(NASHVILLE, TN – Feb. 7, 2025) – ACM-nominated trio Runaway June today released the beguiling and melodic love song “To Be Yours,” available now across all digital and streaming partners.
STREAM / LISTEN TO “To Be Yours” HERE.
WATCH the song’s official visualizer video HERE.
“To Be Yours” arrives just as singer Stevie Woodward announced her engagement to boyfriend Jordan Howell as well as shared her engagement photos taken by Taylor G. Kelly at Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel, exclusively to People.com earlier today.
READ Stevie Woodward interview with People.com and see the exclusive engagement photos HERE.
“To Be Yours” was penned by Runaway June band members Jennifer Wayne, Natalie Stovall and Woodward alongside Aaron Eshuis (one of MusicRow’s “Top 100 Songwriters of 2024”) and the track’s six-time GRAMMY-winning producer, Ron Fair. Woodward’s tender lead vocal floats above lush harmonies, gentle acoustic guitars, and a tender instrumental hook from Stovall’s fiddle, as she tells her now-fiancé that all they really need in life is each other:
You and I could sail in a boat on the Atlantic
Climb Mount Everest, or skydive in Paris
Leave the world behind, build a house on a deserted shore
But I would be happy just to be yours
“At the time that we wrote ‘To Be Yours,’ I was talking to my boyfriend about, do we want kids one day or do we not?” recalls Woodward. “And I was thinking, ‘If we weren’t lucky enough to have a family, I would be happy just to be yours.’”
“When Stevie brought in that idea and that melody, we were so over the moon about it,” says Stovall. “It was such a fun writing experience.”
“‘To Be Yours’ is just a beautiful love song and one of our favorite songs that we’ve written together,” adds Wayne. “Natalie and I felt like it was a gift from God, except that it was a gift from Stevie!”
Woodward met Howell, a Nashville-based entrepreneur, three years ago at their mutual gym. As told to People writer Tricia Despres, Woodward had just returned from recording “To Be Yours” in the studio when she opened the door of her home to find candles lit and rose petals trailing throughout the house.
Runaway June will debut “To Be Yours” on the Grand Ole Opry stage next Wednesday, Feb. 12, when the trio joins Lauren Alaina, LoCash, Opry member Mark Wills and more for the Mossy Oak Presents Conservation Aid, a live concert benefit for The NWTF Foundation, supporting the future of our wild places and wildlife.
ABOUT RUNAWAY JUNE
Strong-minded, soft-hearted, and wildly free-spirited, each member of Runaway June possesses the kind of powerhouse talent and radiant charisma that fully commands the spotlight. But when the three musicians sing together, their crystalline harmonies create an impact well beyond the sum of its parts and instantly stir up a whole world of feeling: sweet relief from heartache, escape from the everyday chaos, an unabashed freedom to shake off your inhibitions.
Gifted, celebrated creators from the writing room to the studio and concert stage, Runaway June is comprised of founding member Jennifer Wayne (vocals, rhythm guitar), Natalie Stovall (vocals, fiddle, mandolin) and Stevie Woodward (lead vocals and guitar, harmonica).
With Runaway June’s career triumphs including earning nominations from the Academy of Country Music Awards and the CMT Music Awards, bringing their electrifying live set to spots on tour with country icons like Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan, and scoring a major radio hit with their GOLD-certified breakthrough single “Buy My Own Drinks,” the Nashville-based trio are now set to deliver a new chapter, and their effervescent sound shines like never before.
“To Be Yours” is the latest release from the “next hot trend in country music” (Billboard). Produced by six-time GRAMMY winner Ron Fair (Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Carlton), the beguilingly melodic love song finds Runaway June’s lush three-part vocal harmonies floating above gentle acoustic guitars and a tender fiddle to declare that all a couple really needs in life is each other.
