The world lost country music icon Charley Pride to complications from COVID-19 back in 2020.

He was 86.

Pride’s death came just weeks after he received a lifetime achievement award at the Country Music Association Awards. And now, all these years after his death, Pride has one final gift to give back to all of us — a new album.

It’s not really new, though. In fact, it’s an album that the country crooner recorded back in the mid-1980s called “Endlessly: A Tribute to Brook Benton.” It is set to be released on Sept. 19.

So, why now and what prevented Pride from dropping the album all those years ago?

Well, according to The Dallas Morning News , he recorded the 10-song album paying homage to Benton, which the outlet called “an under-sung R&B crooner” from the 1950s and 1960s, but the

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