Scotty McCreery‘s “Fall of Summer” was just released as his second single from Rise and Fall, but he’s already been playing it on the road for months. The 30-year-old just shared a video of him performing the song, which was the most-added at radio when it was released, while in Boston on his Cab in A Solo Tour.
Perhaps ironically, it was one of the lines in “Fall of Summer,” a song he wrote with Brent Anderson, Derek George, Frank Rogers and Monty Criswell, which inspired McCreery to name his latest record Rise and Fall.
“Every album until this one, I’ve just picked a song title that I thought represented kind of where we’re at or the lead single,” McCreery said at a media event earlier this year. “But this one, something felt different, and I didn’t think there was a song title that totally captured the feeling that I had for the whole project. And I’m old school; I know it’s a single-driven world nowadays, but I want my album to tell a story, start to finish.
“I want it to be a cohesive unit,” he added. “And I didn’t feel like there was one title that did that. So I was just listening down to the songs, probably on a plane to California or something. I was listening to ‘Fall of Summer’ and I heard, ‘Here’s to the rise and fall of summer,’ and I thought, ‘Rise and Fall.’”
McCreery performed “Fall of Summer” as part of his Grand Ole Opry induction in April.
“This night is just, it’s unbelievable. It really is,” McCreery said after Josh Turner made him the newest member. “My mama came to the Opry in 1978. Whispering Bill was playing that night, and I heard stories of the Opry, and heard the Opry, and have such a deep respect for this tradition, and the history of the Opry.
“If you listened to any of my interviews for the last 13 years of doing this, they’d say, ‘What’s your biggest goal in doing any of this?’ and I would always say, ‘One day I want to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry,'” he added. “I gotta go home and start writing a new bucket list.”
“Fall of Summer” follows “Cab In A Solo,” which became McCreery’s sixth No. 1 hit.
“It’s one of my favorites I’ve written in a long time,” McCreery previously told Everything Nash of the song. “We went up to the mountains in North Carolina, just me and a bunch of buddies; guitars, cold beer and fireplaces. We sat outside and wrote songs. We wrote a bunch that weekend.
“But when I was driving back in the mountains, and even since then, I kept going back to ‘Cab In A Solo,’” he continued. “I kept going back to it. To me, that meant, ‘Oh, there’s something here.’ Luckily, everybody else loved it, and the label.”
Rise and Fall, which debuted at No. 1 when it was released, was just named one of Billboard‘s 50 Best Albums 2024 (So Far). Find “Fall of Summer” and all of the songs on Rise and Fall, plus all of McCreery’s upcoming shows at ScottyMcCreery.com.