Instrumentally speaking, Larry Jay’s new EP Written in Whiskey isn’t treading any water that long-term country music fans aren’t used to, but this just might be the record’s most endearing point of intrigue. Rather than trying to dig into new ground, Larry Jay is taking the aesthetics of the old guard and repurposing them for his storytelling, which is something a lot of his peers neither have the ability nor the ambition to do well. The country music community is enjoying a lot of magic coming out of the underground right now, and this EP serves as a true nugget in my…
Author: Heather Savage
It’s not every day that a debut album comes to the forefront of its genre with as mellow a demeanor as Sea Change, but that’s exactly what Corey Stapleton and The Pretty Pirates’ first release as a band seems to be dead set on accomplishing. Now, for some, the name Corey Stapleton might ring a bell: not in music, no, but Stapleton is already a celebrity of sorts having been a state senator and Secretary of State out of Montana. On top of that, he’s a veteran, and now, an accomplished country music star — I don’t know about you,…