Maddie & Tae will release their fourth studio album ‘Love & Light' on 2nd May 2025 via Mercury Nashville.
The 16-track album features the previously released tracks ‘Free Like', ‘Sad Girl Summer', ‘Heart They Didn't Break' and the new single ‘Kissing Cowboys'. Watch the visualiser for ‘Kissing Cowboys' below:
Produced by Josh Kerr, Chris LaCorte, and Corey Crowder, ‘Love & Light' features stories of resilience, confidence, vulnerability, and the ever-enduring bond of friendship and sisterhood Maddie & Tae have formed over the years. Together, they have grown up, started families, seen the world, and faced career highs and lows. The album is available to pre-save now.
“The thing about being a little bit older,” says Taylor Kerr, “is you realize how many things you wish someone had told you. All the stuff you worried about, the pressure to be somebody else’s idea – when you really should be out there, well, ‘kissing cowboys.’”
The aptly titled ‘Kissing Cowboys', written by Font, Kerr, Luke Dick, and Laura Veltz, celebrates the joy in the journey.
For ‘Love & Light', Maddie & Tae drafted bluegrass sensation Bryan Sutton, Academy of Country Music Guitarist and two-time Specialty Instrumentalist of the Year Danny Rader, four-time ACM Bassist of the Year Jimmie Lee Sloas, electric guitarist Kris Donegan and drummers Evan Hutchings and Aaron Sterling among many musicians.
“We’ve been out on the road,” Kerr says, “playing for a few thousand people at our own dates. We realized people are hungry for songs that tell it like it is about being single, being done wrong, being done right, and figuring out how to grow up without losing your sense of self, your friends or your dreams. So, we leaned into all those things.”
“And we didn’t let go of that sound where we take acoustic instruments, really make them shine and then thread all that electric goodness through a pretty stout base,” Font continues.
The tracklisting for ‘Love & Light' is:
- Fall in Love & Find Out
- Any Kinda Lovin’**
- One Hit Wonders **
- Heart They Didn’t Break**
- Only Jesus
- Free Like
- Down That Road*
- Kissing Cowboys
- Somebody Will
- Girl in Alabama
- Ain’t Enough
- What a Woman Can Do
- Drunk Girls in Bathrooms
- Chasing Babies & Raising Dreams
- Sad Girl Summer**
- Love & Light
Produced by Josh Kerr
*Produced by Josh Kerr and Chris LaCorte
**Produced by Corey Crowder
You can see Maddie & Tae on the ‘Love & Light' tour at:
April 10 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
April 25 – Chicago, IL – Joe’s Live
May 1 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
May 9 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
May 15 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
