Buy Dirt

Following the success of his 2018 debut album Home State and subsequent 2020 self-titled EP, Jordan Davis digs deeper into his country roots with Buy Dirt. The collection opens with “Blow Up Your TV”, a reverent interpolation of the beloved John Prine song “Spanish Pipedream” that leads seamlessly into the EP’s title track, which features Luke Bryan and grapples with leading a meaningful life in a chaotic world. “To me, the song ‘Buy Dirt’, and the whole EP, is about so much more than the actual ground that you're talking about purchasing,” Davis tells Apple Music. “It just kind of dabs more into faith, family and happiness.” Elsewhere, Davis navigates breakups (“Need to Not”) and beers with the bros (“Drink Had Me”), with the closing track “Trying” and its message of working to be a better person ending the EP on a grounded note. Below, Davis walks through each track on Buy Dirt. “Blow Up Your TV” “In my opinion, John Prine is the best songwriter to ever put pen to paper. I feel like he was put on Earth to write songs. And obviously, we lost him during the pandemic. I always have listened to John Prine songs, obviously, but I've found myself listening to him more than I ever did. ‘Spanish Pipedream’ is one of my favourite songs from him, and I don't think there was ever a point in my life where I've wanted to blow up my TV and throw away the newspaper more than the past couple years of news and whatever else is going on. It was really the catalyst to ‘Buy Dirt,’ which is why I used this to open the EP.” “Buy Dirt” (feat. Luke Bryan) “I wanted a song on there that discussed those things that are all very important to us, which was our family, our faith and our friends. And we all talked about how we can get caught up in a lot of things, whether it be in the music business or just in life in general, and we kind of lose sight of what's truly important. And I think that was one of the best things that came out of the pandemic, for me, was to be able to slow down and