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[COUNTRY] “Life is about living,” might be country music singer Frankie Ballard’s life motto. “Life is not about who gets out the cleanest at the end, or who’s the most well-preserved and healthiest. I refuse to believe that is what life is about,” he said in a recent Rolling Stone interview. His latest album, El Rio, which was released in June of 2016, pursues this philosophy. He’s not too worried about the dangers of smoking on his latest single from the album, “Cigarette” (he wants his lady to be addicted to him like he’s addicted to that sweet nicotine) and on “It All Started with a Beer,” the album’s first single he’s buying rounds for all of the ladies despite his thin wallet. El Rio is the follow up to Ballard’s successful major label debut Sunshine & Whiskey (we’re sensing a theme here), and his third album overall. The 34-year-old hard drinking country singer returns to Buffalo for a show at the Town Ballroom on Saturday, January 28, presented by Country 106.5 WYRK.