Tom's Country View

"We recorded this album trying to encapsulate the classic Christmas sounds I’ve always loved and put my own soulful and jazz-like spin on it. If you need a place to rest your soul and a group of magical humans to share it with, then just put this album on play, lay back, and take a breath." (Brett Eldredge / tasteofcountry.com, September 18, 2024) "After I finished the Glow Tour last year, I immediately dove into writing an album full of original Christmas songs that will hopefully become classics in your hearts and minds," Eldredge writes on social media. "We recorded this album trying to encapsulate the classic Christmas sounds I’ve always loved and put my own soulful and jazz-like spin on it." "Whatever you want to call it, just know it’s a reflection of the most important themes of the holidays — love, togetherness, family, and community," he continues. "If you need a place to rest your soul and a group of magical humans to...

"Somebody asked me this one time... If there was a song, one song you could show somebody that never heard of you before and you were like, 'Hey, this is a song that represents my whole life and artistic career and what I do,' it'd be 'Your Place.' That's what I thought about." (Ashley Cooke / popculture.com, May 28, 2024)

"[In the 90s] country music had to sound a certain way and had to look a certain way. If people weren't wearing a cowboy hat you might as well pack it up and go back home. And now, what it is, what does it look like, how do you describe it? It is so many different varieties. And we have clearly seen that this has helped us." (John Osborne / BBC, The Country Show with Bob Harris, March 11, 2024)

"After we've written the song, I sent it to Mom, I sent it to Gloria, and I'm sending it to my sister. And slowly but surely now - we still say 'I Love You', because I come from a wonderful line of women that is quick to give you a hug and quick to tell you if they love you or if you have pissed them off. And now we tell each other: 'I'll leave the light on!'" (Ashley McBryde / The Bobby Bones Show, March 3, 2023)

"When you see me, you don’t get it initially — then you meet me, and hear the story and hear the music. I just feel like I represent the guy who looks at himself in the mirror every day and goes, ‘Yeah, guys like me don’t make it.’ "   (Jelly Roll / billboard.com, December 8, 2022)