Jimmie Allen’s new album, Tulip Drive, comes out on Friday, and fans got a sweet surprise at the beginning of one song, “You Won’t Be Alone“: The singer’s son, Aadyn, is featured. The track opens with a recording of the now-eight-year-old saying, “Hi daddy, I love you!” when he was about four and a half.
Jimmie’s not the only country star who’s got a song spotlighting his kid. Maren Morris featured her son Hayes saying “mama” during “Hummingbird,” a track off her new album Humble Quest. Carrie Underwood also duetted with her son Isaiah for a performance of “The Little Drummer Boy,” off her 2020 Christmas project, My Gift.
All those kids were under 10 when they lent their voices to country songs, but there are plenty of examples of artists collaborating with their older children, too. Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Gary LeVox, Willie Nelson and Clint Black have all shared the stage or put out songs with their talented children.
Back in 1975, Conway Twitty even charted a hit with help from his then-teenaged daughter Joni Lee: Their “Don’t Cry, Joni” peaked inside the top twenty on the U.S. Country chart, making it just one of two non-Loretta Lynn duets that brought Conway chart success.
Of course, you can’t talk about parent-child duets without mentioning The Judds, the legendary mother-daughter group consisting of Naomi and Wynonna Judd. The Country Music Hall of Famers had 14 number-one hits over the course of their career.
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