[Cover photo credit to Nathan Chapman]

David Malloy is a Nashville songwriter and Producer of dozens of number one songs that he’s either written and/or Produced throughout his career. He was encouraged by friends to write a book about his life, but instead he decided to write an album, titled Mirror, which arrives March 13, 2024. The album’s first single and official music video “I Play Gimme Shelter” is out now alongside an official video.

“I Play Gimme Shelter,” was written by Malloy and co-Produced with Nashville-based musician and Producer Paul Childers. It also features background vocalist Jackie Wilson.

Malloy says the decision to release “I Play Gimme Shelter” as the first single from Mirror was because of “all the chaos and tension now surrounding us in this world. This song had to be the first single.”

Malloy says that The Rolling Stones’ song “Gimme Shelter” inspired him, since Mick Jagger speaks about in a 1995 Rolling Stone Magazine interview (seen here) as being “kind of an end-of-the world song, really. It’s apocalypse; the whole record’s like that.”

Malloy states that it…

…reflects our current times unfortunately. I love everything about the Stones’ song ‘Gimme Shelter.’ It sucks you in from the get-go. Some songs you can’t play loud enough, and ‘Gimme Shelter’ and ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ are those songs for me. I wanted to write about how much I love them by creating my own song, ‘I Play Gimme Shelter.’” Of course, my greatest joy would be for the Stones to hear this song. Long live rock and roll!