Chase Rice Shares Throwback Photo As A Tribute To His Mom

Chase Rice is getting ready to pay tribute to his mother after displaying his late father’s photo as the artwork of his latest full-length album.

The singer-songwriter offered a range of emotions on “the best album of my career,” I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go To Hell, which arrived in February 2023. Rice shared on Monday (May 6) that his album “was the start of a whole new creative life for me.” Since then, he said others have asked whether his next project will be similar.

The short answer? “Yes,” he confirmed.

“This next album for me will be a bit of a continuation to close out this new process of how I write songs and record them,” Rice wrote in a caption on Instagram as he posted a throwback photo of his parents. “This is just the very beginning of my next full album, which to me is another level up from the Cowboys record. The theme continues with some pictures of my childhood and not only what got me here today, but who did. My dad gets a lot of the credit for being on the cover of my last record, but now it’s my mom’s turn, and mannnnn wasn’t she a smoke!!!”

Rice said the photo is the artwork for “Fireside,” a song that releases on Friday (May 10).

“This one just took a lot out of me,” Rice said as he released I Hate Cowboys & All Dogs Go To Hell. “Hates in the title but love is the theme. I’ve learned a lot from so many of my screw ups, and this is just the start of that. Selfishly, I may have done this one more for me than for anybody, but I hope more than anything that y’all love it. Thanks to everybody for the ride so far.”

The “Key West & Colorado” hitmaker admitted last year that it “scares the sh*t” out of him to start writing new music again after releasing such a personal album months earlier. He said at that time: “Just tryin be real with y'all, starting the writing that's gonna follow the I Hate Cowboys album scares the sh*t outta me. Tonight's a good place to start. I love y'all, and thank you for loving this new music. It's helping me through a lot of sh*t right now. I feel like it's about to get even more real and personal, I hope y'all love it, it ain't the most comfortable but damn it's fun.”

“It's very, very personal to me with these songs,” Rice previously told iHeartRadio, “and much more vulnerable than any other music I've made.”