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Mr. Lonely (Midland song)

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"Mr. Lonely"
Mr.Lonelysingle.jpg
Single by Midland
from the album Let It Roll
ReleasedApril 15, 2019 (2019-04-15)
GenreCountry
Length3:00
LabelBig Machine
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Midland singles chronology
"Burn Out"
(2018)
"Mr. Lonely"
(2019)
"Cheatin' Songs"
(2020)

"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.

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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.

Let It Roll (Midland album)

Let It Roll (Midland album)

Let It Roll is the second studio album by American country music group Midland. It was released on August 23, 2019 via Big Machine Records.

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne

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

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Originally a solo artist for Curb Records in 1999, McAnally charted three singles on Hot Country Songs, including the No. 31 "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". McAnally left the country music business in 2000 and returned in 2006 as a songwriter, having initial success on that front with "Last Call" by Lee Ann Womack. He began working as a producer in 2013 with Kacey Musgraves' debut album Same Trailer Different Park. From the early 2010s onward, McAnally has worked almost exclusively as a songwriter and producer.

Content and history

Band members Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson, and Cameron Duddy wrote the song with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne,[1] both of whom co-produced the recording with Dann Huff.[2] Midland's road band guitarist Luke Cutchen plays lead guitar,[2] and session musician Paul Franklin contributes on pedal steel guitar.[1]

Marissa R. Moss of Rolling Stone Country described the song as " a mischievous, Texas dance hall-inspired tune in the spirit of Eddie Rabbitt" and "a tongue-in-cheek ode to embracing the role of the being someone’s late-night phone call when their other date went south."[1] Taste of Country writer Jacklyn Krol said of the song that "The beat is retro country, but the song's lyric about a charming rogue trying to hook up with other men's women is relevant to any period" and called it an "uptempo country hall dance tune".[2]

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Mark Wystrach

Mark Wystrach

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

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally

Shane McAnally is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. Originally a solo artist for Curb Records in 1999, McAnally charted three singles on Hot Country Songs, including the No. 31 "Are Your Eyes Still Blue". McAnally left the country music business in 2000 and returned in 2006 as a songwriter, having initial success on that front with "Last Call" by Lee Ann Womack. He began working as a producer in 2013 with Kacey Musgraves' debut album Same Trailer Different Park. From the early 2010s onward, McAnally has worked almost exclusively as a songwriter and producer.

Josh Osborne

Josh Osborne

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

Dann Huff

Dann Huff

Dann Lee Huff is an American record producer, studio musician and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the Musician of the Year award in 2001, 2004, and 2016 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award in 2006 and 2009 at the Academy of Country Music. He is the father of American singer and songwriter Ashlyne Huff and brother of Giant and White Heart drummer David Huff.

Lead guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featured guitar, which usually plays single-note-based lines or double-stops. In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz, punk, fusion, some pop, and other music styles, lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompaniment chords and riffs.

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.

Pedal steel guitar

Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play unlimited glissandi and deep vibrati—characteristics it shares with the human voice. Pedal steel is most commonly associated with American country music and Hawaiian music.

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its coverage of rock music and political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine broadened and shifted its focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. It has since returned to its traditional mix of content, including music, entertainment, and politics.

Eddie Rabbitt

Eddie Rabbitt

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as "Suspicions", "I Love a Rainy Night", and "Every Which Way but Loose". His duets "Both to Each Other " with Juice Newton and "You and I" with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives and All My Children.

Music video

Duddy directed the song's music video, which features Dennis Quaid portraying a protagonist who is attacked by a number of women while Midland performs the song.[3]

Source: "Mr. Lonely (Midland song)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 26th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Lonely_(Midland_song).

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References
  1. ^ a b c Marissa R. Moss (March 29, 2019). "Midland Play the Lothario in Mischievous New Song 'Mr. Lonely'". Rolling Stone.
  2. ^ a b c Jacklyn Krol (March 29, 2019). "Midland's 'Mr. Lonely' Is a Rockin' Classic Country Cheatin' Song". Taste of Country. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "Dennis Quaid Plays 'Mr. Lonely' in Midland's New Music Video". Taste of Country. April 30, 2019. Retrieved November 11, 2019.
  4. ^ "Midland Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Midland Chart History (Country Airplay)". Billboard.
  6. ^ "Midland Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  7. ^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2019". Billboard. Retrieved December 6, 2019.

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