Steve I’ve spent another two weeks with it and am still under it’s spell. Just about all my relatives live in sleepy little towns like thisin south Arkansas and east Texas and so I can personally attest to the factualness of the lyric. I got one cousin you just would not believe and my Dad’s church … Read more
The man’s voice is smooth as silk, rich with character. So why is it that, other than his first single, I’m yawning whenever I hear him? I think it’s due to his corporate packaging. This record sounds like a project, a “product”. Great voice, check. Sappy, but not too sappy lyric, check. Top session players, … Read more
I’m still thinking it’s kind of a messy record, but it’s moving some digital sales; 270 thousand so far and that without much radio airplay.
It’s a very good album. I narrowed it down to a choice between two cuts to recommend for early, regular rotation by this most important superstar. The title track, Welcome To The Fishbowl, is a fine commentary on the Big Brother society we are complacently allowing to overtake us. I expect it’ll be the next … Read more
The story in this lyric is: the only thing we do right is screw so let’s try that one more time and see if it helps this troubled relationship get better. Ah….no, that won’t work and if a guy gives this pitch in real life she’d either throw a vase at him or just roll … Read more
I suppose it’s a single. Kind’a. They put out a video for it. But, then it won’t be promoted to radio as that might some how put a damper on Miranda’s official radio single. For a quarter century now, I’ve been puttin’ more-than-one-new-song-by-top-Country-artists into the Currents list and have never once seen a down-side, nor … Read more
I like the first part of this record a whole bunch. Then, I like most of the rest of it quite a bit. It maybe gets a tad over-wrought and it’s minute longer than it needs to be, but it’s an interesting package.
On first listen, it’s rather unimpressive. There’s no hook to hum along with. The record sounds more like a marketing project than a serious attempt at music-making. He’s got better stuff than this in him.
I there there’s at least two other songs on the album that’d be better radio singles than this one. On the other hand, it is very unique and creative. It’ll grab your ear and hold it all the way through. I’m thinkin’ it might have a rather short shelf-life, though.
After going through a bunch of over-produced, way-too-loud new releases, it’s a breath of fresh air to hit the play button and come up with this. An energetic, mostly acoustic musical workout. A lyric with a hook you can be singing along with about halfway through your first listen. A record that ain’t never ever … Read more