EXCLUSIVE: Abbey Cone Shares the Title Track to New Album Greener Ahead of its Release

Born into a rodeo family in Argyle, Texas, Abbey Cone began making regular trips to Nashville at the age of 12 before leaving home when she was 16 to move there and she's done everything you'd expect from a country singer in the years since then since then.

She's played the Grand Ole Opry, notched up a viral hit, signed a major label deal and walked away from a major label deal, curated her own Nashville writer’s round series, been named one of CMT's Next Women of Country, sung background vocals for Brittney Spencer's Tiny Desk Concert, toured with Mickey Guyton, Morgan Wade and Kimberly Perry, collaborated with Vince Gill, Lori McKenna, Shane McAnally, Nicolle Gallyon and Jessie Jo Dillon, and even found time to fall in love and fall back out of love again.

What emerged from all that was Greener, a full-length debut album that finds Abbey Cone making sense of broken hearts and new beginnings and embracing an independent spirit in everything she does.

Beginning with 'If You Were a Song,' that aforementioned viral hit that currently stands at over 17m Spotify streams, the album tells the chronological story of Abbey falling in and out of love, beginning with the unmatched highs of all-out infatuation but then quickly pivoting to the anxiety, melancholy and grief of loss. It includes the previously released ode to lighting up when you’re feeling down featuring Joy Oladokun, 'this little lighter of mine (joy version)' and delusional girl anthem 'I Hate Springsteen,' which includes an electrifying guitar solo from John Osborne of the Brothers Osborne.

She goes through all the messy emotions involved in the fallout from a breakup - including that moment when you finally meet someone new on 'i kissed my friend last night' - but she has to wait until the very last track of Greener for the closure she needs. Finally happy in a new relationship, on the EP's closing title track Abbey speaks directly to her ex, acknowledging that while it may not have worked out for them, she hopes that he finds the same happiness that she eventually did.

"‘Greener’ was one of the last songs I wrote for this album, and I knew it had to be the title track," Abbey Cone says. "Writing this song was healing for me... it felt like letting go. I hope that it finds ears that need to hear it.”

"I hope you fall so hard for someone new it makes you realise how wrong I was for you / I hope it feels like it was meant to be," she sings on the chorus, channeling the classic country stoics of yesteryear and the cathartic, heart-on-your-sleeve country tinged pop of artists like Morgan Wade and Kelsea Ballerini set against a sonic backdrop that blends the moony, soul soothing folktronica of cottage-core era Taylor Swift with the simple straight-from-the-heart storytelling of Music City's finest songwriters. "Like it all makes sense / Like you can finally breathe / I hope it's all the sweeter when you finally meet her and you see the grass was always greener."

"It's the full spectrum of human emotion," says Abbey about the new album. "It's about grieving someone and falling in love with someone else at the same time. It's about discovering that the grass really is greener on the other side."

Listen to 'Greener' below.

Greener is released on 11th April.