Pardi, Kristofferson release new discs
Friday, September 2, 2022 – Jon Pardi released his fourth studio album, "Mr. Saturday Night," today. The album features Pardi's current number one single, "Last Night Lonely." The 14-song release reunites producers Bart Butler, Ryan Gore and Pardi: the same team behind the boards of his critically acclaimed third studio album, "Heartache Medication." Midland helps sing with Pardi on "Longneck Way To Go."
Kris Kristofferson is out with "Live at Gilley's - Pasadena, TX: September 15, 1981" via New West Records. The previously unreleased 15-song set was the final date of Kristofferson's 1981 tour and was recorded at the Pasadena, Texas honky tonk most well known for its role in the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy." Kristofferson is backed by a band featuring Stephen Bruton, Billy Swan, Donnie Fritts, Tommy McClure, Glen Clark and Sammy Creason. The album also features liner notes written by the Mickey Gilley, as well as additional pieces written by the George Strait and Billy Swan.
More news for Jon Pardi
- 07/20/26: Pardi sets fall tour
- 06/12/26: Urban, Midland, Wetzel, Gill offer new music
- 05/26/26: Pardi goes deluxe - 10 years later
- 05/01/26: Pardi revisits "California Sunrise"
- 04/15/26: Pardi takes "Boots Off" in video
- 09/09/25: Pardi celebrates holidays with Florida shows
- 04/14/25: Pardi extends tour into fall
- 04/11/25: Pardi, Muscadine Bloodline, Stuart and The Fabulous Superlatives Turnpike Troubadours release music
CD reviews for Jon Pardi
You know from the first notes of Jon Pardi's "All I Want For Christmas" that this is going to be good album as it starts off with a steel guitar intro. Later, there is also a twin fiddle solo. These elements reveal how this track is a true country version. It's also executed well, which makes this old holiday warhorse of a song somehow sound fresh and new. It's one of 12 winners and proves once again what a gift Pardi is to us all.
The content is consistently secular, ...
Jon Pardi's "Mr. Saturday Night" sounds as though most of its stories take place on the weekend at an idealized country honky tonk. Many of these drinking holes also feature swinging doors and jukeboxes. They don't seem like citified bars, but they perfectly fit Pardi's enjoyable neo-traditional song cycle.
Although the drums pound much harder on the single "Last Night Lonely" than they do on truly traditional country music, Pardi incorporates far more fiddle ...
Jon Pardi may sing about heartache medication with this collection of songs, but his focus on arrangements filled with traditional musical elements (fiddle, steel guitar and twangy electric guitar) is joyfully medicinal for anyone sickened by so much mainstream country music that lacks many (if not all) of these essential country instruments.
These songs read as well as they sound, though. For example, the drinking song "Me and Jack" begins with a thumping, Johnny Cash-inspired country groove. ...
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