ADD Sangria-Blake Shelton (Warner Brothers)

Added it to the Edge/Album rotation two months ago, but I’ve been playing it on my webstation since the album came out and think I can say with confidence now: This record won’t burn. I’ve heard it dozens of times and I reach for the volume slider to turn it up every time it comes … Read more

Tonight Looks Good On You-Jason Aldean (Broken Bow)

He keeps it going just a bit too long, the extra thirty or fifty seconds doesn’t make it a better record. Too much steak. And prime beef it is. It’s a sexy and seductive record. A man appreciating his woman. In the daylight he probably, most likely appreciates her mind and her work habits and … Read more

On To Something Good-Ashley Monroe (Warner Brothers)

It’s not one of the greatest song’s she’s written but it still a good one. The song is about optimism, and the value there of. Things ain’t always great, know that and just keep on movin’ ahead and dancing as you do. Nicely packaged.

ADDS – Like A Wrecking Ball-Eric Church (Capitol)

This is a really sexy song. Erotic. Maybe even in a 50 Shades kind of way. He’s been away a long time, they’re both horny and when he gets there, the two of ’em are gonna rattle the house. This is the fifth single off the masterful album.

ADD – Smoke-A Thousand Horses (Republic Nashville)

So now a few more listens since we last talked and the thing’s got me now. I hear some Skynyrdieness in the groove now. The way I’m thinking, this could’a been a hit record had it been released in the latter 70s. It doesn’t sound old, though. The words they rhyme with smoke are cool … Read more

ADD-Sangria-Blake Shelton (Warner Brothers)

A track off his solid new album. Comparing your lover’s lips to wine is as old as the second line of the first song ever written. Finding another way to say it and to get it wrapped up with a seductive hook, is no mean feat. I’ve had this on the air at my little … Read more

review Smoke-A Thousand Horses (Republic Nashville)

It’s a Southern Rock record at its core; talkin’ 1970s here. Nothing wrong with that if you’re into it…which, apart from the relatively few mainstream hits the genre produced, I never much was. ‘Course it did sell a pile of albums and contributed to the growth of Album Rock Radio, so there’s that. This record’s … Read more

Sun Daze-Florida Georgia Line (Republic Nashville)

Here’s a happy little tune about getting blasted on whiskey and rum and then maybe going out for a spin on the Harley. There’s a good way to go meet God in person next Sunday afternoon. And he’s taking his sweetie with him, too. One with a dark heart might hope they get there before … Read more

Something In The Water-Carrie Underwood (Arista)

I don’t think we’ve had a hit record about getting baptized since before Randy Travis started getting picked up for DUI’s. The record is over-produced, she blasts it out like a new age Ethel Merman (google her children) and it’s showing all the signs of being a monster hit.