Pardi initially balked at the risqué title of another track on the album, “Reverse Cowgirl,” until producer Butler persuaded him to give it a chance - especially since the title is a clever play on words. “It was just fun to throw that in there, just keeping that easygoing mood.”

“There’s a lot of Spanish culture in the area, a lot of Spanish speakers, and they love country music,” Pardi says. The song also offers a passing nod to the deep roots of Hispanic culture that canvas not only Texas, but country music and cowboy culture, with Pardi singing “Adios, trabajo” (“Bye, work”) and “Uno mas cerveza” (“One more beer”). “We thought it could be such a ‘Margaritaville’- type thing, just doing whatever you can do to relax,” Pardi says. Pardi crafted “Smokin’ a Doobie” with Laird and Rhett Akins while Pardi was out in New Braunfels, Texas, playing three shows at the Whitewater Amphitheater, near the Guadalupe River. You can tell how much fun we were having,” Pardi recollects of teaming with Midland’s Mark Wystrach, Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy to film the song’s video in a Nashville-area bowling alley. Pardi says making the video was just as enlivening as being in the studio.

Pardi’s vocal contribution to the song, penned by Midland with Ashley Gorley and Rhett Akins, proved a full-circle moment, as Akins had played the song for Pardi long before Midland extended the invitation. Pardi’s honky-tonk energy melds seamlessly with Texas trio Midland’s smooth ‘70s country vibe on the raucous “Longneck Way to Go,” which also previously appeared on Midland’s The Last Resort project. Everything fits, from the ones I’ve written, the ones I’ve recorded, they’re all based around me and in the long run, a lot of these songwriters know the sounds that I gravitate toward.” “They stuck around and carved their names into this album and it wouldn’t sound the same without them. “These are songs that I’ve had on hold for two years, that have been part of this project for a long time,” Pardi says. If the songs here sound fresh, yet also comfortably lived-in, it’s because they are. Saturday Night is a long-awaited project, coming two pandemic-ravaged years after his 2019 album Heartache Medication, which earned album of the year nominations from the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association. Working again with producers Bart Butler and Ryan Gore, Pardi co-wrote five songs on the project, including “New Place to Drink” and “Santa Cruz.”įor Pardi, Mr. Strait-esque tributes to lasting love (“The Day I Stop Dancin’”) sit comfortably alongside more light-hearted, barroom fare (“Fill ‘Er Up”). Saturday Night is an homage to beer-soaked, neon-lit barrooms, ice-cold longnecks, wide open spaces, and the complexities of life, love and loss, spread out over 14 songs. As with his previous three albums, Pardi’s Mr. Informed by both California’s rock-and-roll influenced Bakersfield sound of the ‘60s and the devil-may-care defiance of artists such as Cash and Bakersfield icon Merle Haggard, Pardi has blazed his own trail over the past decade. Pardi grew up in Dixon, California, just over 20 miles southwest of California’s capital in Sacramento, and less than 50 miles away from the site of the famed Folsom State Prison, where music legend Johnny Cash performed a pair of concerts in 1968 that resulted in his famed live album At Folsom Prison. The coolest thing is just hearing them say, ‘Keep doing what you’re doing.’ I’m happy that people are more accepting of the more traditional, ‘90s kind of sound.” I’ve toured with people like Alan Jackson and Brooks & Dunn and you want them to like what you do. That’s why I always had a little bit of it, but still modern.

“For me, it was always just kind of what I thought country music sounded like. “I think it’s more glorified now than ever,” Pardi says of the ‘90s country craze. But Pardi is by no means a bandwagon-jumper: His music has been anchored in classic country sounds, glossed with a modern patina, since his 2012 debut single “Missing You Crazy.” Over the past year or so, a throng of modern country artists have weaved threads of ‘80s and ‘90s country sounds into their music, with chart-topping results. “It’s nice to see this song shooting up, so hopefully we get more singles from this album,” says Pardi, who is managed by Red Light and C3 Management, and booked by CAA. “Last Night Lonely” follows Pardi’s previous top 5 Country Airplay hits “Ain’t Always the Cowboy” and “Tequila Little Time.” The relatively fast 28-week chart ascension of “Last Night Lonely” is a boon for Pardi when some songs are taking year-long journeys to the summit of the country radio charts.

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