Dan + Shay on Rebounding From a Near-Breakup, Joining ‘The Voice’ as Coaches, and Coming Up WIth Three Different Kinds of Wedding Songs
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For a while there, unbeknown to all but a few, there was a danger that hit country-pop duo Dan + Shay might go separate ways.
But replacing the “+” in their moniker for a minus sign iwouldn’t have had much of a ring to it for either of them, so it’s to everyone’s benefit that they got to the root of what threatened to put a damper on their personal chemistry and found their duo mojo again in approaching the making of “Bigger Houses,” their fifth full-length album for Warner Nashville.
In — hurrah — joint conversation with Variety just before the new album came out, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney got candid about the time they spent feeling estranged from another before getting back to basics just as conversationalists, then as mutually supportive songwriting collaborators.
Led by the single “Save Me the Trouble,” the new album finds them fully reunited with longtime producer Scott Hendricks, who took on the entire collection with Smyers as co-producer.
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