The Red Clay Strays perform at the Wharf Amphitheater on July 3, 2025. Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com

The death of activist Charlie Kirk motivated Alabama’s Red Clay Strays to release a new single calling for understanding, band members said in a podcast appearance that might also have spilled some news about the group’s next album.

Friday, the group will release a standalone single titled “People Hatin’.” In an appearance Tuesday on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast , lead singer Brandon Coleman explained why it was coming out as a single. It came up just after the topic of discussion turned to Kirk’s assassination.

“We got so sick of seeing people put politics above humanity, we actually, we had wrote a song about it in April in the studio, called ‘People Hatin’,’ Coleman tell

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