It’s already a balmy 92 degrees and sunny here in Nashville, TN, and I’ve been trying since 8 o’clock this morning to put into words how this whole pandemic has affected (and effected) me and my fellow artists and creators. My name is John Goolsby, and I’ve been a full-time music industry professional (if you can call being a singer/songwriter a professional!) since 2011.
Revelations are upon us, and it is not only the title of Doc Fell & Co.’s newest release, but also the feeling you may get while listening to it. A revelation is what makes you consider some factor of human existence in a new or different way, and that is the running theme of the 11 songs on their 4th studio album.
We all have events in our lives that we will never forget where we were. For my parents’ generation it might by the assassination of President Kennedy or the landing on the moon, for me it’s the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, the plane attacks of 9/11, and, more recently, the mass shooting in Las Vegas. On the first night of our girls’ trip, October 1, 2011, we walked out of a show
For those who have never heard any of Lori McKenna’s work…here is your warning. If you put one of her albums on, you’d better be prepared for a good cry, ‘cause there is just no way to avoid it. Lori has always had this innate skill of writing songs in terms that anyone who has lived more than a decade can relate to. She writes about the hard stuff and she does
