ALBUM PREMIERE: Davidson Brothers - All You Need Is Music

ListenStalwart country/bluegrass outfit the Davidson Brothers are back with their eighth studio full-length, All You Need Is Music, a 13-track foot-stompin', finger-blitzin', down-home collection of twangy croons, phenomenal musicianship and pretense-free good times, and theMusic.com.au is stoked to be premiering the album today.

Set for independent release this Friday, 7 April, All You Need Is Music is the fifth album the Victorian musos have recorded in country music's defacto HQ of Tennessee, the most recent being 2011's Here To Stay, which they recorded in Nashville; however, that's not their latest work: they released Wanderlust, recorded in Melbourne, in 2014, before returning to Nashville to lay down the new goods for album #8.

Regardless of where they ultimately lay their tracks down, though, the Davidson Brothers — individually, Hamish and Lachlan — are reliable and respected songwriters and performers. They have shared the stage with, and/or performed as session musicians for, an exhaustive list of peers and contemporaries over the years, from Tommy Emmanuel, Kasey Chambers and Lee Kernaghan to Jimmy Barnes, Beccy Cole, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kevin Bloody Wilson and more. And that experience, they say, has shaped this album as much as anything they've done in their careers.

"I was probably a big part of encouraging my brother to do an album that’s not straight bluegrass," Hamish said in a statement. "Lachie started touring with Lee Kernaghan in 2003 — I got the call, but I just got into uni so I handballed the gig to Lachie, and held the phone up when he played the fiddle and did his audition over the phone.

"But he ended up touring with Lee for two years, and I did a lot of session work with lots of other country singers, and I think we just sorta got used to being the bluegrass sound in a country band."

However, Lachlan said, "I didn't wanna do a full record just country, 'cause I feel like we're getting better at bluegrass after touring so hard and doin' it live. So we decided to do an A- and a B-side concept."

In addition, they've graced the stage at Meredith, made a place for themselves in the Tamworth Hall of Fame and generated impressive social-media traffic for the clip for album track Take A Little Drive, racking up over 15,000 views since its release in late March.

Pre-orders for All You Need Is Music are available now.

If you like what you hear, the boys will be launching the album with a special show in Melbourne on Friday 28 April at Carlton's Longhorn Saloon. They'll be performing with a full band behind them along with "some special surprises" and yet-to-be-revealed supports.

See theGuide for more information.