Parker McCollum has taken to Instagram to confirm he's recording a brand new acoustic album, a project the Texas native first discussed during a 2024 interview with Holler.

Alongside a photo of his view from the plane window as he flies to California, McCollum has revealed his plans regarding new music, “LA bound. 4 days recording an acoustic album for you guys. No idea where this is about to go. We will find the edge”.

It's true that fans have been clamouring for the ‘I Ain't Going Nowhere’ hitmaker to release a rawer, more stripped-back project in the mould of his earlier releases for years.

But it's also true that he at least partially satisfied fans’ appetite for this with his 2025 self-titled album, which saw McCollum returning to the DIY feel of his debut, The Limestone Kid.

Even so, as a longstanding fan of McCollum, it's safe to say an acoustic project would still be welcomed with open arms as another sign that he has returned to his roots, following the sleeker, more polished sound of Gold Chain Cowboy and Never Enough.

It seems McCollum first started toying with the idea to record a fully acoustic record back in 2024, when he expressed his desire to take a few days out to cut this kind of project during a discussion with Holler a few months after the arrival of Never Enough.

In that interview, McCollum outlined how, throughout all of his album cycles, he generally prefers a more acoustic, pared-down composition style, “The records I put out when I was independent were rawer and not as pretty-sounding, and I like that. But at the same time, I wanted the big clean record. That's what my heroes have, what George Strait and John Mayer have. Even so, some days, I want to give a song more of that acoustic, stripped-back feel. Other days, I want every instrument and every bit of production I can get on it. So I try to walk that line”.

He goes on to explain how, once he had released Parker McCollum, he would love to spend a few days recording an entirely acoustic project, “I'm going to finish this next record, and once it's done, I think I'm gonna go sit in the studio for three nights in a row, just me and my guitar, hit record, and just play the entire album acoustically. Then, whichever night it sounds the best, I'll put that out as its own project. So you'll have the full-band version, all produced and pretty, and then you'll have the version that everybody seems to always want, with nothing done to it”.

Thankfully, it looks like McCollum is finally getting his wish of recording an acoustic album. It remains to be seen whether it will consist of brand new music, or whether this will feature acoustic versions of some of his biggest hits, or perhaps even acoustic renditions of every song from Parker McCollum. We suspect it will likely be new music, though, given how his self-titled project is already relatively stripped-back - and if this is the case, then the excitement will be through the roof.