Hayes, Del & Glen lead new music releases
Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark team up for their first album in 40 years, "Blind, Crippled & Crazy." They released two albums together in the early '70s. Produced by Gary Nicholson, the new album includes swampy blues, soul and honky tonk.
LoCash Cowboys - Chris Lucas and Preston Brust, natives of Baltimore and Kokomo, Ind. respectively- release its self-titled debut CD after releasing three singles for the defunct R&J Records label. The duo co-wrote Keith Urban's 2011 single You Gonna Fly and Tim McGraw's 2012 single Truck Yeah.
Eddie Spaghetti is better known as lead singer of The Supersuckers, but he's on his own with "The Value of Nothing." This is the Seattle resident's first solo album of all originals.
Texas-based singer/songwriter Slaid Cleaves gets personal on 'Still Fighting the War" with such songs as the title track. Inspired by a Pulitzer-winning series of photos of an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD, the title track addresses the plight of those returning from war and struggling to readjust to society. The 13 songs were produced by Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Lloyd Maines and Mark Hallman.
More news for Hunter Hayes
- 10/21/24: Hayes is "Still Fallin'"
- 09/09/24: Hayes plans three-song EP
- 10/15/21: Hayes plans to go "Wild Blue"
- 08/16/19: Hayes, Crowell drop new discs
- 08/14/19: Hayes announces surprise album coming Friday
- 06/17/19: Hayes finds "One Good Reason"
- 02/07/19: Hayes gets Closer to You
- 01/22/19: Hayes comes out with "Heartbreak"
CD reviews for Hunter Hayes
It's impossible to not be impressed with the variety Hunter Hayes has packed in his brief, seven-song "The 21 Project." The diminutive singer/songwriter proves himself to be the master of multiple song styles - even with such a short project. Each song is presented three times (studio, acoustic and live).
Perhaps Hayes' greatest lyrical character trait is empathy, which he reveals again with "Where It All Begins," a track he both wrote and recorded with superstar ...
A few things changed since Hunter Hayes debuted in 2011, but the bottom line remains the same - Hayes has a syrupy smooth and sweet voice, but there's not a tremendous amount of depth there to his feel good material. Hayes struck it rich the first time out on his major label debut garnering 3 top 10 songs including "I Want Crazy." The Louisiana native also was a one-man band playing and singing all parts.
That's not the case this time as he ceded CO-directorial control to Dann Huff. ...
Hunter Hayes rereleased his debut self-titled album with a few additional tracks and three rerecorded ones. In any other genre of music, the new songs would have simply been released as an EP, but for some inexplicable reason, country music seems to be reluctant to embrace that form. The 800,000 fans who already own the original may find it irritating to pay full price for 5 new songs. People who have not warmed up to Hayes maple syrup smooth voice and decidedly pop version of country probably ...
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