Here we go again – after Granger Smith released the first part of his Country Things album in September 2020, the second half of the songs has been released just some two months later. Here is my review another eight Country Things songs.
Granger Smith – Country Things, Vol. 1 (incl. Bio)
As the first part of the album came out that recently, I simply refer to the posting. The posting also includes short bio information:
Granger Smith – Country Things, Vol. 2 – Track By Track
The second half of the album includes eight songs and 25 minutes. This leads to a total of 16 songs / 52 minutes. There feels to be a combined version of both sets with two additional bonus tracks as well.
1. Man Made
All us boys wanna grow up
To make our mamas proud
Find that girl that lifts us up
When life gets us down
Behind any guy doing anything right
There’s a woman’s work at hand
If a man made anything it’s ’cause
A woman made that man
The song starts with a praise to the mothers out there – Granger Smith just sets himself to one of the favorite potential son-in-laws in the business. Quiet, very nice song.
2. Buy A Boy A Baseball
Country music is somehow the genre of US traditions in many ways. The close link between country music and Christian music, traditional values… The song just does not only to Buy a boy a baseball and Give a boy a bible, but also Buy a girl flowers, […] treat her like a lady. It is maybe just a bit more explicit in here than in many other country songs.
3. Anything Like Me
Anything Like Me is a very straight, modern country song. A bit too much of Nashville mainstream, maybe – but overall, a really good one.
4. That’s What Love Looks Like
That’s what love looks like
It’s everywhere, hiding right there
In plain sight
And all we gotta do to see it
Is look with our hearts
And let it open up our eyes
That’s what love looks like
This one is a perfect winter country song: put it on your snuggle-close-to-the-fireplace playlist. Beautiful emotional song.
5. Where I Get It From
Praising traditional US country life is a key topic of this album.
That’s where I get it from
That’s where I get it from
Half sinner, half small-town saint
That’s how I grew up, yeah raised up
Am what I am and I ain’t what I ain’t
A little Friday night free fall
Yes ma’am, hey y’all
No man, it ain’t my fault
That’s where I get it from, yeah
On the melodic side, it is a very powerful good modern country listen. On the lyrics side, it is a bit too much for me – I should be better in getting used to while listening to that genre.
6. 6 String Stories
A ponytail smile, a few houses away
Had me so heartsick, first love, seventh grade
I’d write her a note, pretty words that I knew
Folded in torn-up pages of college rule
It was hot and heavy but I wasn’t ready
To be tied to one girl that long
She cried when I tried to move on
That’s when I wrote my first song
My favorite track on the album. Quite slow and maybe thus also not that present at first sight, but a beautiful song about songwriting. Great one.
7. Workaholic (feat. Earl Dibbles Jr.)
For the last two songs, Granger Smith is using his alter ego Earl Dibbles Jr. A very modern country-hip-hop song. It’s a very different and characteristic style – and I definitely like that.
8. Diesel (feat. Earl Dibbles Jr.)
Earl Dibbles does country the hard way: the electric guitars shout out the melody to Diesel. The song is a quite surprising, but nonetheless really good finisher of the album.
Granger Smith – Country Things, Vol. 2 – Spotify
Here is the Spotify widget to the second part of Granger Smith’s Country Things.
Granger Smith – Country Things, Vol. 2 – My View
I slightly struggled with the beginning of this second half of Country Things songs – but the final tracks add a lot of really great music. Thus, I have to say that I finally enjoy Country Things, Vol. 2 more than the September release. Have fun!
Top Pick Country Media Reviews
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Melanie Wiegmann & Carl Carlton – Glory of Love

Gregor McEwan – Going Solo

TracieLynn – More Than a Bad Habit EP

Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway – City of Gold

Lori McKenna – 1988

Tom Astor – Wieder da!

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real – Sticks and Stones

Sean Patrick McGraw – Hillbilly Hippie

Sylvia Aimee – Identity EP

Lucinda Williams – Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart

Deer Tick – Emotional Contracts

Tanya Tucker – Sweet Western Sound

Brandy Clark – Brandy Clark

Anna Demetriou – More To This

Philip Bradatsch – Philip Bradatsch

Dave Hause – Drive It Like It’s Stolen

Esther Rose – Safe To Run

Texas Hippie Coalition – The Name Lives On

Brian Falduto – Gay Country

Drayton Farley- Twenty on High

Dierks Bentley – Gravel & Gold

Joe Henry – All The Eye Can See

Laura Cox – Head Above Water

Richard Lynch – Radio Friend

Adam Warner – What We’re Known For

Poppy Fardell – Back On My Feet

Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver (Various Artists)

Stephanie Quayle – On The Edge

Russell Dickerson – Russell Dickerson

Kenny Foster – Somewhere in Middle America

Alex Williams – Waging Peace

Ashley McBryde – Lindeville

Richard Marx – Songwriter

Dr. John – Things Happen That Way

Kelsea Ballerini – Subject To Change

Kane Brown – Different Man

Charley Crockett – The Man From Waco

Jon Pardi – Mr. Saturday Night

Watkins Family Hour – Vol. 2

Wade Bowen – Somewhere Between The Secret and The Truth

Pete Wolf Band – Crosswalk To Nowhere EP

Brooke Eden – Choosing You EP

Whiskey Myers – Tornillo

More Than Words – Today (Make Today Be the Best Day of Your Life)

Jonny Houlihan – Coffee and Jesus

Kylie Morgan – P.S. EP

Luke Combs – Growin’ Up

The Cumberland River Project – A Smell of Gravy

Brett Eldredge – Songs About You

Carrie Underwood – Denim & Rhinestones

Kyle Daniel – Following the Rain

Old Crow Medicine Show – Paint This Town

Joshua Hedley – Neon Blue

Cole Swindell – Stereotype

Ann Doka – House of Change

Ian Noe – River Fools & Mountain Saints

Tiffany Woys – All About Love EP

Doug Adkins – A Cowboys’ Life

Klaus Lage – Je wahrer die Liebe

Erin Rae – Lighten Up

Katie Henry – On My Way

Conner Smith – Didn’t Go Too Far EP

Noah Guthrie – Blue Wall

Jacob Bryant – Bar Stool Preacher

Rachel Bradshaw – Rachel Bradshaw EP

Carolyn Miller – Thank You EP

Nick Walker – It’s All South From Here EP

Lucinda Williams – Have Yourself A Rockin’ Little Christmas (Lu’s Jukebox Vol. 5)

Wade Bowen – Where Phones Don’t Work EP

Ryan Hurd – Pelago

Toby Keith – Peso In My Pocket

Logan Mize – Welcome To Prairieville

Billy Strings – Renewal

Mickey Guyton – Remember Her Name

Charley Crockett – Music City USA

Peter Maffay – So Weit

Riddy Arman – Riddy Arman

Ashland Craft – Travelin’ Kind

Jayne Denham – Wanted

Clare Dunn – In This Kind Of Light EP

Chris Young – Famous Friends

Laci Kaye Booth – Laci Kaye Booth

Jim Lauderdale – Hope

Ryan Kinder – Room To Dream

Clay Walker – Texas To Tennessee

Los Lobos – Native Sons

Jolina Carl – Mexican Overdrive

Lauren Jenkins – Miles On Me, Part 1 EP

The Wallflowers – Exit Wounds

LANCO – Honky-Tonk Hippies EP

Riley Green – Behind The Bar EP

Gary Allan – Ruthless

Meghan Patrick – Heart On My Glass

pez – All Lowercase EP

Kylie Morgan – Love, Kylie EP

Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real – A Few Stars Apart

Black River Delta – Shakin’

Blackberry Smoke – You Hear Georgia

Blake Shelton – Body Laguage

Jesse Keith Whitley – Breakin’ Ground

Dillon Carmichael – Hot Beer EP

The Steel Woods – All Of Your Stones

Emma Moore – the table EP

Thomas Rhett – Country Again: Side A

Priscilla Block – Priscilla Block EP

Elvie Shane – County Roads EP

Eric Church – Soul

Eric Church – &

Eric Church – Heart

Brett Kissel – What Is Life?

Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Dance Songs For The Hard Times

Jon Randall – Neon Texas EP

Canaan Smith – High Country Sound

Tyler Braden – What Do They Know EP

Kaylee Bell – The Red EP (EP)

Hayden Joseph – Different

Willie Nelson – That’s Life

Carly Pearce – 29 EP

Lainey Wilson – Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’

Tobacco Rd Band – Worth Fighting For

Jake Hoot – Love Out Of Time EP

Jimmy Weber – Black & Blue Heart

Willie Jones – Right Now

Chelsea Berman – Can You Just Not EP

Petric – Flashbacks

Aaron Watson – American Soul

Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T.

Cody Weaver – Southern Noise EP

Russell Dickerson – Southern Symphony

Ward Davis – Black Cats and Crows

Kameron Marlowe – EP

Chris Stapleton – Starting Over

Mira Goto – Nobody Warned Me EP

Trace Adkins – Ain’t That Kind Of Cowboy EP

Jason Nix – Money on You EP

Dolly Parton – A Holly Dolly Christmas

Terri Clark – It’s Christmas … Cheers!

Van de Forst – Unconditional

Hardy – A Rock

Lauren Alaina – Getting Over Him EP

Tennessee Jet – The Country

Josh Turner – Country State of Mind

Lindsay Ell – Heart Theory

Lori McKenna – The Balladeer

Olivia Lane – “Living Instead” Podcast about Artists’ Life and More

Jonny Houlihan – Hey Girl EP

Eric Paslay – Heartbeat Higher EP

Kyle Nix – Lightning On The Mountain & Other Little Stories

Gabby Barrett – Goldmine

Kip Moore – Wild World

Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross

Florida Georgia Line – 6-Pack EP

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia

Travis Denning – Beer’s Better Cold EP

Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen – Hold My Beer, Vol. 2

Kenny Chesney – Here and Now

Hot Country Knights – The K Is Silent

Tim Dugger – Signs Of A Good Time EP

Drake White – Stars EP

The Washboard Union – Everbound

Twinnie – Hollywood Gypsy

Julia Cole – Honey Child EP

Maddie & Tae – The Way It Feels

Sykamore – California King EP

Ashley McBryde – Never Will

Brett James – I am Now EP

Delta Rae – The Light

Kelsea Ballerini – Kelsea

The Shires – Good Years

Lauren Alaina – Getting Good EP

The Cumberland River Project – The Cumberland River Project (Album Review)

Carly Pearce – Carly Pearce

The Cadillac Three – Country Fuzz

Richard Marx – Limitless

Celeste Kellogg – Keep It On Repeat EP

Redeye Caravan – Nostrum Remedium

Cody Hibbard – Memory and A Dirt Road

Little Big Town – Nightfall

Dustin Lynch – Tullahoma

Pete Wolf Band – 2084 (Album Review)

Cassadee Pope – Stages (with Track by Track Commentary)

Björn Heuser – Kopp voll Dräum (Nashville Recordings)

Luke Combs – What You See Is What You Get (Review)

Luke Combs – This One’s For You – The Record-Breaking Album

Miranda Lambert – Wildcard

Jon Langston – Now You Know EP

Old Dominion (Album Review)

Sylvia Aimee – Superhero EP

Chris Janson – Real Friends

Chris Knight – Almost Daylight

Brantley Gilbert – Fire & Brimstone

Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury

Sheryl Crow – Threads

Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’

Tyler Childers – Country Squire

Willie Nelson – Ride Me Back Home

Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars

Lauren Jenkins – No Saint (Album Review)
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