Red Tail Lights
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| "Red Tail Lights" | ||||
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| Single by Hinder | ||||
| from the album All American Nightmare | ||||
| Released | January 29, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2010[1] | |||
| Studio | Back-Longue Productions | |||
| Length | 3:48 | |||
| Label | Universal Republic[2] | |||
| Songwriters | Austin John Winkler, Cody Hanson, Jeffrey Steele[3] | |||
| Producer | Kevin Churko | |||
| Hinder singles chronology | ||||
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"Red Tail Lights" is a single by the American rock band Hinder from their third studio album All American Nightmare.[4] It was released on January 29, 2012, as the fourth and final single from the album via Universal Republic Records.[5][6][7]
The song originated during the extensive touring period in support of their previous album Take It to the Limit, prompting the band to set up a mobile recording studio in the back of their tour bus which was where the instrumentals for the track was first recorded.[8][9] Throughout the touring cycle lead singer Austin John Winkler and drummer Cody Hanson revealed the two of them had written 66-75 songs for their upcoming third album, and cut the list down to the eleven or twelve songs for the record, with Red Tail Lights being one of those that made the final cut.[10][11][12]
Red Tail Lights like much of All American Nightmare was produced and engineered at two separate studios, in a 2011 interview the band revealed that Winkler recorded his vocals for the song at his personal in Las Vegas while the rest of the work was produced at Hanson's studio "Back-Longue Productions" in Oklahoma that he co-owns with future lead singer Marshal Dutton, who also assisted in the production of Red Tail Lights by recording the song's first demo that featured him singing the lead vocals for Winkler.[13][14][15]
The band stated they implemented a new strategy to the recording process, recruiting Kevin Churko and Bob Ludwig to collaborate with the band for producing, engineering, and mixing, while also working with country music singer-songwriter Jeffrey Steele to shift the track in a more contemporary sound in order to evolve from the band's typical hard rock sound.[16][17]