Fritz, Jonny - Debbie Downers (Indie Exclusive, Gold Nugget Vinyl) (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 24-October-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

For years, Jonny Fritz traveled the world as a country music eccentric, maintaining the nonstop schedule of a road warrior whose giant-sized personality didn’t overshadow, but rather magnified his talent at songwriting. Then, one day, he stopped. Fed up with the economic burdens of the music industry, he took a long break from the recording studio and the road. Debbie Downers — not just a single album, but a collection of four inter-linked records, each one featuring a different producer and a unique interpretation of the same album — marks his charismatic return. First up a the country record, the most conventional considering Jonny’s catalog, that Fritz recorded in Nashville with a group of Music City sidemen.

Self-funded and independently conceived, Debbie Downers is a project fueled not by the music industry, but by a genuine love of music itself. Whether he's skewering his MAGA relatives ("Debbie Downers"), singing about the challenges of working at Walgreens with your roommate ("The Boss"), or sketching the portrait of a divorced father "trying hard to ignore the looks from the earth-tone moms" at the neighborhood playground, Fritz turns the everyday into the anthemic, creating a colorful soundtrack for blue-collar life. He's rested and rebalanced, back in the saddle after a long, voluntary break from the road. This time around, though, he'll be following his own path, not getting derailed by false hopes of pleasing the masses through convention, but rather aiming to please himself and his community of respected musicians.

A1. Debbie Downers A2. Polished Turd A3. Hot Chicken Condos A4. Run A5. Tea Man B1. Bikers B2. Have You Seen Her B3. The Boss B4. Slow Down