Singer/Songwriter Chris Roberts Releases New EP, All The Right Songs

Just two short months after his critically-acclaimed bluegrass album release, Mountain Standard Time, respected Nashville singer/songwriter/producer Chris Roberts has released a second music release in the form of an EP called All The Right Songs this week on his own Music Loft record label.

For Chris Roberts, whose The Way West album was one of That Nashville Sound’s favorite dozen albums of the year in 2015, expression through music takes many a shape- with it always ending in a deep passion for the song. It draws on his history in Broadway’s bright lights in New York (in the production of The Civil War and last fall in the Dan Fogelberg musical Part of the Plan), blissful harmony across the country radio airwaves (as part of Decca-signed trio One Flew South), shared stages with the likes of Willie Nelson and Neil Young (at Farm Aid), and many years as his church’s music director in a congregation that reads like a who’s who of the music business (St. Augustine’s). He's written music for a musical about the famed Higgins boats (the ones that beached the soldiers at Normandy) for the World War II museum in New Orleans and is currently writing a musical about The Freedom Riders, civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.

He's gotten cuts for the likes of Julie Roberts, Ashley McBryde, Love and Theft and The Swon Brothers, had songs placed on ABC and CMT's Nashville and a couple of other television shows. Roberts has even placed music in film. His first contribution was the whimsical “Friends For Life” for Disney’s Fox and the Hound 2 film. Along with Tony Esterly and Austin Jenckes, Roberts penned the main track for the action feature film, Assassin’s Creed. Entitled “My World,” the track accompanied the movie trailer and was featured on the album’s soundtrack. The track was also used to heavily promote 2018's Super Bowl. It demonstrated the versatility of one of Nashville’s unsung heroes in writing the right song for the right project.

Roberts says, "Country music is an entire novel written in three minutes. It’s a Broadway show in three minutes. It’s an entire lifetime in three minutes. A great country song can be a guiding post for someone’s life. It's been that way for me."

All the Right Songs track listing:

1. All the Right Songs

2. Don't Go Away

3. Alright With Me

4. If I Could Sleep

5. Gold

6. The Way West (Acoustic)