The long-awaited 14-track collection, produced by noted Nashville producer Chip Matthews, represents the band's longstanding ties to Music City, which date back to 2005 and include collaborations with all-star songwriters Lee Brice, Luke Laird, and Hillary Lindsey. Fans ordering the CD at the live shows or the digital album from iTunes will receive an instant download of “We Got It All Tonight,” the album’s debut single written by Music Row stalwarts Chris DeStefano, Ashley Gorley and 2015 BMI Songwriter of the Year Rodney Clawson. More information and the new music is available for you here  password: sister

As their lucky 13th album release, it also ties together the many threads that make up the band’s tapestry: the restless, road-hungry rush of “Fall Off The Map” and “Run Highway Run,” the deep-country dive of “Prettiest Girl At The Dance,” and the sentiment and swagger of “Take It With Me.”  It adds up to 14 tracks, most of them co-written by members of the band. They also draw from the talents of guest artists too. You can’t miss Darius Rucker’s voice on “Karaoke Song.” Sister Hazel has been playing the song live for a while, ever since Rucker, Copeland, and Nashville songwriter Barry Dean put it together.

The band embraces their roots and Florida music influences wholeheartedly. Each member of the group is involved in writing and performing their songs and the result is a culmination of 20 years of friendship and musical sentiments.

"And we’ve always been unclassifiable,”Jett Beres concludes. “We’ll put out a record and go, ‘What is it? Is it country music? Is it Southern rock? Is it pop? is it college acoustic, alternative?’ It doesn’t matter! It’s just us doing what we’ve always done. We’re writing about who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going. And we’ve never done it as well as we have on Lighter In The Dark.”

Lighter In The Dark Track List:

1. Fall off the Map
2. That Kind of Beautiful
3. Karaoke Song (featuring Darius Rucker)
4. Something to Believe In
5. Kiss Me Without Whiskey
6. Almost Broken
7. Take It With Me
8. We Got It All Tonight
9. Danger is Real
10. Prettiest Girl at the Dance
11. Thoroughbred Heart
12. Run Highway Run
13. Back to Me
14. Ten Candle Days

Production credits for Lighter In The Dark include Chip Matthews, “Thoroughbred Heart” produced by Ryan Newell, and “Ten Candle Days” produced by Ryan Newell and Jett Beres.

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