THOMAS RHETT - After All The Bars Are Closed - The Valory Music Co.

With the build to his seventh studio album, ABOUT A WOMAN, now amping its anticipation to deafening levels on the back of “Overdrive,” “Gone Country,” and current rising single, “Beautiful As You,” Thomas Rhett has continually introduced reminiscing, love story snapshots that outline where his life is at today while hoisting expectations as to what the overall feel of the album will carry.

Pulling together a culmination of his soulful flare, pop infused essence, and abilities to innovatively craft within sonic styles outside of the genre lines while still holding tightly to the core of modern country’s aura, he now offers a final tease of the album ahead of its release, “After All The Bars Are Closed.”

An exclamation point on he and wife Lauren’s early days of falling for each other, “After All The Bars Are Closed” feels lyrically like a continued showcase of their early dates, which we already know were chalked full of backroad drives, bonfires, and ultimately, finding a quiet place to escape and be alone together.

With a softness aiding the snap along, melodic groove, the instrumentation through the verses matches the fluttered knowing that while the night is winding down to its end inside the bar, perhaps it’s just really beginning for the two of them.

Teasing that after the last song gets played and the bar blows out the neon lights and stops the dancing before it’s ready to stop, the two of them will need to find another, more secluded place to go if they want their night to keep racing along with their rapid heartbeats -  the boondocks, a secret spot that only she knows about it, etc.

Through the playfulness of the chorus, Rhett instigates moving their nightcap to a place where the two of them can get to know one another on a different, deeper level:

“After all the bars are closed

Tell me where you want to go

We can find a place to park

Open the bottle and our hearts

If you want I’ll tell you anything you want to know

After everybody leaves

And this party’s just you and me

We don’t got to say we’re done

We can just wait up for the sun

We still got a lot of good night left to go

After all the bars are closed”

With pure creativeness in the lyrics that compare her kiss hitting him like a straight shot of Jack Daniels, and a picture painted idea of what could become of their night with the flirtatious notions of him being the bartender at the kitchen counter while wrapping her in his arms, “After All The Bars Are Closed” expertly spotlights the heartbeat of young love, carefree and falling for one another while walking with a mask of teetering confidence through the unstoppable butterfly feelings.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork c/o the Valory Music Co.)