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Showing posts with label Eric Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Church. Show all posts
Sep 29, 2023
Apr 27, 2023
Wrasslin' Country Reaction Gifs #70
When somebody throws on some Colter Wall
When I go see Willie's Outlaw Music Festival while my friend's out of town
When you have to go back to work at the place where everybody listens to pop country
Did you say you wanted to hear some country, and then request Kane Brown? That's an oxymoron or something.
Anytime a camera shows up around
a modern outlaw country artist
Oh you payed $1000 for a concert by a drunk and he missed the show?
When my friend sees the results of my drunken tumble at the Turnpike show last night
Smoke a little smoke, drop a few elbows
"Hey Morgan, you have a show tomorrow. Think you should be renting out a bar for 3 hours tonight?"
Feb 20, 2023
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Apr 4, 2022
Stolen Memes: Eric Church, Garth Brooks, Sam Hunt
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Apr 1, 2022
Mar 31, 2022
Breaking Bad Country Reaction Gifs 2
When a country fan asks for a good hard rock recommendation
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand
Bands and singers seeing their Spotify royalties
Chris Knight songs are about work, bad families,
When you go to a country concert and they have a DJ
When you crank the rental car and "Fancy Like" is blasting
Country music evolved into 2019 pop music?
Somebody suggested I listen to the new Brantley song
When you see Dan + Shay on your friend's playlist
Eric Church fans after he cancelled a show for basketball
Dec 8, 2021
What Your Favorite 2021 Album Says About You
satire obviously
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Florida-Georgia Line - Life Rolls On
Your life peaked in 2014. You cried when you thought FGL was breaking up. You are unable to parallel park without the assistance of your backup camera. Your daughter will have to spell her name aloud seven-thousand times in her life.
Clay Walker - Texas to Tennessee
You’re a huge 90s country fan with kids and a busy life, and you didn’t actually listen to this album. You just assumed it was good because Clay Walker.
Strand of Oaks - In Heaven
You haven’t been out of the house in 19 months except to get packages from Smoke Cartel off the porch. You’re apolitical except about weed.
Eric Church - &
You’re in the Eric Church fan club. You’ve seen Eric 37 times. You named your son Kenneth (Eric’s first name). You need another hobby.
Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
You are a sports writer or a Sturgill Stan. You spent a great deal of time making fun of Hillbilly Elegy on Twitter this year.
Niko Moon - Good Time
You can only listen to happy music because even a Hallmark movie is too emotionally roiling for you. You have argued passionately online about how Niko is in fact a country singer, and then you forgot he existed a month later when his second single tanked, and you only remember him now because he was number one on your Spotify Wrapped.
Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
You are whatever hipsters are called in 2021. You raged when this album was left out of the Grammy country nominations, but only because everyone else in your social bubble was doing the same. You have never heard Same Trailer, Different Park.
Aug 27, 2021
Album Review / Grayson Jenkins / Turning Tides
A fast-learning late-bloomer, Grayson Jenkins wrote his first song at 21 and now 7-8 years later is releasing Turning Tides, his third full album. Its writing was completed before the pandemic and recording took place just a few months in but Jenkins decided to hold off on releasing it, leaving him on hold, mentally and career-wise. He considered hanging it up more than once in 2020, but thankfully he did not.
If you’re a first timer like myself, Grayson Jenkins has a warm, reedy voice that welcomes you right in. His bio mentions Eric Church and Keith Whitley as descriptors, but I’m hearing more Bruce Robison. None of those are comparisons he’d turn his nose up at, I’m guessing. The music is much the same - enveloping and hospitable, a chilled out honky-tonk experience.
There’s a lot of what I’d call ‘soothing darkness’ sonically on this record. - a low key, soft approach, that while far from sparse musically, gives Jenkins a lot of room vocally. What he does with that space is croon to us of lonely nights, anxiety, hard work, and glimmers of hope.
The title cut is a main example of that sound of soothing darkness. Lyrically, though, it’s a ray of sun through drawn curtains, seeing hope after a hard time. Though written before these “crazy times,” one wouldn’t be wrong to apply the song to our current state.
“Low Down Lady” is a shuffling bar room toe-tapper that seems custom made for a Texas dancehall. It never gets around to explaining why she’s a “bad low-down lady,” but you know he’s crazy for somebody he ought not be, and it really doesn’t matter with a song this damn fun. Piano, steel, and a guitar solo fill this one out to perfection.
One of the highlights of the album for me, “Picket Fences” was co-written with Nicholas Jamerson (he of much independent country affection and also half the duo Sundy Best). It’s a fiddle-heavy look at the life of a musician compared to that of the average thirty-something. “I’ll take my rambling, keep your picket fence,” sings Jenkins, more than satisfied with the path he picked.
Turning Tides is yet another entry in the seemingly endless parade of excellent albums out of the Bluegrass State. At this point I’m surprised burgeoning musicians don’t move to Kentucky to get a dose of whatever’s in that water. Anyway, this record, it’s a good one and with it, you can still get in relatively early on another artist who’s gonna be a stalwart in the scene for years to come.
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Turning Tides is available today everywhere you get music, but especially right here.
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