Little Big Town Brings Fresh Energy to New Album, ‘It’s a Dying Art’: ‘There Is a New Excitement’

In 2024, Little Big Town celebrated its 25th anniversary together. And when it came time to return to the studio to make It’s a Dying Art, their first new album since hitting that milestone, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook felt a renewed sense of purpose. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “We felt like we should turn the page a bit and see what the next chapter could become,” Fairchild says of recording the band’s 12th studio album, out Friday (Aug. 28) on MCA Nashville. “We don’t really have any boundaries on us at the moment from anybody saying, ‘You need to make this kind of music.’ We definitely just did whatever we wanted to do.” “There was a new excitement that we hadn’t felt in a while,” agrees Fairchild’s husband, Westbrook, during a