Chris Housman has released the music video for ‘High Hopes', the opening track from his recently released album ‘Blueneck'.
Written by Housman and Jerry Fuentes, the banjo-driven song finds the acclaimed Country singer in an optimistic mood. The video, directed by Ford Fairchild, was shot in downtown Chattanooga on one of only four operational carousels in the state of Tennessee.
Featured this week on “CBS Sunday Morning’s” digital platforms, Housman shares of the song, “In a world where there seems to be a new catastrophic event every day, I had the idea for this song from a level of peace I strive for in life – a place where no amount of bad news today can take away my ‘High Hopes’ for a better tomorrow.”
Housman shared exclusively with Popculture, who premiered the video, “(my) co-writer, and I had the idea. We were just talking about how, ‘oh I wish I could just be on a horse, just walking.’ The horse doesn't need to be running, just sitting, (me) in Western attire or something…. like, ‘Dang, that'd be awesome.’ Then he threw out the idea of, ‘Oh, what if you were on a carousel?’ They were like, ‘Yeah, let's find a carousel.’”
Housman is one of six participants in this year’s Equal Access Development Program, an intensive artist and management training initiative created by CMT and management company mtheory to support underrepresented voices in country music.
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