Teddy and The Rough Riders Share New Barnburner “Fast Livin’” from Their Forthcoming Album ‘Down Home’

Teddy and The Rough Riders will release their long-awaited new album Down Home on October 11. So far, the Nashville mainstays have released two singles from the collection—“Catfish Summer” and “Hippies.” Today (September 18), they shared the third sample of the forthcoming releases. Check out “Fast Livin’” below.

Down Home is an album that was nearly four years in the making. Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings, the twin heads of Teddy and The Rough Riders started working on the record in 2020. “After our Orville Peck opening tour had been canceled, one day before playing Luck Reunion no less, we got together, masked up as reasonably as possible, and started to woodshed songs for not only Teddy but Emily Nenni and Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears,” Jennings shared in a statement. “Then, in 2021, we went to our friend’s little studio and actually cut the record at the same time as we cut Sean’s album Weird Ears. We would go back and forth recording one of ours and one of his,” he added.

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Now, years later, fans are finally getting to hear snippets of the result of that long process. In less than a month, they’ll have their hands on the complete collection.

Teddy and The Rough Riders Discuss “Fast Livin’”

Knowing that Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings have been on the road as Teddy and The Rough Riders for more than a decade may lead some listeners to believe that “Fast Livin’” is an autobiographical song. It paints a picture of leaving town, touring, and getting up to all the extra-curricular shenanigans that musicians are known for. However, that isn’t the case.

“The inspiration behind a song like ‘Fast Livin’’ comes from a classic Country trope about living beyond your means; living hard,” Quiggins shared in a statement. “Not to say we’re strangers to that life, but there’s something about the familiarity of it that feels natural—but also scary—and I really wanted to portray that in a fast-ripping barn burner.”

Co-written by Quiggins and Jennings, “Fast Livin’” fits the “fast-ripping barn burner bill” perfectly. Driven by drums like a speeding train, drenched in pedal steel and Telecaster twang, it’s the kind of song that might make a driver’s right foot a little heavier if played at the proper volume.

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