"Country Life" was commercially released 20 October 2003 on the band's own label Hands on Music with the catalogue number HMCD19, but had already been sold at the duo's concerts since the middle of the year. The album was released as a double disc set, with the album on the first disc (subtitled "The Album"), and a bonus disc entitled "The Demos", which contained demo versions of the album's songs "Country Life", "Hard Shoulder" and "I Promise You". The bonus disc also contained other CD-ROM bonus material, namely the music videos for "Country Life" and their older song "The Train", a photo slideshow set to "I Promise You", a lyrics section set to "The Exe Estuary" from their previous album "The Path", live footage from their 2001 performance at the Royal Albert Hall and a downloadable screensaver. The bonus disc prompted the BBC to say the album was "lavishly packaged". Although no singles were released from the album, the title track had a music video produced for it.