Artwork Different Night Same Rodeo
Different Night Same Rodeo Album ∙ Country ∙ 2025 Bailey Zimmerman Before becoming a country star, the 25-year-old from small-town Southern Illinois worked at the local meat processing plant, laid gas pipelines, and promoted his fledgling truck-lift business on TikTok. Then a video Zimmerman casually uploaded—covering Black Stone Cherry’s “Stay” between truck builds—went viral, and by December 2020, he’d written his first song. Cue the record deal, the Morgan Wallen co-sign, the world tour, and the double-platinum debut full-length (2023’s Religiously. The Album. ). But as he reminds you on the rowdy “New to Country,” he’s still the same whiskey-sipping, ATV-riding country boy, emphasizing in his raspy drawl: “Ain’t a thing changed ’round here but the money.” Written fresh after a breakup, Religiously was rife with ballads about the pain of lost love. On its follow-up, Zimmerman sings a different tune. “When I first started writing songs, my life was like heartbreak,” ...
