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[email protected] Rhett’s ‘Light’ Shines Sunday Drive Launches New Part Of >page 4 Artistic Journey For Brett Eldredge Edison Issues Media Wakeup Call “Sometimes you gotta lose yourself to find your way back home.” rock, traditional pop and modern country, but the frame around it >page 10 That line from “Paris, Illinois,” the closing number on Brett has a classic air, matching a journey he took leading into the proj- Eldredge’s new album, Sunday Drive, is a familiar sort of prod- ect that involved temporarily shutting off social media, spend- igal journey. It harks back a bit to Miranda Lambert’s “The ing time alone and using meditation to generate more calmness House That Built Me,” which went in his life. Adkins: ‘Tell Jesus to No. 1 10 years ago, the same “We created the space to allow I Said, “Hey” ’ summer that Eldredge’s first sin- myself to sing and to tell these >page 11 gle, “Raymond,” was released to stories,” he says. “It feels more re- country radio via PlayMPE. laxed. It feels at home, like I just “Raymond” leaned on El- belonged in this spot, and when I dredge’s personal history, inspired sing it, it feels like that, too. And not Kip Moore by his grandmother’s battle with that the other stuff doesn’t, but it Goes ‘Wild’ On ABC Alzheimer’s disease. And Sunday really has been a profound expe- >page 11 Drive, released July 10, similarly rience for me in getting that space tugs on his own life as he intention- and telling these stories.” ally embraces a more transparent The “other stuff” did well for Makin’ Tracks: approach to his art at the start of Eldredge.