Too many signature drinks, bachelorette parties and "Wagon Wheel" covers, okay?)īelow is an honest review of all six bars meant to help you make smart decisions during your next trip to Nashville. ( John Rich's Redneck Riviera is near the river on Broadway, but we didn't get there this time. Across Broadway you'll find Blake Shelton's Ole Red, and around the corner is Florida Georgia Line's FGL House. Walk two blocks from there to dive into Alan Jackson's AJ's Good Time Bar, and across the street from that, find Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row - perhaps the most surprising stop on this self-guided tour. 1s and awards, I just want to reflect on being a real person living real life.Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean are the most recent country stars to open bar/restaurants/venues, and appropriately for the two friends, the establishments are adjoined. "I'm an open book, unafraid of digging in my brain and telling the truth. "I grew up hunting and doing every outdoor thing my father wanted - I might curl my hair and put on makeup, but hell, I'm a hard-working girl who played four-hour bar gigs and carried my guitar to my car afterward," Langley says with a laugh. Other songs like "Country Boy's Dream Girl" offer something connective about her upbringing. In a town where far more aggressive behavior has been celebrated in the name of broken-heartedness, something so coldly austere about leaving a man behind, like kicking a bad habit, highlights Langley's preternatural maturity. Then, after the inevitable breakup, the sudden smoking habit you've developed disappears in the first breath taken after crying over heartbreak. Hanging out with a guy you like, trying to mimic his cool outside of a bar or at a bonfire and smoking his cigarettes until you begin dating. "Make Me Wanna Smoke" stems from Langley and Corley standing outside of a studio smoking cigarettes, making Langley think about a situation very typical for the average female, mainstream country music-loving 20-something: But then, my heart got broken," Langley told The Tennessean.ĭigging into her well of musical inspirations for answers, she mined a myriad of honest desires aided by self-described "alt-country" co-writers like Davis Corley taking a few mid-songwriting session cigarette drags for some nicotine-sparked inspiration. "I used to write what I thought people wanted to hear. and you come home drunk from the bar," she sings on "Why We Fight." The chorus of "That's why we fight, put lightning in the sky, start smashing every bottle we keep bottled up inside" speaks directly to the notion of aggressive lyricism. "You know it pisses me off when it's 3 a.m. Songs like "Country Boy's Dream Girl," "Make Me Wanna Smoke" and the Koe Wetzel collaboration "Why We Fight" are approachable, eschewing flowery metaphors for direct emotional confrontation. However, Langley's comprehensive knowledge of music seeps into her debut EP.
Playing in college bars and at hometown weddings doesn't lend itself to playing many original songs. Nashville has allowed her songwriting chops to surge to the forefront.
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She's the name fastest to the lips of the cream of the crop of a decade of Nashville women whose undeniable rock chops kept them outside of Music Row's desire to service very little outside of R&B and pop-aimed country iterations for the past two decades.Įlle King counts her as a vital collaborator on her breakout country album "Come Get Your Wife" (she's the co-writer of "Out Yonder," plus has credits on four songs overall) while she's also shared stages with Lainey Wilson.
Via her May 19-released, eight-track debut EP "Excuse The Mess," Langley's graduated almost right on time from the College of Rock with a B.A.
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