In the meantime, Pardi surfaces with new old music
The release features six previously unreleased tracks recorded for consideration for Pardi's debut album, "Write You A Song." Pardi plays many of these songs in his live show, according to his web site. Pardi co-produced and co-wrote all of the songs on "The B Sides."
The track listing is:
1. Fightin' The Fool (Jon Pardi, Bart Butler, Davy Ulbrich)
2. Over My Head (Jon Pardi, Trent Summar, Gary Nicholson)
3. Drinkin' With Me (Jon Pardi, Britton Cameron, Doug Kahan)
4. Back on the Backroads (Jon Pardi, Davy Ulbrich, Rich McCready)
5. Rainy Night Song (Jon Pardi)
6. Borrowed Time (Jon Pardi, Keith Follese, Adrienne Follese)
Pardi recently partnered with VEVO for "Intro to the Pardi," an exclusive three-part documentary following his journey from rural northern California to Nashville. The series also chronicles his debut album release on Capitol Records, as well as touring.
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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