PREMIERE: Coyle Girelli Unearths Lost Treasure with Video for 'Out of This Town' Written with Mac Davis

The title track from Coyle Girelli's latest album is a lost treasure that has finally seen the light of day. Written with Mac Davis, the British singer-songwriter worked with the legendary Elvis Presley songwriter to write the songs on his recently released Out of This Town before Davis died in 2020.

The two first met in 2013, when Mac Davis - impressed by Coyle’s vocals from his post-punk band The Chevin’s late night TV performance on Letterman - invited him to write together.

In 2014, when The Chevin, went on hiatus, Girelli took Davis up on his invitation. What followed next were nights of coffee, guitars, and a stack of Mac’s unrecorded lyrics on yellow legal pads scattered around his Los Angeles home.

Ten years later and those songs have finally been released on Out of This Town, an album which Girelli also produced that features 11 of the songs that he and Davis wrote together and fittingly, for a man who wrote hits like 'In The Ghetto' and 'A Little Less Conversation' for Elvis Presley, released on the Sun record label that Elvis called home for so many years.

The album plays like a black-and-white film: stark, cinematic country ballads rooted in lonely highways, small-town desperation, and dreamers searching for light. Coyle’s vocals anchor the record, joined by guest appearances from KT Tunstall, Jaime Wyatt, Cassandra Lewis, and even Mac Davis himself. A rare cross-generational collaboration, Out of This Town captures two voices — separated by eras but united in spirit — crafting something timeless.

Released in August, the album's title track now has a suitably rich and moody video to accompany a song that was inspired by a true life story that Mac Davis had told him during those writing sessions.

"Mac was back in his hometown of Lubbock, TX for 'Mac Davis Day' and he had asked for a limo to meet him after his show to take him to the airport," Coyle Girelli explains, about how the idea for the song came about. "The town didn’t own a limo…. so they sent a black hearse. Mac had to get to the airport for his flight, so he had to take the hearse and sit in the front (since he couldn’t sit in the back, obviously) with a young, 19-year-old driver. Before they get to the airport, the driver pulls over and asks Mac how he got out of the town and Mac replies, 'I wrote songs, worked hard and got a little bit of luck and that’s how I got out of this town.' The kid replies 'I can’t even whistle, let alone write songs… I’m never going to get out of this town. I’m going to die in this town.'

Watch the video below