Nashville, TN – Feb. 19, 2013 – From Good Morning America’s New York
City studio this morning, seven-time GRAMMY winning trio Lady Antebellum
announced the release of their fourth Capitol Nashville studio album GOLDEN,
available in stores on May 7.
“This album feels to me like one of those that from start to finish could be a good
road-trip record and that’s what we wanted,” said Lady A’s Charles Kelley. “It’s
one of the reasons why the term ‘golden’ was kind of cool. I think about road
trips and driving down the road with those little streaks of sunshine popping
through the trees, especially at sunset. ‘Golden’…it just gives you this warm,
easy feeling.”
“Writing and recording this record really took us back to when we first met each
other,” added Hillary Scott. “When I first met the boys, we spent a lot of time
around the piano at the house they lived in at the time. We didn’t really know
each other at all, but there was still some magic and then the harmonies – that’s
how it all started – that blend of our voices and that blend of our songwriting craft.
So, it’s exciting that even on our fourth record, we can still find that.”
“The word ‘golden’ to me conjures up a lot of pictures,” continued Dave
Haywood. “In the title track, it depicts driving down the road at sunset but, to me,
it also depicts a special time in our career…a ‘golden,’ special time for us. We
definitely want to value this time in our careers because it’s such a treasure that
we can still sit in a room and write songs together. I personally feel so humbled to
still be making records that people are excited to hear.”
The new album’s lead single “Downtown” already stormed the Country radio
charts, becoming the trio’s career highest charting debut. People noted “this
preview of Lady A’s next album is slinky, sexy fun…crazy-catchy and downright
soulful.”
Lady A’s previous three studio albums have paved the way for GOLDEN, which
follows over 11 million album sales, six career No. one hits and seven GRAMMY
awards. Last year alone, more than one million fans in over 11 countries
welcomed the ACM and CMA award-winning trio on their headlining tour.