Out Of This Town Coyle Girelli

• 1 Out Of This Town 03:06
• 2 It Only Hurts When I'm Awake 03:21
• 3 Lost To The River 02:54
• 4 Like Only A Woman Can 03:32
• 5 I'm On Fire 02:45
• 6 I Wanna Make Love 03:47
• 7 Mary In The Moonlight 03:38
• 8 Everyone But Me And You 03:35
• 9 Pretty 03:11
• 10 Already Gone 03:25
• 11 Never Thought I'd See You Again 02:34
• 12 I Wanna Make Love 03:30
• Total Runtime 39:18

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Eleven years ago, recording artist and platinum-selling songwriter, composer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Coyle Girelli collaborated with Grammy-winning songwriter, artist, and actor Mac Davis on a potential duets album. Davis died in 2020, and the album stayed unfinished until now.

Out of This Town was produced by Girelli, and keeps to the original duets’ intent with standout pairings, featuring KT Tunstall, Jaime Wyatt, and Cassandra Lewis. Out of This Town offers an intimate look at Girelli’s artistry while honouring Davis’ legacy, and it couldn’t come out on a more fitting label than the iconic Sun Records, once home to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and more.

“Beyond the music was the human connection,” the British-born, New York-based artist said. “I knew Mac as a music legend, but what I found working closely with him at his home was one of the most kind, creative, and generous souls I’ve ever met. Collaborating with him was beautiful and real.”

While Out of This Town features several songs from Davis’ personal backlog, more than half of the songs were co-written by Davis and Girelli. The album’s stark and captivating sound spotlights Girelli’s soulful vocals, which share tales of shattered hearts, lost souls, and eternally restless dreamers. Notably, the album also features two versions of the song “I Wanna Make Love” — one of which was produced from a phone recording Davis made and sent to Girelli and is one of the last original recordings by the legendary artist.

On paper, Girelli and Davis could not be more different. Girelli is an English indie-rock musician best known as the frontman for the bands Your Vegas and The Chevin. In addition, Girelli has composed for BTS, Robin Schultz, Westlife, and co-written the record-breaking French musicals, Robin des Bois and Les Trois Mousquetaires. Davis is a Lubbock, Texas-born musician best known for penning Elvis Presley hits such as “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation.” Davis also had a successful solo career with songs like “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” and he hosted The Mac Davis Show, acted in films, and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The pair started working with a bag full of Davis’ handwritten lyrics on yellow legal pads. The musicians sat together with their guitars, and the songs flowed. Davis even equated Girelli’s powerful voice to Roy Orbison, and declared him the only one fit to sing these songs the way they should be sung.

The album represents a meeting of two artists from different generations who became deeply connected by their outstanding songwriting gifts and love of a voice that penetrates the heart and soul. The unique combination of original tracks co-written by Girelli and Davis and never-recorded work from Davis’ bag of songs envelopes the listener in a deeply moving and timeless journey.

On the lead single, “Pretty,” Girelli presents a hypnotic outpouring of unrequited longing, achieving a cinematic grandeur solely through his pained yet soaring vocals and elegantly layered guitar work.

Throughout his kaleidoscopic career, Girelli has emerged as a singular voice in modern music, blending cinematic scope with raw emotional intensity across genres. Whether crafting soaring rock anthems, haunting ballads, or theatrical works, his music channels timeless storytelling through a lens that’s as expansive as it is intimate. Since the arrival of his 2018 solo debut, Love Kills, he has channelled his multifaceted sensibilities into a series of acclaimed albums and captivating musical-theatre projects, including the recently staged off-Broadway immersive-theatre production, True Love Forever, which was based on Love Kills.

"Described as a “soul-stirring” album, ‘Out Of This Town’ is an example of country music at its finest. Stirring, emotional, heartwrenching, everything about this album demonstrates an artist who is at the top of their game. Of course, you could say that, with someone as iconic in the genre as Mac Davis by your side, you had better be on fire. Listening to this album, it’s impossible to find any drop in the quality from Girelli and, when it wraps up with Mac’s version of “I Wanna Make Love” featuring the man himself, the master and his pupil side by side forms the perfect way to sign off this stunning album." (Graham Finney, totalntertainment.com)

Coyle Girelli, vocals, guitar, pedal steel
KT Tunstall, vocals (track 3)
Cassandra Lewis, vocals (track 8)
Jaime Wyatt, vocals (track 11)
Mac Davis, vocals (track 12)

Coyle Girelli
Over the course of his kaleidoscopic career, Coyle Girelli has emerged as one of modern music’s last remaining true romantics, capable of bringing an otherworldly beauty and all-consuming drama to the most intimate of feelings. Since the arrival of his 2018 solo debut Love Kills, the British singer/songwriter has channeled his timeless sensibilities into a series of acclaimed albums and forward-thinking musical-theater projects, including the recently launched immersive-theater show True Love Forever. A first-rate melodist who got his start as frontman for beloved indie-rock band Your Vegas, the New York City-based artist is now set to deliver Out of This Town: a selection of gorgeously haunting country-folk songs co-written with the legendary Mac Davis, adding an entirely new dimension to Girelli’s wildly expansive body of work.

Released via Sun Records (the iconic Memphis label once home to Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and more), Out of This Town first took shape during Girelli’s stint as an in-demand co-writer (a turn of events that found him penning songs for the likes of global superstars BTS). After meeting up with Davis for a session at his Los Angeles home in 2014, Girelli felt an immediate connection with the Texas-born country hitmaker, whose own writing credits include classic songs like Presley’s “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation.” Within a few months, the two musicians began working on a duet album, but failed to finish the LP prior to Davis’ death in September 2020. Completed by Girelli and featuring several songs from Davis’ personal backlog, Out of This Town ultimately centers on a stark but spellbinding sound that spotlights Girelli’s soulful vocals while preserving the visceral impact of the project’s demos—a fitting backdrop for the duo’s elegiac tales of shattered hearts, lost souls, and eternally restless dreamers.

Produced by Girelli, Out of This Town comprises 11 songs whose sparse instrumentation profoundly magnifies the raw emotion at the heart of every track. On lead single “Pretty,” for instance, Girelli presents a hypnotic outpouring of unrequited longing, achieving a cinematic grandeur solely through his pained yet soaring vocals and elegantly layered guitar work. Along with a number of A-list duets (including KT Tunstall, Jaime Wyatt, and Cassandra Lewis), Out of This Town includes standouts like “Already Gone”: the first song Girelli and Davis ever wrote together. “I had no idea what to expect before I met Mac—he’s written some of the most famous songs of all time, and I wondered if his process was going to be very methodical,” Girelli recalls. “But instead we both just sat with our guitars, and ‘Already Gone’ came together so quickly and naturally.” A testament to the extraordinary power of their musical chemistry, “Already Gone” arrives as a lived-in portrait of romantic tragedy, equal parts devastating and strangely glorious.

As Girelli reveals, the experience of collaborating with Davis indelibly reshaped his identity as an artist and set him on a whole new musical path. “I’d been in an indie-rock band since I was a kid, but I’d always loved the big heartbreak songs of the ’50s and ’60s,” he says. “The songs I wrote with Mac opened my mind in an incredible way, and I realized this was the type of music my voice was built to sing.” When it came time to create his first solo album, Girelli embraced the baroque emotionality of mid-century rock & roll while tapping into his own left-of-center musicality (an element informed by his ardent love for art-pop iconoclast Kate Bush). Not only a major artistic breakthrough, Love Kills led to an auspicious new chapter in his career. “When I was done with the record, I could clearly envision it as a piece of theater,” says Girelli, a lifelong theater enthusiast who’d previously co-composed a pair of award-winning French musicals (2013’s Robin Des Bois and 2016’s Les Trois Mousquataries). After partnering with immersive-theater company Third Rail Projects, he transformed a selection of songs from Love Kills into the foundation for True Love Forever—an ongoing show that opened with a run of sold-out performances in fall 2024, offering audiences a multilayered exploration of love and dating in the modern era.

Originally from Otley (a small town in West Yorkshire, England), Girelli partly attributes the moody temperament of his music to a childhood spent near the moors of the Yorkshire Dales—a majestic and rugged landscape that served as inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. As a teenager he taught himself to play guitar and started writing songs of his own, drawing from an eclectic musical upbringing that included everything from Britpop to Bruce Springsteen to opera. (“As someone who’s obsessed with melody, I’ve found that Italian operas contain some of the best melodies ever written,” he notes.) Formed when Girelli and his bandmates were still in high school, Your Vegas relocated from their hometown to New York City in the mid-2000s, promptly landed a deal with a major label, and then made their debut with A Town and Two Cities—a 2008 release featuring the exhilarating “In My Head,” a No. 1 hit on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation.

After Your Vegas parted ways in 2010, Girelli co-founded The Chevin: an alt-rock band who toured with the likes of Franz Ferdinand and took the stage at leading festivals like Lollapalooza, Firefly Music Festival, and Live at Leeds. Following the release of their 2012 album Borderland, The Chevin made the late-night talk-show rounds and appeared on Conan and The Late Show with David Letterman (a performance that caught Davis’ attention and inspired him to contact Girelli about a possible collaboration). Before embarking on his solo career, Girelli also made his name as a co-writer, lending his lyrical and melodic talents to songs by artists like Daisy the Great and Echosmith and often working with such elite producer/songwriters as Linda Perry and Amy Allen. Over the past few years, he’s released a string of solo albums (including 2022’s Funland and 2023’s Museum Day) and expanded his work in the theater world—an endeavor that most recently found him composing the lyrics and music for a musical adaptation of Michael Poore’s cult-hit fantasy novel Reincarnation Blues.

With his latest output encompassing the True Love Forever EP—a 2025 release comprised of six songs from the show, including the exquisitely jangly lead single “You”—Girelli points out that writing songs for theater provides an increasingly rare opportunity to fully accommodate the scope of his vision. “Because of streaming, it’s impossible to guarantee that anyone will listen to an album in a particular order these days,” he says. “Theater feels like the last place that a songwriter can create a whole world for the listener, then walk them through that world in the way that you intended.” And for Girelli, that potential for transcendence has always fueled his creative impulses. “From the beginning I wrote instinctively, as therapy: writings songs made me feel euphoric, which was an amazing thing to have as an outlet as a slightly troubled teenager,” he says. “To this day I still write by pure instinct—I’ll be daydreaming and all of a sudden a melody will arrive, and I’ll build the song from there. It’s just a matter of staying open and letting it all come through.”

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