The Boot Features Exclusive First Listen
Nashville, Tenn. (December 19, 2022) — Country traditionalist Donice Morace has released his heartbreaking new single, “Wait Til I’m Gone” on Bad Jeu Jeu Records/CDX Records. The single is available at all major digital retailers at this link. Earlier this week, The Boot featured the exclusive first listen of the song.
“‘Wait Til I’m Gone’ is the final piece of the trilogy of songs we released this year,” states Morace. “It’s about losing something you really care about, trying to keep your composure, and not being very successful at it. It’s real life.”
Written by Mark Nesler, Tony Martin, and Tom Shapiro, “Wait Til I’m Gone” hearkens back to a time when great storytelling ruled the day in country music. As the tale of lost love unfolds, Morace’s signature vocal style wraps around each lyric, wrenching every last ounce of hurt and pain out of them.
“Can you wait til’ I’m gone
Just one minute more
Let me grab my keys
Get at least
One foot out that door
Before you start
To burn
My memory down
Let me get my heart
In the car
And get on out of town
It’s over and I know you’re moving on
But can you wait til’ I’m gone.”
Morace is wasting no time in continuing to stake his claim as the “One to Watch” in the traditional country movement that he is helping to spearhead, and his recent win for “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the Texas Country Music Awards was sweet validation for his hard work.
In 2022, he enjoyed terrific success with “One Drink In” at mainstream country and Texas radio and recently released the follow-up “Goin’ Goin’.”
A well-established force in his home state of Texas, Morace continues to bring new fans into the fold from across America with his contemporary take on traditional country music.
ABOUT DONICE MORACE:
You can’t fake authentic. You know it when you see it – and you know it when you hear it.
Authentic is the best word that can be used to describe Donice Morace. From his chiseled good looks and easy-going personality that exude the confidence of a man who knows exactly who he is, to his music which catches your ear and takes you back to another era when country music was defined by vocal stylists who were immediately identifiable, Morace is truly authentic.
Morace began his journey in music at the tender age of six when his father bought him his first guitar. By the time he was a junior in high school he was singing in choir, and after seeing George Strait in concert while in college at Texas A&M, it became clear to him that music would be his life’s calling. The Vidor, Texas native found inspiration from the music of Keith Whitley, George Jones, and Conway Twitty. And while those country traditionalists helped to shape his own sound, it was two local country music heroes, Tracy Byrd, and Mark Chesnutt, who gave Morace a good blueprint when it came time to take his career to the professional level and launch his own band. “I learned so much from watching how they had handled their careers. It was like Honky Tonk 101. I wanted to be like them, but also bring my own fresh high energy approach to it.”
After carving his spot in the Beaumont scene, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he sang five nights a week at Cowboy’s Dance Hall. This opportunity allowed him to open for national acts such as Lonestar and Kenny Chesney, along with one of his heroes, Merle Haggard. Donice brought his tried, true, and real brand of country music back to Texas five years later, making boots scoot across dance halls across the state while opening for the likes of Kevin Fowler, Aaron Watson, and Cody Johnson.
Morace continued to grow his stock with the release of his debut self-titled EP in 2017, which featured the top 25 single, “Good Hurt Comin’ On,” and “WD-40 and Duct Tape,” which was accompanied by a music video, and peaked at number 15 on the Texas Regional Radio Report. He doubled down with the release of his debut album ‘Long Live the Cowboy’ in 2019, unashamedly putting the cowboy back in country music.
Fast forward to today, and Donice Morace continues to expand on the solid foundation that he has built so far and is excited to say, “I am looking forward to this new phase of my career and introducing our brand of country music to you.”
