Chancey Williams’ One Of These Days album is out now. The former bronco rider, and now seasoned country music singer, wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on his new record, showing his evolution as a singer, songwriter and performer with the dozen songs on the project.

“I think this is the sixth album I’ve put out,” Williams tells Everything Nash. “I’ve been doing it over the years, just kind of here and there. Each time you put one out, you try to outdo your last one. Our last album, 3rd Street, I really loved.”

With One Of These Days, Williams wanted to show his fans, and maybe even himself, his continued growth as both a writer and artist.

“It’s stuff that I like to sing about,” Williams explains. “You probably write a lot more than you record. So we wrote a bunch, and we sifted through the ones we thought we liked the most for this album. … They just keep getting better each time we do one.”

Williams’ switch from being a bronco rider to focusing on country music wasn’t easy. The Wyoming native grew up at the rodeo, as the son of a successful saddle bronc rider, and thought his path was laid out for him, until he discovered his passion for music as well.

“I grew up rodeoing my whole life, ever since I was little,” Williams explains. “My dad rodeoed, and dad won Cheyenne in ’71. He rodeoed a long time. So me and my brothers all did the rodeo growing up, and I assumed that’s what I would do forever, I guess. But I started playing music, and I had to pick one that I could do for a long time. I felt like I could do music a lot longer than I could ride broncs, but it was tough. I had a decent career; I made the high school National Finals, and I made the college National Finals twice in the bronc riding.

“I felt like I could continue on and go to the PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association), and over time be successful,” he adds. “But music kind of took over that.  It was a hard decision to make to switch just to be a full-time singer.”

Fortunately, Williams had the support of his whole family, including his father, when he decided to pursue a country music career instead.

“I was even a pickup man for rodeos for a while too,” says the singer. “I was doing all three, and I think I was kind of doing mediocre at all three. And my dad said, ‘You gotta just pick one, and do it. … There’s only a certain age you can rodeo and be successful and you can do music a long time.’ So they were all supportive of me doing music.”

See a track list for One Of These Days below. Wiliams will make his Grand Ole Opry debut on April 22. Find One Of These Days and all of Williams’ music at ChanceyWilliams.com.

One Of These Days Track List:

1. The Saint (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
2. Bordertown Whiskey (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
3. One of These Days (Chancey Williams, Jody Stevens)
4. Look Good Leavin’ (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon, Bobby Pinson)
5. On the Tear Tonight (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
6. Blame It On the Rain (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
7. Hideaway (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
8. Land of the Buffalo (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
9. Only the Good Ones (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon, Bobby Pinson)
10. Talk About a Memory (Chancey Williams, Brice Long)
11. Rodeo Time (Chancey Williams, Trent Willmon)
12. If I Die Before You Wake (Dave Brainard, Dustin Evans, Rick Tiger)