Gary Allan’s Album Ruthless – Available Now!

by jwills | June 25, 2021

It’s been a long wait for Gary Allan fans – but his new album Ruthless is available now!

His last full-length album, Set You Free, came out in 2013, and Gary says it was never his intention to have it be this long between projects, “I don’t think that I thought that I was gonna take eight years to do this. Each project that I did in those eight years, I thought was gonna be released. So, the good part about it was I had so much material to go over to make this album, and because I had so much time, I cut 28 tracks. I usually cut 13 tracks to pick 10, so to cut 28 tracks and then reduce that down to 13, I think really made for a strong album. Not that I’d really want to do every album this way, but it really made for a strong album. I’m excited for everybody to hear it.”

Ruthless track listing:

1. “Temptation” (Written by Nicolle Galyon, Chase McGill and Jon Nite)
2. “Waste Of A Whiskey Drink” (Written by Josh Kear, Michael Hardy and Mark Holman)
3. “Till It Felt Like You”* (Written by Kyle Jacobs, Joe Leathers and Matt Warren)
4. “Slide” (Written by Ross Ellis, Alex Kline and Michael Whitworth)
5. “Pretty Damn Close”* (Written by Gary Allan, Sarah Buxton, Rodney Clawson and Matt Warren)
6. “High As I’ve Ever Been”* (Written by Matt Warren, James Slater and Skip Black)
7. “What I Can’t Talk About”* (Written by Jim Beavers, Lindsay Rimes and Matt Rogers)
8. “SEX” (Written by Nicolle Galyon, Shane McAnally and Matt Jenkins)
9. “Trouble Knows Trouble” (Written by Steve Bogard, Jason Sever and John Edwards)
10. “Ruthless” (Written by Hillary Lindsey, busbee and Ryan Hurd)
11. “Unfiltered”** (Written by Blair Daly, Brad Warren and Brett Warren)
12. “Little Glass Of Wine”* (Written by Jesse Winchester)
13. “The Hard Way”* (Written by Matt Warren and Carey Ott)

Produced by Mark Wright and Tony Brown

*Produced by Gary Allan and Greg Droman

**Produced by Jay Joyce

And when it comes to the album’s title, Gary shares, “You always roll through all of your titles on the album, and to me, I always just try to pick what looks best on the shelf. So to me, Gary Allan Ruthless, it looks like a good title. And it’s been a long time coming. I’m so excited for everybody to hear this.”

“Temptation” is the lead track for Ruthless that is out now

Headline Photo Credit: Eric Adkins

Additional Photo Credit: Craig Allen

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