As an old-school troubadour, Kolby Cooper has spent six years winning one crowd after another, building his rep as a rough-around-the-edges, country-rock phenom. But the infinite horizons of the highway come with a cost. Dialing up Love You, Goodnight – his second album for BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville with Combustion Music – the burning conflict within his late-night calls home becomes a blowtorch of country grunge, as a modern-day outlaw pushes his sound to its high-voltage limit. A 25-year-old husband & father of three, the Texas native grew up in the shotgun seat of his long-haul trucking family members, switching CDs between Waylon Jennings & Cross Canadian Ragweed – but also Nirvana, Blink-182, & more. Starting at 18, Kolby soon reached exit velocity on his orbit through the Texan live circuit, & his grassroots fan base now drives sold-out national headline tours & supporting runs with Jelly Roll, Koe Wetzel & more. Meanwhile, Cooper has racked up over 440 million on-demand streams, a Grand Ole Opry debut, & industry-wide accolades, dubbed “country music’s newest badass” by People. Featuring 14 fuse-busting anthems – each one revealing a different aspect of life on the road, written or co-written by Cooper himself – Love You, Goodnight arrives as a hard-hitting fusion of the Texas country tradition with 2000s-era alt-rock, metal & punk. This album marks a heavy creative turn to match his heavy soul depicting epic emotionality & an edgy, East-Texan rasp.
