Lamont Landers For the Record: New Single Traces Back to a Questlove Repost

There is a quiet confidence running through Lamont Landers For the Record, the new single from one of soul and southern rock’s more quietly compelling emerging voices. Released via Lucille Records, Dave Cobb’s imprint under MCA, the track arrives with a music video and a co-writing credit that stretches across seven names: Landers, Cobb, Tom Gimbel, Patrick Gray, Jaraven Hill, Alexander Powell, and LaJuan Winfield. Lyrically, it leans into first-class flights, fast cars and the pleasure of finishing first, a playful assertion of arrival from someone whose actual arrival had a rather more unlikely catalyst.

According to MCA, the chain of events that led to Landers signing with Cobb began when Questlove reposted his rendition of ‘Rubber Band Man,’ a moment that caught the ear of the GRAMMY Award-winning producer. Cobb then extended a direct invitation to Landers to record at his Savannah, Georgia studio, and from that session came the relationship that would bring Landers into the Lucille fold. It is the kind of origin story that sounds apocryphal, yet it speaks to the way certain voices, once heard, are not easily set aside.

From the Apollo to the Grand Ole Opry

The new single follows ‘Lonely Girl,’ a song written by Chris Stapleton and Jesse Frasure that was built squarely around what the report describes as Landers’ ‘signature powerhouse vocal.’ He recently performed it and reflected on his year with The Bobby Bones Show. That vocal has now carried him to stages that very few artists ever share. Landers made his AMERICANAFest debut in Nashville, performing at City Winery, the Bluebird Cafe and the Grand Ole Opry. He has also performed at Showtime at the Apollo, placing him in company that includes James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mavis Staples, Blind Boys of Alabama, Elvis Costello and Darius Rucker, artists who have stood on both those stages.

It is worth pausing on that lineage. The Apollo and the Grand Ole Opry represent two traditions that have historically operated in parallel rather than in conversation. Artists who have navigated both tend to carry something that resists easy genre categorisation, and the material on Landers’ debut suggests he belongs in that company on musical terms, not merely biographical ones.

Lamont Landers For the Record Follows a Debut Built Around Family

Last year, Landers released Introducing… Lamont Landers, a seven-track project produced by Cobb. Its songs range across ‘America,’ ‘Golden Skies,’ ‘Devil Is Alive And Well,’ ‘How Long (Until The Rain Is Gone),’ ‘Love’s Got The Best Of Us,’ and ‘Lotta Love,’ which soundtracked the Season 10 finale of Netflix’s Love Is Blind. The album closes on ‘I Have Always Loved You,’ a song addressed to his daughter. ‘It’s overwhelming, the depth of feeling you have for your child,’ Landers has said. ‘Being a dad is the greatest thing in the world, and this song is my way of saying that to her.’ It is a disarmingly direct statement from an artist whose public persona has otherwise leaned into confidence and scale, and it gives the debut an emotional centre that the more stylistically polished ‘For the Record’ does not attempt to replicate.

Fresh off dates with Alabama Shakes, Landers is heading into a headline run across the Southeast and Midwest. The tour opens on 24 September at The Burl in Lexington, Kentucky and wraps on 14 November at C-Boy’s Heart & Soul in Austin, Texas, a stretch of dates that will give regional audiences their clearest look yet at what this catalogue sounds like in a room built for it.