NASHVILLE, TN (Sept. 19, 2025) – QHMG / Stone Country Records’ modern country traditionalist Spencer Hatcher today released “When She Calls Me Cowboy (Western Version),” a stripped-down, alone-on-the-prairie, acoustic rendering of his current focus track.  

Whereas the steamy, full-band original version of “When She Calls Me Cowboy” would still be at home in a honky-tonk, the “Western Version” leans into the intimacy of the song’s lyric, peeling off everything except the acoustic-country string essentials. On this new “Western Version,” the only drumming a cowboy hears will be in his heart. 

STREAM / LISTEN TO “When She Calls Me Cowboy (Western Version)” HERE. 

WATCH the “When She Calls Me Cowboy (Western Version)” visualizer HERE. 

STREAM / LISTEN TO “When She Calls Me Cowboy (Original Version)” HERE. 

Penned by hit country songwriters Marv Green (Lonestar’s BMI Song of the Year, “Amazed”), Bart Butler (Jon Pardi’s “Your Heart or Mine”) and Tim Nichols (Tim McGraw’s GRAMMY-winning No. 1 “Live Like You Were Dying”), “When She Calls Me Cowboy” is centered around a cheeky term of endearment used behind closed doors. The song’s sweet-relief chorus highlights how “cowboy” can mean so much more than other affectionate nicknames like “baby” and “darlin’”:  

And when she calls me cowboy  

Lets her hair fall down boy 

Gets that look in her eye says I better hold on tight 

It’s gonna be a good night 

When she turns out the lights 

That’s her way of sayin’ I need you right now boy 

When she calls me cowboy 

Both the original and “Western” versions of “When She Calls Me Cowboy” were produced by Jason Sellers, Ilya Toshinskiy (Jelly Roll) and Mickey Jack Cones (Joe Nichols). 

“I’ve always loved a classic country song—like Conway Twitty’s ‘I’d Love to Lay You Down’—that captures the tender, private moments between a man and his woman,” says Hatcher. “‘When She Calls Me Cowboy’ is in that tradition. It still has that tenderness, and a beat you can dance around your kitchen to, just like in the song.” 

Directed by Sam Aldrich, the recently released official music video for “When She Calls Me Cowboy (Original Version)” tells an after-dark, line-dancing love story about a starry-eyed young couple who start the night on a crowded dance floor but then—after she calls him “cowboy”—steal away to a secluded barn. Hatcher serves as both the onstage performer and fly-on-the-wall narrator for this romantic tale, set at a small-town barn dance filled with line dancing, twinkling lights, wagon wheels and nostalgia. The music video was filmed at Tennessee Music Farm in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.  

Noted by Billboard for his sound that “fits the ’90s-country revival that’s still turning heads among the genre’s base,” Hatcher is a bluegrass-influenced country artist whose previous release “The Way She Lies” received an honorable mention in influential tastemaker Saving Country Music’s “Best Country Singles of 2025 So Far.” 

Hatcher will open for Tracy Lawrence and Josh Turner in Camdenton, Missouri, on Sept.  27, and two shows for Diamond Rio, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Oct. 3, and West Chester, Ohio, on Oct. 4. For full tour dates, visit spencerhatchermusic.com/pages/tour. 

ABOUT SPENCER HATCHER 

Stone Country Records’ Spencer Hatcher is a bluegrass-influenced country artist who was raised on a farm in the heartland of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. By the age of 11, Hatcher was already playing his five-string banjo in his family’s bluegrass band. In 2020, he formed his own country band, backed by younger brother Connor Hatcher, a bass prodigy and “blood harmony” supporting vocalist.   

  

Dubbed the “String King” by his hometown newspaper and quickly developing a reputation across Virginia and neighboring states as an exciting live performer, Hatcher self-booked and played more than 150 shows a year in both 2023 and 2024, often setting venue attendance records.  

  

Hatcher has built a strong fanbase, including more than 900,000 social media followers. The rising star has amassed over 60 million views, including 8.6 million likes on TikTok alone. This led to a high-profile partnership with PepsiCo, with Hatcher co-writing and performing a bluegrass jingle for a nationwide commercial for Mountain Dew Major Melon.  

  

Following his debut release on Stone Country Records—a three-pack of neo-traditional country songs featuring the feel-good focus track “Cold Beer and Common Sense”—Hatcher’s new focus track, the after-dark charmer “When She Calls Me Cowboy,” is available now. Saving Country Music has lauded this young old-fashioned gentleman as “one of the most promising up-and-coming voices in traditional country music.”   

For more information, visit spencerhatchermusic.com and follow him on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.