Former child yodeling prodigy Mason Ramsey isn’t all grown up – but at 16 years old, he’s getting close.

Ramsey released his coming-of-age EP “Falls Into Place” last week, his first new studio album since 2019. Ramsey is credited with co-writing four of the five songs on the EP.

“I took some time to settle back in at home in Golconda (Illinois) the past few years where I was able to do some big life things like get my first job, go to prom, and work on remodeling my truck,” Ramsey said. “I also was able to spend time playing the guitar, focus on my songwriting, and figure out what I really wanted to say with my music. My fans have never forgotten about me, and this EP is for them.”

Ramsey was 11 years old in 2018 when a video of him singing Hank Williams’ “Lovesick Blues” in a Walmart went viral. A few days later, the clip had accumulated more than 25 million views. His unexpected popularity won him an invitation to appear on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” where he found out he would make his Grand Ole Opry debut.

But the singer doesn’t want to be judged on the music he made as a pre-teen.

“These songs are actually life experience, life experiences that I've written about,” Ramsey said, explaining that the tracks combine rock and ‘90s country.

Ramsey’s grandparents inspired him to write “Reasons To Come Home.”

“It just talks about spending time with them and realizing that they don't have a whole lot of time left,” he said. “I just wanted to spend as much time with them as I could before I got really busy.”

He borrowed a phrase from his aunt to write “Next Right Thing.”

“My aunt always tells me to do the next right thing because it is sometimes easy to do the next wrong thing,” he explained.

Ramsey wrote “All I Wanna Be” in 2019 with Taylor Phillips and Ben Stennis about trying to shake the notion that he was just the kid who yodeled at Walmart.

“It talks about what I was going through at the time,” he said. “People kept calling me the yodeling kid, and I wanted people to call me by my actual name and not see me as a meme anymore.”

Even though his breakthrough came five years ago, Ramsey thinks people still view him as the same little boy.

“It was just so crazy for me to go through,” he said. “I wanted to release ‘All I Wanna Be’ this year because I’m still known as that. I still do some yodeling stuff, but this is more of a reintroduction for the new me, and that's why we're putting that one out.”

The teen just wants to be known as singer/songwriter Mason Ramsey, he said.

“I want people to know I’m someone that loves their fans as much as they love me,” he said. “ In fact, I think I love my fans more than they love me. Without them, there would be no Mason Ramsey. So all my support goes out to them. But I just want people to see me as a normal kid, no different than any other. That's how I would want them to see me.”

Mason Ramsey, “Falls Into Place”

1. “Next Right Thing” (Mason Ramsey, Kendall Goodman, Brandon Day)**

2. “Falls Into Place” (Mason Ramsey, Lauren McLamb, Jenna Paulette)*

3. “All I Wanna Be” (Mason Ramsey, Taylor Phillips, Ben Stennis)*

4. “She Got It Outta Me” (Tofer Brown, Griffen Palmer, Liz Rose, Geoff Warburton)*

5. “Reasons To Come Home” (Mason Ramsey, Jeff Middleton, Rob Pennington)*