At the beginning of 2020 Morgan Wallen had an idea for a double album, but didn’t think it could actually happen.

“At the beginning of 2020, we probably had about 20 songs that we felt were ready to be recorded … that we felt were worthy of being recorded. You know, 20 is a weird number, you can either whittle it down to 15, or you can do … maybe put out 5 here, 10 there, something like that. There’s all kinds of things you can do with 20, but we just for some reason gravitated towards the idea of a double album. I personally didn’t think it was going to be possible just because I scheduled to do a lot of touring in 2020 … I didn’t think I was going to have enough time to put that much effort, and the proper amount of effort into doing an album like that, so I just kind of passed it off as a pipe dream almost.”

Then the quarantine came and things changed.

“When everything happened the way it did … I thought, ‘Well, maybe this might be possible.’ Fortunately, I was able to write 4, 5 songs really at the beginning of quarantine, kind of just right off the bat. Which got us to a number of about 25, that made me feel confident that it would be actually something we could do. We ended up with 30, it’ll be 32 eventually when the exclusive tracks come out, but that was never the goal number, we didn’t really have a goal number in mind, it’s kind of just what happened.”

Dangerous: The Double Album arrives tomorrow, Friday, January 8th.

Listen for the debut #1 single from the project “More Than My Hometown” by Morgan Wallen on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

By: Buck Stevens