Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Southern Family (various)

A different side of the country genre from what I usually get exposed to - 12 artists, only a couple of whom I'd heard of before, with one song each, unified by their southernness and by the producer, Dave Cobb, behind the record. My guess is that a lot of it's close to 'contemporary country' of the type that you might actually hear on the radio if you lived in the USA; my favourites are Miranda Lambert's gentle "Sweet By And By" and the bluesy take on "You Are My Sunshine" by Morgane and Chris Stapleton. Also nice, in quite a classic kind of way, is Brandy Clark's "I Cried", and the Jason Isbell one is good too. Plus, I enjoyed learning that Waylon Jennings has a son named Shooter Jennings.