{"id":1318425,"date":"2020-02-25T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818237"},"modified":"2020-02-25T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:53:07","slug":"jake-hoot-i-have-been-writing-my-rear-end-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/jake-hoot-i-have-been-writing-my-rear-end-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Hoot: \u201cI Have Been Writing My Rear End Off\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n21m ago<\/span>
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Jake Hoot, the latest winner of The Voice<\/em>, is on the verge of releasing his first official country album. <\/p>\n

So cue the sound of 18,300 Twitter followers, 63,500 Instagram followers and 43,644 Facebook followers virtually applauding that highly anticipated news. <\/p>\n

And Hoot knows that he is blessed to have a lot of people waiting on his new music, so when I caught up with him in Nashville shortly after his win, he told me he is just as ready as they are. <\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I\u2019m in that in-between phase \u2014 with labels and managers \u2014 and all those kinds of things that you have to line up after the show is over,\u201d Hoot told me. \u201cI just had a meeting about touring here and playing there and visiting here, and I told everyone that that all sounds great. But at the end of the day, I am ready to make music. I have been writing my rear end off. So I am ready to get people listening to what we\u2019ve been working on. <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause people ask me every day, multiple times, \u2019When\u2019s the album coming out?\u2019 I tell them I\u2019m ready. I\u2019m beyond ready to get in the studio and get going,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully I\u2019ll have a single out in next couple months.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the new songs Hoot is most excited about, he admitted, is one that the Tennessee singer\/songwriter did not write. It came from the pen of Nashville songwriter and producer Dave Pahanish. <\/p>\n

\u201cOut of everybody I\u2019ve written with, Dave is probably one of my favorite guys that I\u2019ve ever written with. He\u2019s just on a different level. The way he writes lyrics, the way he writes melodies, the way he sings: I love all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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