Steve

Must be half a dozen records in the stack now about summer, sun, girl watchin’, etc. Of them, this is the best one. He’s riding a hit now, his album’s sold quite well.

One of the two or three hottest guys in the biz now, he’s ridin’ that “can’t do no wrong” wave that’ll carry him into the Top 10 on sheer momentum alone. Even with a dippy, bland paint-by-numbers song like this one.

Sounds like a hit record to me from the first spin. It opens with a gentle, hypnotic beat with some unique sonic business goin’ on, kind of electronic but not too weird. Brice comes in and at first he’s not so much singing as confessing. He doesn’t dance. He’s got two left feet. Ain’t his … Read more

The record is beginning to seduce me. It’s like a total, exotic surprise on first listen; nothing comes to mind that I can compare it to. There’s a rather surreal quality to it, like maybe it’s a Country song conjured through a haze of mind altering chemicals. Yet it’s not so far out there as … Read more

This song’ll make women love the hunk even more than they do already.

That echo thing that runs through it gives it an immediate leg-up, makes the record stand out, grabs your ear, says: pay attention, you wanna hear this! Hit, sure.

In another age, this would’a been called Progressive Rock. Never much a fan for ProgRock, myself. Not enough satisfying hooks to be found there. This one does have a hook, of sorts. Certainly not a traditional one, cause you probably won’t be humming it when you’re not listening to it. But when it’s coming through … Read more

From one of the best Country albums of the year, a pure blooded song about one of the two definitive topics of Country music songs. This here became one of my all time favorites the very first time I heard it last June. I’ve played it bunches since then and am still smiling every time … Read more