Ty Herndon Returns With New Album

Ty Herndon photo courtesy of Titan/Quarterback Records.

January 9, 2007 — Ty Herndon's first album in four years, Right About Now, along with its title track single, hits stores today. Ty has been absent from radio and concert stages in recent years after relapsing into drug addiction. "I just stopped making music completely," he recalls. "I lost all desire to take care of myself. I thought I had no reason to live."

When Ty didn't emerge from his apartment for days on end, alarmed friends intervened. After a month getting sober in a basement apartment at his mother's home, he entered a drug rehabilitation center, and this time, he meant business. "My father was an alcoholic, and it killed him," he says. "I did not want to be next."

Friends like Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes and Wynonna Judd rallied around Ty as he turned his life around and regained his health. Then two years ago, songwriter Darrell Brown invited Ty to a show at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. "He said he had a song that he and Michael Peterson had written that he thought I could sing really well," Ty says. "And that's 'Right About Now.' The crowd just came to their feet when I sang it. It was at that moment that I thought, 'I want to make music again.'"

Ty says the songs on his new album are a good reflection of his current emotional state. "Three years ago, I couldn't sing the way I used to," he says. "I can sing these songs now. My throat is clearer than it has ever been before, and that feeling is just awesome. This is a happy place to be."