Today’s Country
Playlist - 76 Songs
This playlist tracks what’s happening from the heart of the country scene to its outer edges. Find fan favorites you already love next to breakout stars and emerging voices. Topping the list this week is ERNEST with “End of the Night,” a song the country star recorded as part of Apple Music’s Lost & Found series. Written by Bobby Pinson, David Lee Murphy, and the late Toby Keith, “End of the Night” is a midtempo ballad about a last-call romance gone wrong, with ERNEST casually declaring “it ain’t the end of the world” as a would-be lover walks away. ERNEST tells Apple Music he is a longtime Toby Keith fan, and that recording one of the country legend’s unreleased songs is an “honor and privilege.” “This one, when I heard it, it was like, ‘Oh, that sounds like something I would put on my record, something I would write, that kind of has that breezy vibe,’” he says. “When we went in to cut the song, I was not trying to do anything. I wanted to cut it the way I think they would’ve cut it. Gut-string guitar. Light bright. Let’s cut it.” Check back here early and often for updates, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.
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Today’s Country features ERNEST, Morgan Wallen, Parker McCollum and more