Chart-topping, platinum-selling recording artist and current ACM New Male Artist of the Year Jimmie Allen’s dynamic new album Bettie James Gold Edition is available everywhere now via BBR Music Group/Stoney Creek Records / BMG. Listen to it HERE.
The 16-track album doubles down on Allen’s expansive love for music across genres, with nine brand new collaborations in addition to the seven previously featured on his critically acclaimed July 2020 project Bettie James, named in homage to Allen’s late father, James Allen, and late grandmother, Bettie Snead.
Featured artists on Bettie James Gold Edition include Babyface, BRELAND, Keith Urban, LANCO, Lathan Warlick,Lindsay Ell, Little Big Town, LOCASH, Monica, Neon Union, Pitbull, teamwork. and Vikina.
“When it comes to music I love, I don’t really get wrapped up in boundaries or genres. I thought we were gonna stop with the collaborations with Bettie James, and then I was like man, there’s so much music out there that I love, so many artists that I love, and I just wasn’t done,” Allen says of the impetus for Bettie James Gold Edition. “There’s some Pop, there’s some Rock, there’s some Country, there’s some R&B. I got a chance to work with legends! When I was writing some of the songs, I was trying to picture each moment. I went to each artist to work with them so they could be who they are on the song and bring their greatness to the song – I feel like that’s what makes the songs better. I’m super proud of the body of work of this album and can’t wait for people to hear it.”
The release of Bettie James Gold Edition follows the monumental success of its predecessor, Bettie James, a seven-track project released July 2020 which featured a wide array of artists from across genres and generations including Brad Paisley, Charley Pride, Darius Rucker, Mickey Guyton, Nelly, Noah Cyrus, The Oak Ridge Boys, Rita Wilson, Tauren Wells and Tim McGraw. The project amassed more than 160 million streams, garnered both fan and critical acclaim and further established Allen as Country’s next superstar.
2021 shows no signs of Allen’s trailblazing and rising star power slowing down. His current hit single “Freedom Was A Highway” with Paisley was recently playlisted at Radio 2. Last Friday, Allen performed his song “Good Times Roll” on ABC’s primetime special “Juneteenth: Together We Triumph – A ‘Soul of a Nation’ Special Event.” Allen will publish his debut picture book, My Voice Is a Trumpet, with Flamingo Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers on July 13. The book is a powerful story that about speaking up for what you believe in (at any age) and celebrates the many types of voices that can affect change. He will appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss the book in an interview with Twitch on July 8.
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