Charlie Robison Returns With His First Album In Five Years

Charlie Robison’s new album, Beautiful Day, will come out June 23rd on Dualtone Records

Throughout his career, Charlie Robison has forged his own path within the country music world. His dynamic and hard-charging performing style has made him a Lone State favorite as well as an extordinary popular national country-rock attraction. Robison’s last album and label debut for Dualtone Records, Good Times, solidified his position in country music as one of Texas’ finest songwriters. Good Times racked up the best sales of his career, and the video for the single "El Cerrito Place" was a Top 10 Hit on the CMT Network. It’s been a long wait for his fans, but Robison will finally return on June 23rd with a new album titled Beautiful Day. The ten-track release includes “Reconsider,” “Down Again,” “Nothin Better To Do,” and the title track. In what now may seem rather ironic, Robison’s last album found him celebrating wedded and domestic contentment as a husband to Emily of The Dixie Chicks and father of son Gus and twins Juliana and Henry. Now, five years later Robison’s new album explores his divorce from Emily, which was finalized in August of last year. It’s only natural to label this is his “divorce album,” which is not altogether untrue. Beautiful Day is a musical and emotional journey that travels through a vivid landscape of feelings and moods from certain places to other ones new and wholly different. Like such certified classics as Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and Willie Nelson’s Phases & Stages, its narrative center is the end of Robison’s marriage. While their divorce was amicable, the experience still wasn’t an easy one for him, as the end of any profound love is bound to be. “When I was writing this record, I was going through the quintessential divorce thing of living in a one-bedroom apartment in downtown San Antonio across from the bus station,” Robison recalls. “When it’s over, it’s over.”