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Concert Review: Brian Nutter – Bourbon Street Blues Bar, Nashville, TN

13 years ago Liv Carter 3
Nashville has a rich tradition of harboring extremely talented sidemen. Keith Urban lead-guitarist Brian Nutter has been working on his own project for a while now and is using a break in touring to venture out with his own band – bassist Sean Harrison, drummer Phil Wilson, and Lee Turner on organ. The quartet played Read More

Concert Review: Rick Huckaby at Dan McGuinness Pub – Nashville, TN – November 16, 2011

13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Concert Review: Rick Huckaby at Dan McGuinness Pub – Nashville, TN – November 16, 2011
Music fans everywhere will know this – when you really love to watch a band play, there’s something incredibly fun about introducing new people to the music and watching them become fans too. Last night, November 16, at Dan McGuinness Pub in Nashville, Rick Huckaby and his band got to impress one of my friends Read More

CD Review: Lip Service – EG Kight

13 years ago Liv Carter 1
Lip Service – EG Kight (Vizztone/Blue South, 2011) Over the years I have drifted in and out of musical phases, but the one genre that was consistently present was blues. Because of this, no matter which category your music fits in, if you infuse it with blues, it is very likely to get my attention. Read More

Single Review: Tailgate Party – Roy Solis

13 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Single Review: Tailgate Party – Roy Solis
Songwriters: Roy Solis, Johnny Garcia and Troy Powers When you write a song about a topic that has been brought up thousands of times before, it’s important to bring something new to the discussion. Roy Solis‘s ‘Tailgate Party’ does not even seem to try. Set on repeating the same sort of phrases found in innumerable Read More

Single Review: ‘You Gonna Fly’ – Keith Urban

13 years ago Liv Carter 4
Songwriters: Preston Brust, Chris Lucas, Jaren Johnston With a simple ‘1-2-3’ at the start, ‘You Gonna Fly’ presents itself immediately as an irresistible toe-tapper. Keith Urban‘s new single has a story to tell but it aims to do so while you are dancing. With easily accessible imagery, this poor boy romance drags you right to Read More

Single Review: Ours – Taylor Swift

13 years ago Liv Carter 3
Songwriter: Taylor Swift Pulling a sixth single from the hugely successful Speak Now album, Taylor Swift goes the simple route. ‘Ours’ is an innocent, girl-meets-boy love letter aimed squarely at her main demographic. In ‘Ours,’ the girl daydreams about her boy and has an internal dialogue about the challenges their young love might face. The Read More

Jimmy Wayne – Paper Angels – An Artist’s Inspirational Book

14 years ago Liv Carter 3
No stranger to journaling and songwriting, but certainly a self-proclaimed novice as a novelist, Jimmy Wayne’s “Paper Angels” was released on November 1st. Co-written with Travis Thrasher,”Paper Angels” is a fictional  story meant to inspire others to help and give back to those who are much less fortunate, many times those are people in our own communities, Read More

Single Review: Home – Dierks Bentley

14 years ago Liv Carter 4
Songwriters: Dierks Bentley, Dan Wilson and Brett Beavers Dierks Bentley has been placed in a bind by corporate country radio. When he releases ultra-accessible fodder pretty indistinguishable from a hundred other songs (see: ‘Am I the Only One?’) he achieves great chart success; well-written pieces of musical art  get overlooked (see: ‘Draw Me a Map’). Read More

Single Review – Uncountrify Me – Barry Michael

14 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Single Review – Uncountrify Me – Barry Michael
Songwriters: Corey Barker and Barry Michael The latest release to contribute to the plague of country songs proclaiming the artist’s inherent ‘countriness’ is Barry Michael‘s ‘Uncountrify Me’. In the song, Michael warns a woman that, while she may be able to adjust some of his behavior, she won’t be able to reverse his being ‘country.’ Read More