The Country Music Superstar (Trademark Pending)
“Relentlessly Entertaining.” - Rolling Stone Country
Dale Hollow is a man. A very handsome, modest, brilliant, and talented man, at that - and Hollow will be the first to tell you.
Dale Hollow is also a man of many (self-ascribed) nicknames.
The Country Music Superstar (Trademark Pending), Yourstruly, Hack of the Year, and in the big ‘26, Dale Hollow presents the latest and greatest in his ever growing oeuvre (ten dollar word) of monikers: The Country Music King of Queens.
To mark almost four years since Hollow moved from his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee to New York City, Dale Hollow has set out to assert his domain as the preeminent country artist in the greater New York Metropolitan’s burgeoning country scene with his upcoming anthology EP series, Country Music King of Queens.
CMKoQ is a four part series of songs and ballads exploring the ups and downs (very evenly distributed between the two, but mostly ups) of life as a Z-list country star, cost of living (topical! But in like, a funny way), love (always important), loss, and the general fish out of water somewhere between Midnight Cowboy and Paris, Texas with Hollow’s usual sense of twisted earnestness and irony.
The first installment in the series, Country Music King of Queens Vol. 1 releases on January 30, 2026 with Volumes 2, 3, and 4 planned to release throughout the rest of the year.
Dale Hollow Lyrics
Hack of the Year (2023)
All lyrics written by Dale Hollow
Copyright - Dale Hollow 2023/Hollow Headed Enterprises LLC
Poet Laureate of GOOD Country Music - Dale Hollow
“Hack of the Year”
Stupid is as stupid does
Does that make me the dumbest one of all time?
I’ll be a schmuck for a night and a goof for a while
I’m The Hack of the Year, like a lil badge of honor
Cause nobody ever loved a know-it-all.
So I’ll be the greatest halfwit and slowest on the draw
Ooooooooooooooooh-wah-hoo-hoooooooooooo
(Sha-la-la-la, Ooo, Sha-la-la-la)
Ooooooooooooooooh-wah-hoo-hoooooooooooo
(Sha-la-la-la, Ooo, Sha-la-la-la)
Life is like a box of chocolates
You’ve gotta enjoy it until it’s gone
The same things that make you laugh can make you cry
So enjoy while you can, cause we’re ALL gonna die
And it might not be today, but it’ll be here soon.
So I’d like to sit here and eat my chocolate up with you.
Ooooooooooooooooh-wah-hoo-hoooooooooooo
(Sha-la-la-la, Ooo, Sha-la-la-la)
Ooooooooooooooooh-wah-hoo-hoooooooooooo
(Sha-la-la-la, Ooo, Sha-la-la-la)
Dale, it’s Terry. Listen. Big news. I had a great idea - I know you were talking about that one song called like “Hack of the Year” or something. Well, I just had a stroke of genius in the Luby’s earlier… Listen, call the record ‘Hack of the Year,’ that way, if it’s good, you’re being clever, and that way, if it’s bad, people think you did it on purpose. Alright now, call me back here in a second.
Thanks Terry!
I was born to be the Hack of the Year
And please vote me as your Hack of the Year
And it’s my dream to be the Hack of the Year
I hope I die the greatest Hack of the Year