Butts helms "Roadrunner" video

Friday, May 17, 2024 – Kaitlin Butts took the directors reins for the new video for "Roadrunner," the title track from her upcoming new album Roadrunner!, out June 28th via Soundly Music.

Part travelogue, part farce, the video depicts life on the road for Butts and her band the Mules (formerly the Ass-tronauts) in adventures both real and embellished.

"'Roadrunner,' is a reflection of my journey to now, it's the convergence of everything I've ever loved: theatre, music, country and my Oklahoma roots," said Butts. "The version of me depicted in the video is much closer to what I'm like onstage, where there's real emotion and truth, but also humor and a tendency to poke fun. It's all those different versions of me at once. In making this music video, I wanted to show the highs and lows and chaotic lifestyle that I love so much."

When it came time to create her third album, the Tulsa, Okla.-born, Nashville-based musician leaned into her lifelong love of musical theater and dreamed up a modern-day reimagining of the soundtrack to her all-time favorite musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!"

The result: a concept, but autobiographical LP of 17 songs produced by Oran Thornton (Brent Cobb, Logan Brill). The track list is:
1. OVERTURE: My New Life Starts Today - written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
2. Roadrunner - written by Kaitlin Butts
3. Other Girls (Ain't Havin' Any Fun) - written by Kaitlin Butts and Natalie Hemby
4. Wild Juanita's Cactus Juice - Written by Kaitlin Butts
5. Soliloquy: Out Of My Dreams
6. Come Rest Your Head (feat. Vince Gill) - written by Kaitlin Butts
7. People Will Say We're In Love (feat. Cleto Cordero) - written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
8. Buckaroo - written by Kaitlin Butts
9. That'll Never Be Me - written by Kaitlin Butts and Angaleena Presley
10. Spur - written by Kaitlin Butts and Megan James
11. If I Can't Have You - written by Kaitlin Butts
12. Bang, Bang (Poor Jud is Dead) - Written by Sonny Bono
13. You Ain't Gotta Die To Be Dead To Me - written by Kaitlin Butts and Natalie Hemby
14. Like I Should - written by Kaitlin Butts
15. Hunt You Down - written by Kesha Serbert and Richard Nowels
16. Followed You To Vegas- written by Kaitlin Butts
17. Elsa - written by Kaitlin Butts, Courtney Patton and Jimmie Davis