| Due West | |
| Origin: | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Genre: | Country |
| Years Active: | 2004-present |
| Label: | Bigger Than Me, Black River, Sovereign 3 Records |
| Associated Acts: | Jason Deere |
| Website: | www.duewest.com |
| Current Members: | Tim Gates Brad Hull Matt Lopez |
Due West is an American country music group composed of Matt Lopez, Tim Gates, and Brad Hull.[1] Due West was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 2004, and was almost signed to a contract with RCA Records Nashville in 2006, but lost the deal due to the merger of Sony Music and BMG. By 2009, the band self-released its debut single "I Get That All the Time,"[2] which was also made into a music video, which has aired on Great American Country. In 2011 their second single, "When the Smoke Clears," was released as a music video, Roman White was the producer. Both "I Get That All the Time" and "When the Smoke Clears" made it into Great American Country's top 20. The trio also released a self-titled album on April 27, 2010. A second album, Forget the Miles, followed in 2011.
After parting ways with their label in 2013, they headed to popular crowd sourcing platform Kickstarter to raise funds to record and release a new album independently. They raised more than 150% of their goal (over $30,000). They entered the studio, this time with a new producer, Brandon Metcalf, who was previously a Seattle-based rock producer and new to Nashville, to create what they have said are the "best songs we've ever recorded."[3] Together, they crafted the Move Like That EP, which is their highest-charting album to date. The title track was co-penned by hit songwriter Jimmy Robbins. The lead off single, "Slide On Over", was written by Erin Enderlin, Dylan Scott and Will Bowen.
Due West entered the studio with Metcalf again in August 2013 to record a Christmas album, released on November 26, 2013.[4]
After a few year pause, Matt, Tim and Brad reunited in 2019 to play some shows. Then a year later, they reconnected with their long-time buddy, songwriting icon Dean Dillon. Dean encouraged them to finish writing and recording an album that they had started together in 2016 with Dillon at the producing helm. They went to Key West in early 2022 and wrote 7 songs in three days and then went into Ocean Way studios to record the songs in June of the same year. After a year of putting finishing touches on those songs and the ones they had started in 2016, they were finally ready to press and release the album entitled UNBROKEN, which was released February 23, 2024 on Dillon's start-up label Unwound Records, whose namesake pays homage a song he wrote which would become George Strait's first single on MCA Records in the early 1980s.
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Heat | |||
| Due West |
| — | — | |
| Forget the Miles |
| — | — | |
| Our Time [5] |
| — | — | |
| Move Like That |
| 38 | 13 | |
| I Hear Christmas |
| — | — | |
| UNBROKEN |
| _ | _ | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | ||||
| 2009 | "I Get That All the Time" | — | Due West | |
| 2010 | "The Bible and the Belt" | — | ||
| 2011 | "When the Smoke Clears" | — | Forget the Miles | |
| 2012 | "Things You Can't Do in a Car" | 47 | Our Time | |
| 2013 | "Slide On Over" | — | Move Like That | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
| Year | Video | Director | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "I Get That All the Time" | Glenn Sweitzer | |
| 2011 | "When the Smoke Clears" | Roman White | |
| 2012 | "Things You Can't Do in a Car" | Robert Chavers |