By Kelsey Butler
e’s played every hole-in-the-wall
bar in Alabama, and now our fa-
vorite hometown country singer is
touring the Southeast.
Riley Green just released his latest EP
including hits like “Bury Me In Dixie” and
“Man Like Me”. “I was just really, really happy
with how it all came out,” Green says of his EP
titled Outlaws Like Us.
music. He had the opportunity to work with
some big names in the music industry on
Outlaws Like Us. “I got with some really good
guys in Nashville and producers.” Tyler Reeve,
who helped write “In Case You Didn’t Know”
for Brett Young, co-wrote “Man Like Me” and
“How You Left Me” with Green.
The production quality of Green’s new EP is,
in his words, “night and day” from the music
he’s released in the past. “Everything I’ve put
I caught up with Green while he was in
out prior to this is just me scraping up a few
Jacksonville, playing a little solo b-ball at the
bucks and going to so-and-so’s studio that
city court before taking the stage at the Spirit
he has in his basement and recording.”
on Mountain Street event on August 24.
Green credits much of his success in the
These days, Green spends half of each month
past year to his friends and fans who share,
in Nashville, writing and working on new
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