Pardi looks for "California Sunrise"
The lead single, "Head Over Boots," has already been released.
Pardi mixes a more traditional sound along with rock. "I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music," said the California native. "As a songwriter, we're looking for a good story and we're always looking to push the limits. I love having those lyrics that at first make you think it's about one thing, but it's really about something so much more."
Pardi recorded each song with a full band. "I'm a big fan of a live band recording, and it was really important for me to get that sound on my record. The heart of this record comes across with a live band. We used seven guys - one band, and there's something special about that."
Songs on the disc are:
Out Of Style
Cowboy Hat
Head Over Boots
Night Shift
Can't Turn You Down
Dirt On My Boots
She Ain't In It
All Time High
Heartache On The Dance Floor
Paycheck
Lucky Tonight
California Sunrise
The disc is the follow-up to Pardi's debut album, "Write You A Song," featuring his top 10 hit, "Up All Night," along with "What I Can't Put Down," "Missin' You Crazy" and "When I've Been Drinkin.'"
Pardi also released an EP last May featuring songs from 2011-2014.
More news for Jon Pardi
- 01/17/25: Pardi announces "Honkytonk Hollywood"
- 01/07/25: Pardi's "Friday Night Hearbreaker" gets video treatment
- 12/04/24: Pardi returns to the road
- 10/27/23: It's Xmas in October with Pardi plus Judds tribute, Flatland Cavalry, Springsteen deluxe
- 10/24/23: Pardi officially joins the Opry
- 10/02/23: Pardi announces first Xmas disc
- 04/29/23: Pardi receives huge surprise at Stagecoach - an Opry invite
- 03/20/23: Pardi, Mr. Saturday Night, returns to action
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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