This Week’s Guest Host: Thomas Rhett

Thomas Rhett is this week’s guest host on Backstage Country (March 11-15). The country hitmaker joins Kelly Ford in the studio all week to discuss new music, working with Morgan Wallen, writing with his dad, plus, we even get some family updates.

Rhett has been a force to be reckoned with since he came onto the country scene. At the end of last year, Rhett released his 20 Number Ones collection, in honor of earning 20 No. 1 songs in just 10 years.

“To have 20 No. Ones is beyond wild – honestly more than I ever could have imagined,” reflected Thomas Rhett in a press statement. “I’m grateful to have hit this milestone, but mostly it’s just exciting to look back at this journey so far and see how these songs represent the different chapters of my life — and hopefully the Home Team feels the same way."

The collection features "It Goes Like This," "Get Me Some Of That," "Make Me Wanna," "Crash And Burn," "Die A Happy Man," "T-Shirt," "Star Of The Show," "Unforgettable," and more. While it's impossible to pick our favorite TR track, each one seems to only get better every time we listen to it.

While he hasn't announced a date yet for the release of new music, Rhett admits to Ford that the next project is his wife's favorite. To celebrate his 20 No. 1 hits, he also dropped his most recent collaboration, "Mamaw's House," with Wallen, which has since gone to No. 1.

Rhett has released six studio albums to date, including It Goes Like This (2013), Tangled Up (2015), Life Changes (2017), Center Point Road (2019), Country Again: Side A (2021), and Where We Started (2022).

Check back all week for more from Thomas Rhett on Backstage Country. For more information, visit thomasrhett.com and follow Thomas Rhett on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok to see more.

Thomas Rhett celebrates his 33rd birthday today (3/30) and is also celebrating the first anniversary of his Where We Started album on Saturday (4/1). Thomas reflects on where he and his wife Lauren started over a decade ago.

Rhett told us, "Just kinda looking back at the last decade of our lives … Shoot, 2012, when I was playing 600 shows a year, and Lauren was with me on the tour bus with nine other dudes, it felt like we were never going to get out of that. And my wife, being like, 'Man, how many times have we been to Wisconsin this year?'"

He continued, "I wake up now, and I'm like, we have four children; so much has changed in my career from just success to bigger rooms to getting to do neat collaborations with people. And sometimes you wake up, and you're like, man, today is tough. And you look back at your past, and you're like, yeah, but think about where we were. And I think whether you do music, or whatever you do, I think anyone can look back at their past, and be like man, looking at where we are now, compared to where we were, the future looks pretty bright."