Chris Young Looks Backward With Voices EP

In taking an opening slot on Alan Jackson’s current Freight Train Tour, Chris Young has the opportunity to spend a decent amount of time with one of his heroes. He’ll pay homage to three more with a three-song digital release, Voices EP.


The project, set to be released through iTunes on Tuesday, finds him doing acoustic versions of three 1980s classics: John Anderson’s 1983 hit “Swingin’,” Vern Gosdin’s 1989 standard “Chiseled In Stone” and Keith Whitley’s “I’m Over You,” a hit in 1990 that Whitley recorded in the weeks prior to his death in May 1989.

“There’s a song on my current album called ‘Voices’ — it’s my next single — and we decided to name this EP Voices, too,” Chris says. “One of the reasons we did that is because these are really the voices that inspired me musically. If you go through a list of some of my favorite artists, these guys are at the top.”

An interesting choice of words, since Chris is at the top at the moment. “The Man I Want To Be,” the title track of his current album, is at No. 1 for a second straight week on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Chris will certainly do that song, and maybe one or two of the Voices covers, this weekend as he heads back on the road with Alan and Josh Turner. They’re set to play University Park, Pa., on Friday; Charleston, W.Va., on Saturday; and Lexington, Ky., on Sunday.