Chase Rice Reunites With Florida Georgia Line For ‘Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen.’
Their first collaboration was the mega-hit "Cruise."
Chase Rice and Florida Georgia Line are teaming up once again for a new single called “Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen.,” out today (Nov. 30). The song is a reflective good time tune that finds Rice and FGL singing about a night sitting around the fire and having deep discussions with friends. The song was written by Rice, Hunter Phelps, Corey Crowder and Cale Dodds before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the tune turned out relating to what many people, including Rice, have experienced this year.
“I’ve done so much of that this year that it’s really cool to see something that we wrote last year talk so much about what we ended up doing this year, which, for me, has been drinking a lot of beer, hanging around a lot of fires, having deep conversations with people, whether it’s about God or not, and getting to know people,” he told Sounds Like Nashville in an exclusive interview.
The lyrics of the song especially emphasize the need to get back to the basics of life in the chorus when Rice and FGL sing, “When the world’s gone crazy, man, it all makes sense / Sittin’ here, drinkin’ beer, talkin’ God, amen.”
“Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen.” is the first time Rice and Florida Georgia Line have collaborated on a song since Rice co-wrote FGL’s debut hit, “Cruise,” which was released in 2012. Rice says that he and FGL’s Brian Kelley were originally in contact about simply producing the new single together before deciding to duet on the track. With Rice and Kelley knowing one another since their little league days, and with the three men being friends before any of them saw success in the music business, collaborating again now feels like a full-circle moment.
“It’s really cool that they took me in when I moved to Nashville, and we started writing songs a lot together and I learned a lot from those guys back then,” Rice shared. “Then they went on about their business and had their own success, and that was cool for me too because it taught me that I can’t just rely on them to have success; that I need to go out and earn it on my own and learn who I am as a writer and as an artist. I did that, and then all of a sudden, ten years later, here we are back working together. It’s really special.”
The song will appear on a new project by Rice, out early next year, which will serve as Part III of The Album. Rice released the seven-song The Album Part I in January, followed by The Album Part II, a four-song project released in May. The singer says that fans can also expect some writing collaborations between himself and FGL’s Kelley and Tyler Hubbard.
“Tyler and I have been writing. Brian and I will get back to writing,” he shares. “I doubt that we’ll do any more collabs, at least for a while, but there will be a bunch of songs that we’ll be writing together, I have no doubt.”
