Russell Dickerson Reveals He Has Three Unreleased Collaborations with Brandon Lake

During a new interview with Holler, Russell Dickerson has revealed he has been working on music with Brandon Lake, with RD outlining that he has co-written “three” tracks with Lake.

Despite hailing from the Contemporary Christian Music world, Lake has been venturing further and further into the country sphere through collaborations with the likes of Jelly Roll (‘Hard Fought Hallelujah’) and Cody Johnson (‘When a Cowboy Prays’).

At the start of the year, Lake hosted a writers retreat with a range of leading country hitmakers, including Dickerson, Lainey Wilson, Thomas Rhett, Dan + Shay, Bailey Zimmerman and more. The first track to arrive from those sessions, ’Just Believe’ with Zimmerman, dropped in March, with the next single, ‘The Jesus I Know Now’ with Wilson, set to be made available on Good Friday (April 3rd).

Excitingly, it seems Dickerson and Lake have more than one collaboration up their sleeves, with RD telling Holler while in London for C2C Festival 2026, “Yeah, we're working on...I mean, we actually have like three that we're kind of tossing around. Just figuring out which one is the right one. I brought him in on a song that I had already started, and he wrote on that. And then we wrote one together - we wrote a couple together. So I don't know, we're just kind of tossing them back, feeling out what the vibe is on each one. Like, is it me? Is it him? Is it both of us?”

Judging by what RD is saying here, it sounds like they're narrowing down one single to release as an official collaboration, and perhaps the others will drop later on, or maybe they'll be kept as solo tracks, with the other artist simply getting a writing credit.

There is one unreleased song, called ’Amazing Place’ - seemingly a play on the classic Christian hymn, ’Amazing Grace’ - listed on ASCAP with Dickerson, Lake, Chase McGill and Parker Welling all co-writers. We suspect this is the top candidate for a collaboration in the coming weeks, given the fact that they've registered it on ASCAP.

Elsewhere in his conversation with Holler, Dickerson touches on how faith and spirituality have always been crucial influences on his music, “That's just who I am. And, you know, when ‘Yours’ came out, I got turned down by record labels and stuff. They were like, ‘This sounds like a worship song!’ I was like, ‘Well, you're not wrong...’ It's like, that's just kind of part of who I am, and the sound that I have, I guess”.

Interestingly, ‘Just Believe’ was released with Zimmerman as the lead artist, perhaps dampening rumours that Lake is readying a full-blown country crossover album, in the mould of Chris Tomlin's stunning 2020 collaborative project, Chris Tomlin & Friends, which featured Dickerson, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett and more.

We imagine we'll know more about the long-term intentions behind these country-Christian duets once we see whether Lake is the lead artist on ’The Jesus I Know Now’ with Wilson. Perhaps they're just standalone releases, rather than being part of a broader project. Either way, spirituality has always been a pivotal part of the fabric of country music, and we're welcoming more from Lake in this vein.

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