Born Here Live Here Die Here is the seventh studio album by American country music singer Luke Bryan. It was released on August 7, 2020, by Capitol Nashville. The album includes the singles "Knockin' Boots", "What She Wants Tonight", "One Margarita", and "Down to One". A deluxe edition with six extra songs, including the album's fifth single "Waves" and its sixth single, "Up", was released on April 9, 2021.
The album debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the US Top Country Albums charts, earning 65,000 album-equivalent units (of which 48,000 were pure album sales) in its first week.
Background
"Knockin' Boots" was released on April 8, 2019 as the debut single from Bryan's seventh studio album. "What She Wants Tonight" was released on October 24, 2019 as the second single. In January 2020 during an Instagram Live video, Bryan announced the name of the album would be Born Here Live Here Die Here. In February 2020, Bryan released the title track, the album's track listing and announced it would be released on April 24, 2020. On March 13, 2020, "One Margarita" was released, and it would later be sent to country radio on April 13, 2020, after Capitol Nashville and Bryan postponed the album's release to August 7, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 12, 2020, Bryan released the track "Build Me a Daddy" along with a music video for the song.
Commercial performance
Born Here Live Here Die Here debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 65,000 album-equivalent units (of which 48,000 were pure album sales) in its first week. This became Bryan's eleventh US top-ten album. The album also debuted at number one on the US Top Country Albums chart, becoming Bryan's ninth number one album on this chart.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.
Musicians
Luke Bryan – lead vocals
Perry Coleman – background vocals
J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar
David Dorn – keyboards
Eddy Dunlap – pedal steel , dobro
Kyle Fishman – programming
Mark Hill – bass guitar
Evan Hutchings – drums , percussion
Kirk "Jellyroll" Johnson – harmonica
Charlie Judge – keyboards , Hammond B3 , Wurlitzer electric piano
Rob McNelley – electric guitar
Jake Mitchell – electric guitar
Greg Morrow – drums
Chancie Neal – background vocals
Justin Ostrander – electric guitar
Matt Rogers – background vocals
Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar
Jody Stevens – programming , acoustic guitar , electric guitar , banjo , bass guitar Ilya Toshinskiy – acoustic guitar , banjo Derek Wells – electric guitar John Willis – acoustic guitar , mandolin