Just announced! Bringing this new album to a couple of my favorite record stores in a couple of weeks. Come join me and the boys for these free in-store performances and album signings.Thanks for all the love on the new record, and Iโll see you there!
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Thomas Csorba has announced the May 22 release of his new album Tender Country via the newly-launched Turtlebox Records. His third studio album, Tender Country, is country music uninterested in posturing, guided instead by tenderness, humor, and an acceptance of impermanence. That mentality comes across acutely in his new single, "The Big Time," a gorgeous country ballad that poignantly illustrates the hardships of a life on the road and the family milestones you can miss along the way.
Csorba on the new single: "This song is the most honest song on the record. Itโs a song that sits right there on the edge of the cliff of giving up. I figured thereโs no other way to start but by addressing the elephant in the room. How does someone who values his stable home life and family reconcile that with his life as a travelling musician?"
Born in Houston, Texas and now rooted in Dallas, Thomas Csorba writes country music that feels less like performance and more like witness. His work belongs to the long lineage of Texas songwriters who understand that restraint can carry more weight than spectacle, and that the quietest lines are often the ones that speak the loudest. Where Csorbaโs songwriting once ย felt bound up in identity and ambition, it now exists alongside fatherhood and marriage with its value sharpened by the fact that it must be protected, chosen, and earned.
That shift is on full display in Tender Country. Self-produced and recorded in a matter of days with trusted collaborators, the album eases away from the chase and instead finds the courage to document life as it is being lived.The songs on Tender Country are deeply invested in the emotional architecture of family life. Marriage, routine, fatigue, joy, and discovery are all treated with equal seriousness. In Csorbaโs hands, washing dishes and falling in love again become similar acts of quiet devotion.
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