Cowboy Turned Country Singer To Play Late November Chattanooga Show

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) — A cowboy turned country music artist is playing a show in Chattanooga for the first time next weekend.

Chancey Williams will be opening for fellow Wyoming native Ian Munsick at The Signal on November 25.

“Ian’s crowd always shows up, and there’s a lot of good energy there, so we’re just excited to see a bunch of new faces out there in Chattanooga,” Williams said. “It’ll be fun.”

Williams says he’s known Munsick’s family long before he and Ian started playing music together in Nashville.

Williams has already opened for several other big artists, including Dierks Bentley, Toby Keith, and Alan Jackson.

He even made his Grand Ole Opry debut in April of this year.

If you’re familiar with Chancey’s music, you can expect to hear some of his newer songs, and others that have been streaming for a while.

“We try to change up the set a little bit every night, but we typically try to stick with the stuff that has streamed the best on Spotify and what not,” he said. “But you know we got a new single out called ‘I’m On The Whiskey’ that’s been streaming real well, and the crowd’s been loving it, so that’ll be in there, along with a lot of our other stuff that we’ve recorded over the years. I have six albums out, so it’s sometimes kind of hard to pick what to play each night, but try to stick to the stuff that some people know for sure.”

Williams calls “I’m On The Whiskey” an upbeat breakup song.

“We just had an idea one day, let’s write kind of a breakup song, but be kind of a fun drinking song,” Chancey said. “It’s about a guy that loses his girl to a rich guy, and she flies off with him, and he’s sulking, drinking whiskey with his buddies.”

Williams also recently released a newer version of “If I Die Before You Wake” with his full band for Veterans Day.

He says he might even play a couple of unreleased songs at the Chattanooga show.

“We’ve been playing a few of them typically,” Chancey said. “I hate to play some of them live that aren’t out yet, just because if somebody really loves it, I hate to make fans wait. They’re like, ‘When’s it coming out? I really like that song.’ I hate to tease them and play one that somebody falls in love with. I’m like, ‘Well, it’s not going to come out for three or four months,’ and they’ll be like, ‘What?’ So we’ll see. Once in a while I just get a wild hair, and we’ll put this one in tonight, and see if they like it. Kind of tests the waters.”

Whether we hear it at the show or not, Chancey says we can expect a lot of new music from him over the next few months.

“We got a whole new batch of songs recorded, we just got them back a couple weeks ago,” he said. “We got eight that we haven’t released actually, got about 10 we haven’t put out, so starting the first of the year, we’ll probably start singling some of those again. Every six or eight weeks put out a new single, and then hopefully by mid-summer so we have a full album just to drop again. It’s fun to always stay ahead of the game, keep writing and recording all the time, and putting out new stuff.”

You can get tickets to Williams’ show at The Signal here.