Darryl Worley photo courtesy of Stroudavarious Records.
June 25, 2009 — With a 15-month-old daughter at home, Darryl Worley had a whole new set of circumstances to work with when he started building his new album, Sounds Like Life.
And he did address it on the CD, but not as much as he could have. A number of songwriters pitched him music about children, and he tried to be picky about which ones he took. The topic of raising kids does "seep in" on the album, as GAC’s Suzanne Alexander put it, but that’s as far as Darryl would let it go.
"That’s exactly what it is: It’s seeping in," Darryl told her on the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. "I’ve heard those songs that seem to be somewhat contrived, and I would listen to ‘em and I would think, ‘Man, I hope I never fall victim to that.’ But man, when you have somethin' so life-changing, it just seems like it would be such a sad thing to not let that emotion come out in a song. So I’ve tried to write a few things. I didn’t want this whole album to be nothin’ but that."
The topic of having a kid is, in fact, just one of many addressed in the album’s first single, "Sounds Like Life To Me." It’s at No. 24 on this week’s USA Today Mediabase country singles chart.
Darryl is GAC’s Artist of the Month for June. And he’s featured alongside John Anderson on GAC Nights Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.
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