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Songs We Love: Anderson East, 'King For A Day'

On a forthcoming record, the dynamic Nashville singer swathes his limestone-and-gravel vocals in horns and strings, expanding on a Southern soul sound.
Anderson East in the "King For A Day" video, a track featured on <em>Encore</em>, out Jan. 12, 2018.

can't listen to music while he's driving. "Really," he says, sitting beneath a shelf full of and albums in the tiny office he keeps in the RCA Building on Nashville's Music Row. "I'm such a fan of music, I'm so analytical — I'll have a wreck. I'd drive 40 miles in the wrong direction, trying to figure out how they did that thing." Instead,

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