DEEP-FEELING TRACK “FORGOTTEN MAN” MARKS THE START OF A NEW CHAPTER FOLLOWING PLATINUM NUMBER ONE, “MY BOY”
Marking the first new music since Wheelhouse Records singer/songwriter Elvie Shane’s acclaimed “Backslider” album debut, Shane shares his new song “Forgotten Man”. An anthem for those chasing the American dream with calloused hands and a weary, but still-believing heart, it’s another example of Shane’s deep-feeling take on country, co-written by the rising star with Dan Couch, LukePreston, and Oscar Charles.
With his big-hearted Platinum Number One “My Boy”, Elvie Shane showed fans the kind of man he is – one who’ll step forward and stand for what he believes in. He calls “Forgotten Man” “the song I’ve been trying to write since I started all this,” and it finds him representing those hard-working, willing-to-sacrifice folks he’s met around the nation. But while that mission has been taken on many times before, it’s never been done quite like this.
“There’s been a lot of a lot of attempts to recognize that group of people in country music, but sometimes it feels like it’s not a very honest representation of the angst that’s involved,” Shane explains. “It doesn’t ever really touch on how pissed off you can be, just trying to find the American dream.”
Full of tough-as-nails grit and featuring an up-tempo, heartland-rock sound, the tune tributes those who wear their name on a patch like a badge of honor. Matching raw power and fist-in-the-air-pride with a deep sense of sympathetic camaraderie, it once again finds Shane going against the grain in country music, and going beyond the surface level.
Shane admits the track came from a time of personal struggle, and the clarity he found in front-row fans around the country. So, with more new music to come, it hints at a creative re-awakening – one focused above all on the honesty of the “Forgotten Man.”
“I’m wearing that patch, too,” he says. “I’m out here trying to give an honest account of who I am and put an honest effort into what I do. I actually do care, and I will place my bet on those people I’m singing about in this song against all odds.”
” Forgotten Man” is Shane’s first original solo release since 2021’s “Backslider” album, and now points toward the beginning of a new musical chapter (with more info on the way). But recently, he’s been on a collaborative hot streak.
ABOUT ELVIE SHANE:
A native of small-town Kentucky, early touchstones like Dwight Yoakam , Steve Earle and John Fogerty joined Wheelhouse Records’ Elvie Shane’s Gospel roots to form the bedrock of his taste – along with R&B classics like The Temptations and modern superstars like Eminem. And after a fateful Baptist revival came through town, he joined a band as a front man full of wild-eyed charisma. Shane initially captured attention with a viral social media moment with “My Boy”, which has since become his signature smash and debut US No. 1 single. The BMG/BBR Music Group recording artist’s debut EP, “County Roads”, was released in 2021, followed by his debut full length album, ” Backslider”, later that same year. Shane co-wrote the set of songs on “Backslider” that critics were quick to praise, with the album landing on 2021 “Best Of” lists including Billboard, Rolling Stone and Nashville Scene. Shane’s picture-based lyrics and knack for storytelling led to his signing with UTA and he has since opened for Jason Aldean, Toby Keith, BrothersOsborne, Brett Young, Brooks & Dunn and Lady A, to name a few. He also launched his first-ever headlining run, with his US My Kinda Trouble Tour, earlier this year.