Waylon Hanel has a new music video out for “Tow Truck Driver,” and it lands exactly the way the song was always meant to. The 24-year-old Millington, Michigan native brings his lighthearted, good-ole-boy energy to the Bernie Nelson and Andrew Brockdorf-written track, which peaked at number nine on CDX’s True Indie Chart in 2025. Directed and produced by Karl Weidmann, the video is out now on Hanel’s YouTube channel, with network TV airings beginning Monday, March 2 at 8:34 a.m. EST and 9:12 p.m. EST on American Country Network, with additional support from The Heartland Network and The JMA TV Network.
“The real-life story told in ‘Tow Truck Driver’ shows that you can always find humor in some of life’s crazy things that happen to us all,” Hanel says. “On top of that, it also happens to be one of my favorite songs that I have ever recorded.” The track appears on his third studio album ‘When Waylon Came To Nashville,’ out now via CDX Records, a record that Saving Country Music named to its 2025 Essential Albums List. That kind of recognition from one of the genre’s most discerning outlets says everything about where Hanel sits right now.
‘When Waylon Came To Nashville’ is a full-commitment traditional country record, built on steel guitar, honest storytelling and a vocal twang that sounds like it was road-tested long before Hanel ever set foot in a studio. Recorded almost entirely at Dark Horse Recording Studio with producer Dave Hagen (Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Keb’ Mo’), the album closes with “My Name,” produced by Josh Emmons at Omni Sound Studio in Nashville. “This album has everything a country record should have,” Hanel says. “Three chords and the truth, a steel guitar and a great story.”
The full track listing for ‘When Waylon Came To Nashville’ is as follows.
- “Talk About Crazy” (Bill Don Burns, Karen Sue Brooks)
- “Keith Whitley Blue” (Bill Don Burns)
- “When Waylon Came To Nashville” (Bill Don Burns)
- “Red Bricks” (Dave Gibson, Peter Sallis, Brian White)
- “Thinkin’ About Drinkin'” (Waylon Hanel)
- “Greyhound” (Bernie Nelson, Tommy Connors, Mark McGuinn)
- “Tow Truck Driver” (Bernie Nelson, Andrew Brockdorf)
- “My Name” (Waylon Hanel)