Donovan Woods has released the lyric video for his new single Clean Slate.
The track was written by Woods with Jeremy Spillman and Warner Nashville country artist Tucker Beathard, with production from Todd Clark (Noah Kahan, Dua Lipa). Watch the video:
āThis is a love song about falling in love and how it makes you feel like youāre a new person,ā says Woods. āBut slowly you realise youāre still the same person with all the hang-ups youāve always had, and itās a drag. It feels like the narrator will hear this song five years from now and feel embarrassed. What I love about it is that it feels like a very pure expression by someone with the best intentions.ā
With his upcoming releases, Woods will support black and indigenous business communities, struggling artists and independent record stores that have been affected by the pandemic. In an Instagram post he shared:
āSoon Iāll be releasing new music, and Iāll promote it on my social media platforms, but Iām not interested in getting back to business as usual. This release will feel different, purposefully. So many artists are out of work, or in precarious situations. Weāll be diverting funds that would normally go to advertising and hiring independent creators.
Weāll be using promo budgets to support Black-owned and indigenous-owned businesses, and partnering with independent record stores to make ordering vinyl easier and more meaningful.
This new record is about the hopelessness of writing relationship songs when it feels like itās the end of the world. Hopefully itās just the end of the unjust world weāve known. Reach out with any ideas you might have and Iāll see you soonā
Woods has over 265 million streams to date and 1.5 million monthly listeners. He won a JUNO Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year for his most recent album Both Ways, and has written for Tim McGraw (Portland Maine), Charles Kelley (Leaving Nashville) and Billy Currington (Sweet Love).