JT Harker Unleashes New Music “Drunk People,” His Highly-Anticipated Third Single via Stepside Records Nashville

Nashville, TN – Next Friday, June 5th, singer-songwriter JT Harker will drop a brand-new single, “Drunk People,” his third release since signing a recording deal with Nashville imprint, Stepside Records.

At the helm of the production is GRAMMY-nominated producer/songwriter Derek George (Blake Shelton, Randy Houser, Jerrod Niemann, Rascal Flatts, Joe Nichols, Trace Adkins), who’s produced eight top 10 hits, with five topping out at No. 1, including his co-write smash with Darius Rucker on the 2017 chart-topper “For the First Time,” and GRAMMY award-winning recording engineer and producer Julian King, who’s been involved in more than 100 #1 records and has worked on albums that have sold over one hundred million copies (Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Toby Keith, Sugarland, Chris Young).

Fastened by a honky-tonk and country backbone, and augmented with colorful ragtime piano and driving lead and rhythm guitars, the anthemic “Drunk People,” which will be available on all music streaming platforms, breathes a party-friendly, feel-good vibe.

Lyrically, the easy-on-the-ears midtempo track explores the commonality that people share when they leave the stress of their work-week or life struggles behind and embrace the start of the weekend. “All my days here on earth / One thing I’ve found / Blue collar, white collar, redneck, last dollar, heartbroke, and well to do / (you) Get us all together on a Friday night / And watch us turn into…Drunk People.”

“The theme of this song resonates not only with me but I think with many people, too,” says the San Jose, California, born-and-raised Harker. “For the last four-to-five nights a week of playing bars and clubs – you’re talking around a decade of drunk people – it’s been my life at night. And the thread that connects us is that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you come from, whether you’re poor, rich, or anything in between, we all just want to let our hair down and have fun because life isn’t easy. So when Friday night rolls around, we congregate together and celebrate (because) we love drinking, we love music, and we love people. It’s as simple as that.”

Co-written by Harker, George, and renowned co-writer Chuck Jones (Patti Labelle, Ronnie Milsap, Reba McEntire, Charlie Daniels, and Peter Cetera), “Drunk People” follows on the heels of the successful lead single, “Heaven Lost an Angel,” which dropped on Nov. 8, 2019, and has accrued 85k streams (and still climbing). The jaunty follow-up, “If I Ain’t Got You,” which made its debut on January 24, 2020, was picked up by Country Music Television (CMT) as well as Spotify for its editorial “New Music Nashville” curated playlist, and has garnered 50k+ streams.