Hours after releasing his new country album, F-1 Trillion, Post Malone is already back with the expanded Long Bed edition.
The new version of the album features nine new songs, all of which are solo endeavors. This practically makes Long Bed a separate album, as F-1 Trillion’s 18 tracks are almost entirely duets with just three solo joints (“What Don’t Belong to Me,” “Right About You,” and “Yours.”)
The Long Bed track list includes songs with tantalizing titles like “Dead at the Honky Tonk,” “Ain’t How it Ends,” “Hey Mercedes,” “Who Needs You,” and “Go to Hell.”
F-1 Trillion finds Post Malone collaborating with an array of country luminaries, including Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll, Sierra Ferrell, and Hardy. One standout track is “California Sober” with Chris Stapleton, a twangy stomper about an irresistible but no-good hitchhiker: “She drank up all my whiskey, blew down all my smoke,” Stapleton and Posty sing. “I became the punchline of some cosmic joke.”
Another highlight is “Have the Heart,” a lovelorn honky tonk anthem featuring the one and only Dolly Parton. “Baby, I don’t have the heart to break yours,” the pair harmonize on the hook, “Yeah, and trouble rode in on the back of a pale white horse/You’re so sweet, and tryna leave is like/Slamming a revolving door/Baby, I don’t have the heart to break yours.”
Post Malone been laying the groundwork for his country turn basically his entire career, with this year serving as a kind of inevitable (and welcome) culmination. In the lead-up to today’s release of F-1 Trillion, he dropped his hit single with Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Help,” followed by his tracks with Shelton (“Pour Me a Drink”) and Luke Combs (“Guy for That”).
