Sometimes you just gotta get away, even if you’ve won a Grammy. Jon Randall returns to the other side of the recording booth for the first time in 15 years with his song “Moving On,” a song that’s as much about wanderlust as it is about self-exile — something that feels all too relevant in 2021. The lilting guitars will land in your ears and stay there for a good long time after the last chord has faded out. Even if you want to get away from it all, the guitars suggest, you’ll still be rooted in place.
Randall is also joined by guest background vocalist Emerson Heart of the popular band, Tonic. The song became Randall’s way of processing all of the noise in the world and the feeling of wanting to run away from it all. “It’s an enneagram 9 thing” says Randall “I spend so much of my time and energy banking everyone else’s expectations, egos, opinions, and it all fucks with my inner peace.”
Since Randall’s last release as an artist, he has earned an extensive list of songwriting cuts including Miranda Lambert’s “Tin Man” (written with Lambert and Jack Ingram) which won the 2018 ACM Song Of The Year Award, as well as Emmylou Harris, Maren Morris, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, Scotty McCreery, and Guy Clark. As an acclaimed producer, he has also produced for Dierks Bentley, Jack Ingram, Dwight Yoakam, Pat Green, and most recently Parker McCollum’s platinum-selling single “Pretty Heart”.