Buckle up for Ben Gallaher‘s new single. The rising star just released the anthemic “Still A Few Cowboys Left,” which he wrote alongside tunesmiths Neil Thrasher and Tony Martin. The song, produced by Thrasher and his cousin, Patrick Thrasher, is in many ways the start of a new musical chapter for Gallaher as well.
“Certain songs find their way to raise their hand, and that was the case for this song,” Gallaher tells Everything Nash. “Personally, I believe there’s a lot of people that have some cowboy in them. Not in the literal sense; obviously I’m not a cowboy, but figuratively speaking, I have a lot of cowboy in me. And what makes a cowboy isn’t where you live, or how you look. It’s the type of person that you are, and where you’re headed. It’s grit and integrity and character. It’s all those things. And that’s what the song is.”
Gallaher, who has been writing with Thrasher since he moved to Nashville, was thrilled that the hit songwriters brought him the idea for “Still A Few Cowboys Left.”
“They brought me in on this idea and this song, and I just took to it,” Gallaher says. “I write so many songs all the time, being an artist and a writer. We’re picking from 400 songs for this first record that I’ve written. And sometimes certain songs just raise their hand at the right time, whether that’s from playing it live and it reacting so well, or it’s a social interaction, or your whole team is reacting, or a combination of all of that.”
After the release of songs like “Every Small Town,” “Country Boy” and more, Gallaher is excited about the new music coming, kicking off with “Still A Few Cowboys Left.”
“We were so aligned on pretty much everything. He just gets me, gets what I do,” Gallaher says of Thrasher. “We’ve written a ton of songs, and I’ve done a ton of demos with him. We had been talking about it since then, about going in and cutting a couple of songs. We had talked about that for some time, and it worked out for this group of songs, with ‘Still a Few Cowboys Left’ being the first one. He just gets what I do.
“We’re so aligned,” he continues. “And what’s crazy is, I grew up on a lot of those songs that he wrote. He wrote ‘There Goes My Life’ and ‘Flyover States’ and ‘Fast Cars and Freedom.’ I mean, the list goes on and on. And now we’re really good friends. It’s crazy how things work out in such an organic way too.”
Gallaher has been performing for years, both headlining his own shows, and opening for artists like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Jr., Blake Shelton, 3 Doors Down, Lee Brice and more. As soon as he performed “Still A Few Cowboys Left” for the first time, the Pennsylvania native knew he was onto something special.
“From the first time I played it, we would get applause after the first chorus,” Gallaher recalls. “The first time they heard ‘Still A Few Cowboys Left,’ I knew right then — and then it was show after show, whether it was acoustic or full band, there’d be people that were reacting right at that moment. It was like, ‘Man, this song is doing some work and it’s not even out.’ People had never heard it before, and I think that’s when you know have a special song. You write them every single day, and obviously they’re not always like that. So I’m really excited to get the song out to the world.”
Download or stream “Still A Few Cowboys Left” here. Find all of Gallaher’s music and upcoming shows at BenGallaher.com.