"More Than My Hometown" is a song co-written and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

singer

Morgan Wallen Morgan Cole Wallen (born May 13, 1993) is an American country singer and songwriter. He competed in the sixth season of ''The Voice'', originally as a member of Usher's team, but later as a member of Adam Levine's team. After being eliminated ...

. It was released on May 27, 2020 as the lead-off single from his second studio album '' Dangerous: The Double Album''.

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Wallen co-wrote "More Than My Hometown" with

Michael Hardy Michael Wilson Hardy (born September 13, 1990), known professionally as Hardy (stylized in all caps), is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has written songs for Florida Georgia Line, Chris Lane, Blake Shelton, Dallas Smith, Thom ...

Ernest Keith Smith Ernest Keith Smith, known mononymously as Ernest (stylized in ERNEST), is an American country music singer. After writing songs for Morgan Wallen, Jake Owen, Florida Georgia Line, Thomas Rhett and Chris Lane, he signed a recording contract wit ...

, and

Ryan Vojtesak Ryan Vojtesak, also known as Charlie Handsome, is a multi-platinum selling record producer and songwriter born in Atlanta, Georgia. Handsome has worked with artists such as Post Malone, Khalid, Drake, Kanye West, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, Youn ...

, and it was produced by

Joey Moi Joey Moi is a Canadian record producer, audio engineer, mixer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his work with the rock groups Nickelback and My Darkest Days, and country music acts Chris Lane, Dallas Smith, Florida Georgia Line, Jake Ow ...

. Lyrically, the song talks about small town love and finds the narrator drawing the line at moving away from his hometown to follow his girlfriend's big city dreams ("This might be the last time I get to lay you down, 'cause I can't love you more than my hometown").

Music video

The music video was directed by Justin Clough and premiered on August 24, 2020. The video was filmed in Ashland City, Tennessee. Starring in the video is Morgan Wallen and a female from the bachelor .

Cover photo

The photograph used as the cover image for the single was taken looking southbound on Tennessee Highway 70 just north of

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. One of the towns listed on the highway sign in the photo,

Sneedville Sneedville is the only city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Tennessee, Hancock County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,282 per the 2020 census. History Settlement began in the 1790s, following the American Revolutionary Wa ...

, is the actual native hometown of Morgan Wallen. Morgan_Wallen#Early life, family and education

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