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Riley Green's That's Just Me Stacks 19 Tracks and a Guest List That Reads Like a Nashville Reunion

The September 18 album pairs solo-written songs with features from Brooks & Dunn, Randy Owen, and Jake Worthington — and closes an old loose end from Toby Keith.

Nineteen songs is a lot of album. It's the kind of tracklist number that used to signal a streaming-era stat play — pad the count, chase the aggregate plays — except Riley Green built his fourth record, That's Just Me, due September 18, 2026, less like a numbers game and more like a guest list he'd actually want to sit through. Brooks & Dunn show up. So does Randy Owen of Alabama. So does Jake Worthington, a name country radio hasn't fully caught up to yet. That's not filler math. That's a record with opinions about who belongs on it.

The rollout has been unusually patient for a record this stacked. Green released "My Way" as a promotional single back on April 17, 2026, five weeks before the album even had a name. When the announcement finally landed on May 28, it arrived paired with "Think As You Drunk" as the lead single — a title track detail that matters more than it looks: "Think As You Drunk" was co-written with Toby Keith, which means part of this album carries a posthumous credit. Green didn't lead with that fact in any press-release way that's been documented here, but it's baked into the song itself, and it recontextualizes the whole release as something partly built on a collaboration that can't continue.

## The single rollout was a slow build, not a teaser reel

Three promotional singles in three months is a deliberate cadence, not a scattershot one. "Go Again," featuring Hannah McFarland, came July 3. "Imagine That" followed July 31, just seven weeks ahead of the album itself. Stack that against the April "My Way" release and you get four songs revealed over five months — roughly one every five to six weeks, evenly spaced enough that it reads like a label counting down a calendar rather than reacting to a leak or a chart moment. For an album this dense with outside writers and featured vocalists, that pacing gives each collaboration room to be heard on its own before it gets buried in a 19-track sequence.

That spacing also does something else: it lets "My Way" and the album's title track stand apart as the two songs Green wrote entirely by himself. Everything else on this record involves someone else's pen or someone else's voice — Toby Keith on "Think As You Drunk," Hannah McFarland on "Go Again," and a four-way credit on "P.O.S." shared with Randy Montana, Erik Dylan and Drake White. Against that backdrop, "My Way" and "That's Just Me" function as the record's two solo anchors, the places where the album's title and its most self-directed writing meet.

## Three names do the heavy lifting on features

The featured-artist list is where the record picks its lane. Brooks & Dunn appear on "Pave All Them Red Dirt Roads," Randy Owen sings on "Lookout Mountain," and Jake Worthington is featured on "Well Well Whiskey." Two of those three are duo and solo legacy acts from country's stadium-era 1990s and 2000s; the third is a younger traditionalist who's spent years building credibility in rooms far smaller than the ones Brooks & Dunn used to headline. Putting Worthington's name next to theirs on the same tracklist isn't an accident of sequencing — it's a statement about which younger artists Green thinks earn a seat at that table.

There's a fourth, quieter storyline buried in track selection: "Ol' Stray Dog" is getting a full streaming release after living exclusively inside Apple Music's Lost & Found program. That's a specific kind of resurrection — a song that already existed for a narrow audience getting pulled into the main catalog rather than being written fresh for the occasion. It suggests the 19-track count wasn't purely new material assembled to hit a number; at least part of it was curation, deciding which older work deserved a wider shelf life.

Dann Huff produced the album alongside Green, a pairing that puts a veteran Nashville hand next to the artist's own instincts on a record with this many moving pieces — outside co-writes, guest vocalists, a rescued deep cut, and two purely solo songs all sequenced into one 19-track statement. Whether that many voices cohere into a single record or read more like a well-curated compilation is the actual listening question September 18 will answer. The tracklist alone already tells you Green wasn't trying to make that question easy.

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