recorded by American country music band Midland featuring fellow neotraditional country artist Jon Pardi. It is the second single from their third studio album The Last Resort: Greetings From and is also included in the track list of Pardi's fourth album Mr. Saturday Night. The single was released to country radio on April 22, 2022.[1] The band wrote the song with Ashley Gorley and Rhett Akins. The song was nominated for Musical Event of the Year and Video of the Year at the 56th Country Music Association Awards.[2]

To promote the song, Midland performed it with Pardi on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on October 14, 2022.[3]

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Country music

Country music

Country is a music genre originating in the Southern and Southwestern United States. First produced in the 1920s, country primarily focuses on working class Americans and blue-collar American life.

Midland (band)

Midland (band)

Midland is an American country music group formed in 2014 in Dripping Springs, Texas. The band members are Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy. Through Big Machine Records, the band has released two EPs, their self-titled EP and The Last Resort. They have released three studio albums, On the Rocks, Let It Roll and The Last Resort: Greetings From, which have accounted for seven charted singles on the Billboard country chart: "Drinkin' Problem", Burn Out", "Make a Little", "Mr. Lonely", "Cheatin' Songs", "Sunrise Tells the Story" and "Longneck Way to Go". Midland's musical style is known as neotraditional country.

Neotraditional country

Neotraditional country

Neotraditional country is a country music style that emphasizes the instrumental background and a traditional country vocal style. Neo-traditional country artists often dress in the fashions of the country music scene of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Randy Travis, and Toby Keith are commonly associated with this style of music. Western music performers of neotraditional style music often emphasize their heritage genres, examples include those associated with the late Al Hurricane in New Mexico music, and modern honky-tonk bands like Midland in the Texas country music scene.

Jon Pardi

Jon Pardi

Jonathan Ryan Pardi is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Capitol Nashville, he has released four studio albums: Write You a Song (2014), California Sunrise (2016), Heartache Medication (2019), and Mr. Saturday Night (2022). Pardi has also charted fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, of which four have hit number one on the latter: "Head Over Boots", "Dirt on My Boots", "Heartache Medication" and "Last Night Lonely". Pardi's music style is defined by neotraditional country influences.

The Last Resort: Greetings From

The Last Resort: Greetings From

The Last Resort: Greetings From is the third studio album by American country music group Midland. An expansion of their 2021 extended play The Last Resort, the album is their first since 2018's Let It Roll and was released on May 6, 2022, via Big Machine Records. Produced by Midland's longtime team of Shane McAnally, Dan Huff and Josh Osborne, the album was preceded by the singles "Sunrise Tells the Story" and "Longneck Way to Go", which features Jon Pardi.

Mr. Saturday Night (album)

Mr. Saturday Night (album)

Mr. Saturday Night is the fourth studio album by American neotraditional country artist Jon Pardi. The album was released on September 2, 2022, via Capitol Nashville. Pardi co-produced the album with Bart Butler and Ryan Gore, who he worked with on his previous release Heartache Medication in 2019.

Ashley Gorley

Ashley Gorley

Ashley Glenn Gorley is an American songwriter, publisher, and producer from Danville, Kentucky, who is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Gorley has written 60 number 1 songs and has over 300 songs recorded by artists including Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Bon Jovi, Thomas Rhett, Jason Derulo, Kelsea Ballerini, Morgan Wallen and Dan + Shay.

Rhett Akins

Rhett Akins

Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for that label, followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment. Overall, his albums have accounted for fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, including the number one "Don't Get Me Started" from 1996.

Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year

Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year

The Country Music Association Awards is a major awards show in country music. Originally presented in 1988 as the Vocal Event of the Year Award, the Musical Event of the Year honor received its current name in 2004. The award recognizes a collaboration of two or more people, either or all of whom are known primarily as country artists.

Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year

Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year

The Country Music Association Awards is a major awards show in country music. Formerly known as the Music Video of the Year Award, Video of the Year was originally presented at the 1985 Country Music Association Awards. The category honours excellence in country music videos that have been released during the eligibility years and is awarded to both the artist and the director. Below are the winners and nominees of the award.

56th Annual Country Music Association Awards

56th Annual Country Music Association Awards

The 56th Annual Country Music Association Awards was held on November 9, 2022 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Luke Bryan hosted the ceremony for the second time, with Peyton Manning as his co-host. The ceremony was broadcast live on ABC and will be available to stream on Hulu.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night news and liberal political satire talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, broadcast on ABC. The nightly hour-long show debuted on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California, as part of ABC's lead-out programming for Super Bowl XXXVII. Jimmy Kimmel Live! is produced by Kimmelot in association with ABC Signature. It holds the title as the longest running late-night talk show on the network, having aired for more than three times as long as either The Dick Cavett Show (1969–1975) or Politically Incorrect (1997–2002).

Content

Prior to the announcement of the single, the band began teasing a collaboration with Pardi by posting images of them on social media at a bowling alley.[4]

The song is about using alcohol as a way to get over a breakup, with the narrator stating that, despite the bar nearing closing time, he still has a "longneck way to go" before he is over his ex. It was written in 2020 over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed from an idea by co-writer Ashley Gorley, who already had the title and a loose concept for the song in one of his notebooks. Rhett Akins then wrote almost the entire song after hearing the title, noting that the word "longneck" prompted him to set the song in a bar, and that he used an unconventional structure by including a bridge before the second chorus, and that the band needed to do a bit of reworking to make the song fit their sound.

In an interview with Billboard, band member Jess Carson explained that, when the band recorded the song on August 17, 2021, with producers Shane McAnally, Dan Huff and Josh Osborne, they worked hard to differentiate it from their previous singles "Make a Little" and "Mr. Lonely" by playing around with the beats and tempo. In the same interview, band member Cameron Duddy likened the vocal harmonies in the song to the sound of Crosby Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne and the Eagles, explaining “stuff with long vowels — that’s primetime for country music harmony. ‘Longneck Way To Go’ has got a few of those, so it’s easy to kind of imagine what it would be like as soon as you got into the studio, cutting harmonies. And that’s right there in our sweet spot.” Carson added that steel guitarist Paul Franklin used a distortion pedal similar to one used by David Lindley, one of Browne's sidemen, that they chose to use an instrumental fadeout akin to the Eagles "Take It Easy" and Browne's "Running on Empty" and that Ilya Toshinskiy's banjo parts in the song are deliberately reminiscent of song of the Eagles' country recordings.[5]

Pardi recorded his version separately and allowed the producers to choose the sections that worked best. Of Pardi's addition to the song, Midland's least vocalist Mark Wystrach stated “when we heard Jon’s part, it was a treat — competitive, in one way or another. Jon was like, ‘All right, motherf–kers.’ I think he gave one of his best vocal performances.”

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Ashley Gorley

Ashley Gorley

Ashley Glenn Gorley is an American songwriter, publisher, and producer from Danville, Kentucky, who is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Gorley has written 60 number 1 songs and has over 300 songs recorded by artists including Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Bon Jovi, Thomas Rhett, Jason Derulo, Kelsea Ballerini, Morgan Wallen and Dan + Shay.

Rhett Akins

Rhett Akins

Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for that label, followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment. Overall, his albums have accounted for fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs, including the number one "Don't Get Me Started" from 1996.

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne is an American songwriter with several number-one singles to his credit.

Make a Little

Make a Little

"Make a Little" is a song recorded by American country music band Midland. It was released on September 25, 2017, as the second single from their debut album On the Rocks. The band members wrote the song with Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally, the latter of whom also produced it.

Mr. Lonely (Midland song)

Mr. Lonely (Midland song)

"Mr. Lonely" is a song performed by the American country music band Midland. It is the lead single to their second studio album Let It Roll. The band wrote the song with Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally.

Jackson Browne

Jackson Browne

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Eagles (band)

Eagles (band)

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Paul Franklin (musician)

Paul Franklin (musician)

Paul V. Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Vince Gill, Mel Tillis, Jerry Reed and Dire Straits. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville, playing on more than 500 albums. He has been named by the Academy of Country Music as Best Steel Guitarist on several occasions. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019. With thirty, Franklin is the most nominated person in CMA history and is notable for having been nominated for the Country Music Association Award for Musician of the Year twenty nine times but has yet to win.

David Lindley (musician)

David Lindley (musician)

David Perry Lindley was an American musician who founded the rock band El Rayo-X and worked with many other performers including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Warren Zevon, Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton. He mastered such a wide variety of instruments that Acoustic Guitar magazine referred to him not as a multi-instrumentalist but instead as a "maxi-instrumentalist." On stage, Lindley was known for wearing garishly colored polyester shirts with clashing pants, gaining the nickname the Prince of Polyester.

Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach is an American country music musician and actor. He is the lead singer of the country band Midland.

Music video

The music video was released on May 2, 2022, and was filmed at Nashville's Eastside Bowl by director Harper Smith. Discussing the process, Wystrach stated “it was a genuine party, and literally Harper just yelling that we have to get these shots done. The video itself was just kind of an inconvenience in the midst of this party.”

Charts

Chart performance for "Longneck Way to Go"
Chart (2020) Peak
position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)[6] 52

Source: "Longneck Way to Go", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 21st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longneck_Way_to_Go.

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Further Reading

Thomas Rhett

Jon Pardi

California Sunrise

Dirt on My Boots

Midland (band)

Unforgettable (Thomas Rhett song)

Make a Little

Life Changes (Thomas Rhett song)

I Lived It

Reboot (Brooks & Dunn album)

Center Point Road

Beer Can't Fix

Cameron Duddy

What's Your Country Song

Tequila Little Time

Slow Down Summer

Mr. Saturday Night (album)

The Last Resort: Greetings From
References
  1. ^ "Midland Release New Single 'Longneck Way to Go' Feat. Jon Pardi". April 25, 2022.
  2. ^ KIK (September 7, 2022). "Lainey Wilson leads 56th CMA Awards noms; Chris Stapleton, Carly Pearce & Ashley McBryde not far behind". KIK-FM 100.7. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Midland and Jon Pardi Sing Twangy 'Longneck Way to Go' on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'". Taste of Country. October 14, 2022. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
  4. ^ "Midland + Jon Pardi Join Forces to Numb Heartache in 'Longneck Way to Go'". Taste of Country. May 5, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
  5. ^ Tom Roland (July 19, 2022). "Makin' Tracks: The 'Longneck' Way: Midland Taps Jon Pardi For a Chaotic, '90s-Branded Escapade". Billboard. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  6. ^ "Midland Chart History (Country Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
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