{"id":1307348,"date":"2019-03-29T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804515"},"modified":"2019-03-29T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:03:25","slug":"thomas-rhett-takes-friends-and-fans-down-center-point-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/thomas-rhett-takes-friends-and-fans-down-center-point-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett Takes Friends and Fans Down Center Point Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:669002?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">15m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Hendersonville, Tennessee is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Nashville. So if might not mean much to tourists. But to Thomas Rhett, it\u2019s everything.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why his next album \u2014 <em>Center Point Road<\/em>, due out May 31 \u2014 literally hits so close to home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, Center Point Road really symbolizes what it was like to grow up in Hendersonville. First dates, first football games, first heartbreak, first kisses, success and failures. I really feel like that road shaped who I am today, and it felt fitting because the record, for the most part, is pretty nostalgic,\u201d Thomas Rhett said of the road that winds its way from Long Hollow Road down to Old Hickory Lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSongs like \u2019Almost,\u2019 \u2019That Old Truck\u2019 and especially \u2019Center Point Road,\u2019 really describe who I was as a kid and teenager, and who I\u2019ve become as an adult,\u201d he added. (He also has one on the album called \u201cVHS,\u201d and as founding member of Blockbuster, I think I will relate to that one the most.) \u201cOn this one, I just got back to why I wanted to make music in the first place \u2014 and that was writing great songs. This is one of those records that every time I listen back to it, it still feels new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s not all alone out there on <em>Center Point Road<\/em>. For a few of the tracks, he\u2019s brought some friends along: Little Big Town on \u201cDon\u2019t Threaten Me With A Good Time,\u201d Kelsea Ballerini on the title track, and Jon Pardi on \u201cBeer Can\u2019t Fix.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Thomas Rhett says in his latest social media post about the road he\u2019s driven a gagillion times, \u201cWe all have one.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BvkkQ9Iggey\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804515\/thomas-rhett-takes-friends-and-fans-down-center-point-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 15m ago Hendersonville, Tennessee is about 20 miles northeast of downtown Nashville. So if might not mean much to tourists. But to Thomas Rhett, it\u2019s everything. Which is why his next album \u2014 Center Point Road, due out May 31 \u2014 literally hits so close to home. \u201cFor me, Center Point Road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1307348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:42:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}