Randall King does it again with his new album “Into The Neon”

BY: HAELEY CARPENTER / Digital Media Director

West-Texas raised country musician Randall King released his third album called “Into The Neon” on Jan. 26, 2023.

These songs work so well together and calling the album “Into The Neon” could not be more fitting. From drinks and dancing to heartbreak and new starts, this album is everything you’d expect to find in a honky tonk.

While promoting this album, King released six songs starting with “When My Baby’s In Boots” which he dropped May 5, 2023. On Oct. 19, 2023 he announced the new album would drop on Jan. 26, 2024.

It did, and it’s incredible.

18 songs is a hefty album. Not many artists can drop that many tracks and all of them are bangers, but King did.

This album gave me chills. I don’t think Randall King knows how to put out anything except top tier songs. The writers of this album are impeccable and King is the perfect person to perform them.

I see a lot of older country music in this album. The vibes of these songs match those of Alan Jackson, Josh Turner, George Strait and Clay Walker.

Randall King has put a traditional twist on modern country.

“Into The Neon” is already the No. 1 album on the iTunes Country Music Album Chart in the United States and songs have been added to playlists on Spotify such as “New Boots”, “Release Radar” and “Hot Country.”

I was lucky enough to see King in concert (for the fourth time) the night before his album was released, where he played a lot of the new songs.

This was the third time King has played at The Twisted J in Stephenville, Texas. He always attracts a great crowd full of Stephenville locals, and Tarleton State University and Ranger College students.

Almost every song makes me feel like I can’t wait for someone to spin me around the dance floor and a lot of them have the potential to turn into line dances. Each song tells a story that you can relate to in some kind of way.

Here are my favorite lyrics from each song:

One Night Dance

“You're right, right, left, and I'm going, going, gone”

Somewhere Over Us

“Throw goodbye into high gear out here, into the night”

and

“If your memory ain't gone, I ain't putting this thing in park”

When My Baby’s In Boots

“Find her some whiskey to shoot

Get gone in a honky tonk crowd”

and

“Them lights comin' on, don't slow her down none”

What Doesn’t Kill You

“Sometimes, the cure for the blues is a bar crowd

Sometimes, the only way through is to throw down”

Hang Of Hangin On

“Ain't nothin' that I felt

With anybody else

Ever felt quite like

All this peace I've come to know”

Burns Like Her

“So easy to hold, if her soul's a Roman candle

I wanna spend all my life taking in the show”

and

“Give me something that hurts like heaven

That kind of fire in my heart, leaving smoke in my shirt”

Good Feelin’

“You, you, you or the whiskey

Wonder which one of y'all gonna kill me”

and

“Cause I don't know who you are

But you already broke my heart

And I ain't even bought you a drink”

The One You’re Waiting On

“Does he miss you every minute that he's gone?

Is he funny? Is he witty?

Does he tell you that you're pretty?

Did he hang the moon? Can he do no wrong?”

and

“And look up at me, I'd be happy to be

The one you're waiting on”

Into The Neon

“Heaven help a heart that ever tries to even love me”

and

“I've been known to roam where the barstool wind blows”

Tonk ‘Til I Die

“Got me spinning like a country song

And I can do it all night long”

But It Ain’t

“Still drive the same truck, still get the same drunk

Still down on my same luck since you walked away”

Coulda Been Love

“Coulda been love, coulda been forever

Guess I'll never know, some fools never

Never, ever learn when not to run”

Damn You Look Good

“Damn, you look good in them last call lights

Swear it's like your eyes are shining twice as bright

Smilin' like nobody ever done you wrong”

Hard To Be Humble

“No I can't help talk about you

Walk a little taller in my old boots

Never like showing off what I got

But look at you, baby, how can I not?”

and

“Loving on a girl straight off the top shelf”

Right Things Right

“Some days, you're barely hangin' on

You'll make it through and survive

You're gonna get some things wrong

Just get the right things right”

As Far As We Go

“Wish I knew of a way

To make you wanna stay

To fix what we've broken

But I don't and I know it”

I Could Be That Rain

“Wish I could be that rain that's falling

On your skin, baby, I'd start pouring

Sing you a song on that old tin roof”

I Don’t Whiskey Anymore

“I wish I could but, man, that good stuff ain't no good for me”

Go to Spotify, iTunes or YouTube to stream “Into The Neon” by Randall King.