Clever Turns the Page with Daring Full-Length Country Album 'Coyote'
- All Country News
- Oct 3
- 2 min read
Clever has never been one to color inside the lines. The Alabama native built a reputation as a truth-telling troubadour who slips effortlessly between genres, bending them until they fit his story. But with the release of his full-length country debut Coyote, a sprawling 21-track odyssey, Clever proves he isn’t just chasing trends. He’s writing his own.
More than just an album, Coyote feels like a manifesto. Equal parts country hymn and haunted confession, it’s Clever at his rawest: bruised, bold, and unafraid to bare every scar. He describes the project as “voice in the darkness, a hymnal for the heartbroken. To me, this album is proof that you can bleed, burn, and bounce back."
That dream didn’t come easy. Known first for his hip-hop lyricism and alternative edge, Clever’s pivot into country could have felt like reinvention. Instead, it reads like revelation. He wrote or co-wrote every track on Coyote, turning each song into a personal imprint, an entry in a diary set to melody.
Highlights abound across the 21-song landscape. “Buy One Get One,” co-written with Zakkary Garner, Lucas Payne, and Joseph Petta, threads humor and heartbreak in equal measure. “Ain’t The Only Thing,” written alongside Hallie Grace Hertrick, Chase McDaniel, and Clara Park, simmers with grit and southern soul. And “Reminds Me of You” captures Clever at his most vulnerable, a song that aches long after its final note.
What makes Coyote stand apart is its refusal to choose one lane. Country lives at its core, but hip-hop cadences, alternative shadows, and pop accessibility circle around it like coyotes under a desert moon. The result is an album that feels fearless a soundscape that mirrors the artist himself.
With Coyote, Clever isn’t asking for permission to belong in country music. He’s demanding recognition, not just as a crossover, but as a creator unafraid to burn down fences in search of truth. For fans, the album is a ride in that Chevelle he imagines headlights on the horizon, smoke curling into the night, the kind of road trip that leaves you different than when you started.
And for Clever? It’s the start of a new chapter, one that feels destined to be anything but ordinary.
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