Colby Acuff Western White Pines (CD)

(Sony Music) 10 tracks

Colby Acuff / WESTERN WHITE PINES - Working with renowned producer/engineer Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Brandi Carlile, Cody Jinks), Acuff has his first major-label project on the way, recorded with a new team of top-notch talent at Nashville's Sound Emporium. Another batch of gritty, single-handed songs - plus the first co-writes of a promising career - will help showcase a country talent as wild and free as the Idaho mountains themselves. But despite his new chapter, he has no plans to hold back. "You have two choices: You can make music for you and the people who are going to hear it, or you can make music for the people who are going to pay for it," Acuff says. "And I always tend to make music for you and your fans.