Rice goes the acoustic route for "The Album"

The journey of "The Album" first began in early 2020, when Rice surprised fans with a collection of music. As the year progressed and Rice returned to his roots with an acoustic guitar while spending time off the road, he was inspired to reimagine the project in a whole new way.

"As we all slowed down this year, I found myself gravitating back to how it all began for me – writing songs with just myself and a guitar," said Rice. "I started sharing videos of me playing some of the new music that way and fans really loved it, so that inspired me to go back to each song and create these acoustic versions, which give 'The Album' a whole new perspective."

Songs include Rice's current single "Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen. (featuring Florida Georgia Line)." Rice previously wrote the megahit "Cruise" with FGL's Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley.

"We haven't done music together in 10 years," said Rice, "and all of a sudden it all comes back around for guys who literally lived in a house together and were just trying to figure it out for themselves."

"We called it the 'fun house,' just to sum it up in two words. We had a whole lot of fun, we played a lot of music, we drank a lot of beer and talked a lot of God," said Hubbard. "Honestly, that's sort of why this song resonates so much for all of us. We were all kind of finding ourselves as adults, but we were also really grounded in who we were, in our faith, in our passions, in what we were pursuing, in what we loved — so it was fun just doing it all together when we were green as could be and had nothing to lose."

"It was a nonstop creative house," said Kelley. "There were so many days when we wrote so many songs, and then we'd get ready to go out and we'd be making up more songs and keeping the whole creative flow going. That's hard to replicate... We try to somewhat re-create it when we're writing songs and hanging out, but in those early days we couldn't get away from songwriting and I still feel like that's in us."

The track list is:
1. American Nights (Kevin Griffin, Martin Johnson, Francois Tetaz; produced by Martin Johnson)
2. Lonely If You Are (Chase Rice, Lindsay Rimes, Hunter Phelps)
3. Everywhere (Chase Rice, Zachary Kale, James McNair; produced by Zachary Kale)
4. Best Night Ever (Chase Rice, Chris DeStefano, Matt Jenkins)
5. Messy (Seth Ennis, Kylie Sackley)
6. In The Car (Chase Rice, Jesse Rice, Hunter Phelps, Mark Holman)
7. Forever To Go (Jordan Minton, Casey Brown, Geoffrey Warburton; produced by Casey Brown)
8. You (Chase Rice, Jon Nite, Zach Kale)
9. Break. Up. Drunk. (Chase Rice, Hunter Phelps, Jordan Schmidt)
10. Down Home Runs Deep (Daniel Ross, Michael Hardy, Mike Walker, James McNair)
11. Belong (Chase Rice, Chris DeStefano, Jon Nite)
12. The Nights (Chase Rice, Zach Kale, James McNair; produced by Zach Kale)
13. Bedroom (Chase Rice, Jon Nite, Jimmy Robbins; produced by Corey Crowder)
14. If I Didn't Have You (Chase Rice, Channing Wilson, Jonathan Singleton; produced by Jimmy Robbins and Singleton)
15. Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen. (featuring Florida Georgia Line) (Chase Rice, Hunter Phelps, Cale Dodds, Corey Crowder; produced by Chase Rice, Florida Georgia Line and Corey Crowder)