Vincent Mason Builds Momentum for Debut Album, Teases Collaboration with Tourmate Gavin Adcock

Vincent Mason hints at plans to drop his first full-length album in 2025. 

The 23-year-old began his songwriting journey while attending college at Ole Miss and it wasn’t long before those dorm room writes evolved into a full-blown career as a country music artist. “Hell Is A Dance Floor” was the breakout hit that drew fans in, but it was his debut EP, Can’t Just Be Me, that made them want to stick around and see what else the rising singer-songwriter is capable of. Since then, he has continued to captivate audiences with emotion-fueled tunes while steadily building momentum for a larger project he’s been working on behind the scenes. 

Showcasing A New Side To Heartbreak With ‘Train Of Thought’

Two songs that have dropped since the EP are “Heart Like This” and “Train of Thought,” both of which further prove Mason’s knack for heartbreak anthems. Penned by Vincent Mason with Jared Keim, Ryan Beaver, and Chase McDaniel, “Train of Thought” offers a more upbeat sound than his fans are used to and also takes a different perspective on the typical post-breakup narrative.  

“We were trying to figure out how to write it. I thought it was a cool thing, and I kind of started singing that ‘hop back on that train of thought,’ that post-chorus, and everyone thought that was kind of something,” Mason told us prior to his set at Elevation Beaver Creek 2024. “We ended up writing it kind of about starting to be over a relationship, but also at the same time, like, ‘hey, you ever want to try again, I’ll be here.’ It’s not like a heartbroken song. It’s just kind of like you’re starting to make your peace with everything. So it’s a cool spin on something. I like to write those kinds of songs. I think you can get a little dramatic sometimes with the heartbreak, but that one kind of seems a little bit more level, so I like it.”

His passion lies within that slower, acoustic sound that typically beams throughout his music, however, this time listeners get to experience a more upbeat and vibrant set of rhythms that still allows him to wear his heart on his sleeve and dominate speakers with his rich, Georgia-bred vocals. 

“It’s a little bigger, a little bit more electric, a little bigger drums, maybe a little quicker, but I like that acoustic slow sound so much. That one really feels like it’s quick, but it still feels like the rest of the stuff at heart. So I was really excited how that turned out,” he said of the final product.

Slowly Building Out Full-Length Project

It’s only been a few weeks since Vincent Mason made his Grand Ole Opry debut, where he got to showcase a few of his biggest hits, and his momentum is at an all-time high as he prepares to enter the next chapter of his career with his first studio album. 

“We always kind of steady drop singles and tease stuff and see what works. We can move really quickly when something starts to go and I like that because you don’t necessarily know what’s going to come out. But we’re also kind of grouping stuff together and slating stuff for a record, which if it was up to me, it’d be next year. So I think everyone is saying next year,” he said hopefully. 

Until the album is officially announced, he promised to continue teasing snippets into the songs he’s working on as they become available in order to gauge which tracks fans want to see on the project. 

“It takes a lot of time and effort to build those out,” he added while discussing the potential timeline of the release. 

Vincent Mason Reflects On Tour With Gavin Adcock

Although we don’t have many details regarding the album just yet, Mason did share that one of his next releases will include a song he wrote with his current tourmate, Gavin Adcock. Mason has been serving as support on Adcock’s Actin’ Up Again tour for several weeks now, and it seems the pair of artists have already formed a strong bond. 

“It’s been awesome. Those shows, the energy is just like, it’s one of one. Until you see a full live set, you can see the clips or whatever, you can see all that and know it’s kind of rowdy, but until you get out there, the energy really is awesome.”

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He went on to praise Gavin’s ability to bring everything he has to the stage and then continue to carry himself as someone who is “really respectful, humble” and “as nice as they come” off stage.   

“We’ve gotten to be pretty good friends and we get to hang out. We got a song coming pretty soon. We wrote one together with some of the guys that we write songs with and we did that back in Nashville. It was Jack Rauton who writes a lot of Gavin’s songs and Jack Hummel and Chase McDaniel again, who I write with a ton. So we kind of like had a little crossover there with the people we write with, and we came out with a good one.”

In addition to serving as direct support on Gavin Adcock’s entire fall leg of his Actin’ Up Again Tour, with dates running through December, Vincent Mason is also on the lineup for Stagecoach 2025.