Aaron Watson - American Soul

4.4

Rating

4.4/5

Flyctory.com Pros

Very good lyrics / stories
Nice and catchy melodies
Hardly any weak track

Aaron Watson feels like the protagonist of a tobacco advertising campaign, like a dressman for American cowboy fashion – or simply as you would imagine a Texas country music artist. Watson is a quite established name in the business, indeed: since 1999, he is regularly releasing albums and grew his fan base steadily. On 8th January 2021, he released his latest album, American Soul. A review.

Aaron Watson – About The Artist

James Aaron Watson is a Texas country singer-songwriter, who was born on 20th August 1977 in Amarillo. At the age of 22, he released his first album Aaron Watson – Singers and Songwriters. His third album shutupanddance (2002) was the first one which got some national attention. Four years later, San Angelo was the first album chart placement for the artist. Since then, he was growing his popularity steadily, peaking in the mid-2010’s: his 2015 The Underdog even topped the US Country Charts, the following one, Vaquero, still made it second. The latter album also featured his biggest single hit, Outta Style, which made it to the Top 10 of the US Country Airplays. After a live and a Christmas album, he released his latest album, Red Bandana, in June 2019. The album peaked on the seventh spot of the US Country album charts. American Soul is Watson’s thirteenth studio album.

Aaron Watson – American Soul – Track by Track

The ten track album lasts 31 minutes.

1. Silverado Saturday Night

So baby climb on up and slide on in
High as a kite, feeling free as the wind
Find that buckle next to me in the middle
You can grind my gears but don’t you play me like a fiddle
We can tie one on and come unwound
Turn up the heat when the sun goes down
No, they don’t call it a truck bed for nothing, yeah, you know that’s right
Nothing’s better than a Silverado Saturday night

The first track on the album already feels welcoming, cozy: straight country music with a bit of a traditional touch – but also very speedy – the Silverado Saturday Night definitely feels like a hard hat and a party!

2. Boots

And I can’t keep my boots on the ground – the second track Boots is definitely bit of slower and has a big touch of romance in it. Again, I feel that Aaron Watson is creating a lovely sound, which makes you move. Sounds good!

3. Whisper My Name

You fire that engine up, feel that four on the floor
Your hands inside my shirt, feet up on the dashboard
I’m still your wildest side and, baby, you’re my wildest dream
Take you out and take you home, make a move and make you scream
When you whisper my name

Cool chorus! Apart from that, I really like that track again as well – not too surprisng Aaron Watson used it as a single beforehand. Really catching, straight country, with a modern, but also individual touch. Great writing!

4. Best Friend

Shall I spoil who the Best Friend in this song is? I decided not to do – and just recommend to listen to the song by yourself. A beautiful country ballad.

5. Long Live Cowboys

When I stated that Aaron Watson just looks like a prototype of a US cowboy (at least Europeanized perspective), it is not too surprising that he hopes for Long Live Cowboys. The song might be a bit too much on the heroic side – but finally, when you listen to it while driving through Texas on the Interstate, I am sure you will happily use the steering wheel or dashboard to clap a happy rhythm to it. Good song!

6. Stay

You make me wanna stay is the final verse of the chorus – and Stay is indeed a song which made me smile. One reason is the lovely, somehow stereotyped comparisons and pictures used in this song.

Like old Willie’s guitar, like a neon Lonestar
Just like all my drifting honky tonkin’ friends
Rolling from town to town, we throw it up, we tear it down
Back on the road again by 2am
All those last call late nights, no shows and bar fights
I need you like a tonic to my bottle of gin
You always take my empty cup then you fill it back up
You take my heart and top it off again

Don’t get me wrong – I feel it is really cool 🙂

7. American Soul

The title track of the album is one of these very characteristic US-praising songs at first sight – but it is also encouraging people to value the US values and to work and fight for them. Thus, it just does not feel that pathetic to me.

8. Out Of My Misery

Before you leave me drink all my wine, come steal my covers one last time
Won’t you stay, put me out of my misery
Come wreck my bed and hold me tight, break my heart come morning light
Just give me one more night, tonight have mercy on me
Put me out of my misery

This very fluent and melodic song even gave me some memories of the 1980’s era. It is a beautiful song – one, which I could by the way very well imagine in German mainstream radio as well. Beautiful chorus.

9. Touchdown Town

There just needs to be a song about American Football when you publish an album called American Soul, doesn’t it? I like the way how Watson is describing the emotions around the match event. Nice one.

10. Dog Tags

My heroes wear dog tags – the album closes with a praise to the US troops and their role preserving freedom. I typically simply do not refer that much to these kind of songs, but I really enjoy the way Watson is doing it – and finishes his American Soul in style.

Aaron Watson – American Soul – Spotify

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Aaron Watson – American Soul – My View

When I listened to American Soul the first time, I felt it was rather average – but the more often and the deeper I listen to Aaron Watson songs, the more I recognized that I will have to go for the higher ratings. Finally, after completing my review, I am in the Top Pick! zone. The songs are telling great songs, using a very good and clear (but still picturesque) language and the melodies are good. Did I miss any ingredients to make a good song? Don’t think so. If you pass all exams with a good mark, your final report is simply a good one: very well done, Mr Watson!

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Without a doubt, Peter Maffay is nowadays one of the most well-known rock artists singing in German. As a result ...

Riddy Arman – Riddy Arman

Debut album by Riddy Arman: the young female country music artists gets into the virtual record stores with a nine ...

Ashland Craft – Travelin’ Kind

Debut album by Ashland craft: after the female country singer grew quite a fan base by a strong TV talent ...

Jayne Denham – Wanted

Fifth album release by Jayne Denham: the Australian country artist is Wanted according to her 13th August 2021 release. I just ran ...

Clare Dunn – In This Kind Of Light EP

Clare Dunn is quite a well known act (and very popular show opener) in the Nashville music scene. On 13th ...

Chris Young – Famous Friends

It is over two years ago since Chris Young released the first single for his new album. Now, on 6th ...

Laci Kaye Booth – Laci Kaye Booth

One album out of the 6th August 2021 releases I was looking forward listening to especially was the self-titled one ...

Jim Lauderdale – Hope

About a year ago, I praised Jim Lauderdale for his 33rd studio album, When Carolina Comes Home Again. You can't name ...

Ryan Kinder – Room To Dream

New music by Ryan Kinder: I have really been curious about Room To Dream, the new long-play release by the ...

Clay Walker – Texas To Tennessee

Clay Walker definitely knows how the country music business is working. The 51 year-old Texas origin artist is active since ...

Los Lobos – Native Sons

Honestly, when I received the 2021 album Native Sons of a band called Los Lobos, I thought about a funny ...

Jolina Carl – Mexican Overdrive

Some country from Germany: just in the week I did the second edition of my German Songs Country Music Picks, ...

Lauren Jenkins – Miles On Me, Part 1 EP

I have been that excited that when Lauren Jenkins announced that there will be the first part of her new ...

The Wallflowers – Exit Wounds

During the last weeks, I had a couple of bands and acts who released a new album after some decade ...

LANCO – Honky-Tonk Hippies EP

Some very special experience: while US country artists typically make me struggle by releasing (almost) all tracks of an EP ...

Riley Green – Behind The Bar EP

I really enjoyed Riley Green's 2019 album Different 'Round Here, while I reviewed it in September 2019. The more I ...

Gary Allan – Ruthless

I am tempted to say that Ruthless is just the tenth studio album by Gary Allan. The legendary country music ...

Meghan Patrick – Heart On My Glass

Quite a while since Meghan Patrick was part of my Flyctory.com coverage. In September 2019, I reviewed her EP debut Wild ...

pez – All Lowercase EP

Modern country from Bavaria? No, this is not about Nik Wallner, but about pez, who is singing in English and ...

Kylie Morgan – Love, Kylie EP

I enjoyed Kylie Morgan's single I Only Date Cowboys that much that I added it to the Country Music Playlists on ...

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

The Nelson family is definitely one of the most creative - and productive - families in the country genre. Despite ...

Black River Delta – Shakin’

The Swedish band Black River Delta is doing a very interesting mix of genres between rock and blues. They already ...

Blackberry Smoke – You Hear Georgia

Blackberry Smoke do a mixture of country music and Southern rock. They gained quite some popularity in the USA, but ...

Blake Shelton – Body Laguage

Nine-time Grammy nominee, being in the jury at the US-American The Voice TV talent show since the beginning and winning eight ...

Jesse Keith Whitley – Breakin’ Ground

Country to The Core with Rock'n'Roll's rebellious reputation or Jesse Keith Whitley is a modern day outlaw. The first words ...

Dillon Carmichael – Hot Beer EP

After two successful singles, which both had several million streams on Spotify only, Dillon Carmichael is back his first ever ...

The Steel Woods – All Of Your Stones

I am not a musician, but I guess releasing a new album is one of these big moment in a ...

Emma Moore – the table EP

Emma Moore is indeed a really remarkable British artist. I really enjoy how she is blending country music with her ...

Thomas Rhett – Country Again: Side A

New songs by Thomas Rhett - some two years after his Center Point Road, the Georgia artist is back with ...

Priscilla Block – Priscilla Block EP

Priscilla Block is an artist, which grew on social media. Within a remarkably short time, TikTok made her record a ...

Elvie Shane – County Roads EP

A new artist with a quite powerful touch of country music - Elvie Shane with his EP County Roads made ...

Eric Church – Soul

The final straight of Eric Church's April 2021 album trio. After Heart and & (or: and), the third and final album will be ...

Eric Church – &

The second part of Eric Church's Heart & Soul trilogy was likely the most fascinating one to me before I started listening ...

Eric Church – Heart

One week - three albums: Just two weaks after the Easter bunny gave us a bunch of lovely Easter eggs ...

Brett Kissel – What Is Life?

Some fifteen months after his previous album, Now or Never, Brett Kissel is back on Flyctory.com with an album. On ...

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

Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band is in fact neither too big (it is a trio) nor too damn. The band ...

Jon Randall – Neon Texas EP

Jon Randall was already a country music legend while I have still been at school. For his performance with Emilylou ...

Canaan Smith – High Country Sound

Canaan Smith felt to become quite a big name in the country music business when he was on top of ...

Tyler Braden – What Do They Know EP

If you released two songs, which exceed ten million Spotify streams each, you are definitely in the music business. Not ...

Kaylee Bell – The Red EP (EP)

I really loved listening to Kaylee Bell's music, when I ran into her performances at the 2019 Country to Country ...

Hayden Joseph – Different

Spotify is a bit of a strange thing sometimes. The scanner I use every Friday to check out for new ...

Willie Nelson – That’s Life

Album #71 now: less than nine month after Willie Nelson released his last studio album, First Rose of Spring, the country ...

Carly Pearce – 29 EP

Carly Pearce is one of my absolute favorite country music artists. No doubt that the Kentucky lady was on the ...

Lainey Wilson – Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’

Her powerful songs - and maybe also her strong Southern accent as a signature element - boosted Lainey Wilson's music ...

Tobacco Rd Band – Worth Fighting For

The Tobacco Rd Band are known for their powerful country rock sound and inspiring love songs. On 12th February 2021, ...

Jake Hoot – Love Out Of Time EP

While many talent show candidates rather have a tough time in the "real world" in Germany, the US show winners ...

Jimmy Weber – Black & Blue Heart

Black & Blue Heart by Jimmy Weber is another country music album release I just ran into while I scanned ...

Willie Jones – Right Now

It is almost nine years ago, since Willie Jones stood in front of the The X Factor jury to persuade them ...

Chelsea Berman – Can You Just Not EP

Chelsea Berman is an Australian artist I ran into during 2020. I really enjoyed listening to her singles that year ...

Petric – Flashbacks

Just a week before Petric released their album Flashbacks on 15th January 2021, I ran into their single Kids and really ...

Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T.

Steve Earle is indeed a productive musical artist: just some eight months after his amazing concept album Ghosts of West Virginia, ...

Cody Weaver – Southern Noise EP

The number of new releases, especially in regards of EPs and albums, is definitely decreasing in December. There are still ...

Russell Dickerson – Southern Symphony

With his debut album Yours and the corresponding single, Russell Dickerson won the hearts of country music fans worldwide. The more, ...

Granger Smith – Country Things, Vol. 2

Here we go again - after Granger Smith released the first part of his Country Things album in September 2020, the ...

Ward Davis – Black Cats and Crows

Ward Davis is a great name in the Nashville songwriting scene. Since five years, he is regularly publishing solo music ...

Kameron Marlowe – EP

Kameron Marlowe indeed made best use of the publicity he gained by participating in The Voice: his debut single, Giving You Up ...

Chris Stapleton – Starting Over

It is hard to believe that Chris Stapleton's 13th November 2020 release Starting Over is indeed his fourth studio album ...

Mira Goto – Nobody Warned Me EP

I like the way Mira Goto describes her business on her Facebook page: I write songs, and then I sing them ...

Trace Adkins – Ain’t That Kind Of Cowboy EP

If you had your first number one hit 23 years ago and are still regularly producing, you definitely proofed to ...

Jason Nix – Money on You EP

Running into Money on You, the debut EP by Jason Nix, was the story which happens about every Friday to me: ...

Dolly Parton – A Holly Dolly Christmas

It's Christmas time... and while the classic Do They Know it's Christmas? continues with and there's no need to be ...

Terri Clark – It’s Christmas … Cheers!

Don't you feel the urge as well to talk about trees, angels, presents and Santa Clause? While I had four ...

Van de Forst – Unconditional

Undoubtedly, Van de Forst is one of the most interesting German acts in the country music scene. Her country / ...

Hardy – A Rock

Hardy is quite well-known in the country music scene as a songwriter. Florida Georgia Line, Chris Lane or Morgan Wallen ...

Lauren Alaina – Getting Over Him EP

Already the second EP of the year - while Lauren Alaina gave us her Getting Good in March 2020, she is ...

Tennessee Jet – The Country

Tennesse Jet is a quite amazing act in the country music scene. He is producing very rocking, powerful, but also ...

Josh Turner – Country State of Mind

Josh Turner is very successful on the country music side as well as an artist for Christian music. Country State ...

Lindsay Ell – Heart Theory

Lindsay Ell is definitely one of the finest Canadian artists in the country music scene. After releasing some of the ...

Lori McKenna – The Balladeer

Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, ...

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

I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...

Jonny Houlihan – Hey Girl EP

Scanning the list of new country music releases, I ran into Hey Girl by Jonny Houlihan. In fact, the EP has ...

Eric Paslay – Heartbeat Higher EP

Eric Paslay is one of the biggest secret stars of the country music genre to me. A fantastic songwriter, who ...

Kyle Nix – Lightning On The Mountain & Other Little Stories

When you ask for promising new country acts, you very often run into the name of Kyle Nix. However, Nix ...

Gabby Barrett – Goldmine

Gabby Barrett made it well in American Idol and even better with I Hope. The fans were waiting for her debut album, ...

Kip Moore – Wild World

Kip Moore released quite a series of songs during the last months. This was a strong indicator for... a new ...

Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross

Drug abuse, being jailed for robbery - Jaime Wyatt already had quite some negative experience arriving in Nashville as a ...

Florida Georgia Line – 6-Pack EP

5 cans, obviously of different kinds of beer (and the six song titles on it), are on the cover of ...

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia

Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...

Travis Denning – Beer’s Better Cold EP

Despite having some big songs with multi-million streams already, Beer's Better Cold is really of Travis Denning. The Georgia-origin artist released the ...

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

While I ran into similar issues the last weekends already, Friday 8th May 2020 was even special in regards of ...

Kenny Chesney – Here and Now

While quite some major country music artists moved their release dates to (hopefully) better times in the future, Kenny Chesney ...

Hot Country Knights – The K Is Silent

If you already know five out of ten tracks of an album and just feel to deeply miss the other ...

Tim Dugger – Signs Of A Good Time EP

Though he regularly released some songs, the last major recording by Tim Dugger has already been already five years ago ...

Drake White – Stars EP

There are various reasons why I select music for review. I did not have Drake White's EP Stars on my list, ...

The Washboard Union – Everbound

The Canadian West Coast trio The Washboard Union is quite established in the country music scene of their home country. Though ...

Adam Doleac – Famous EP

Famous was a great hit for Adam Doleac, which draw quite a lot of attention on the US country artist. On ...

Twinnie – Hollywood Gypsy

Twinnie's debut album Hollywood Gypsy, which has been released on 17th April 2020, was some sort of highlight of the day ...

Julia Cole – Honey Child EP

I ran into the music of Julia Cole especially when I listened to Honey Child, which is also the title track ...

Maddie & Tae – The Way It Feels

Despite The Way It Feels is only their second album, Maddie & Tae are already very established artists in the country ...

Sykamore – California King EP

Rhett Akins once said about Sykamore "I read her name, I was curious...I saw her face, I was intrigued...I heard ...

Ashley McBryde – Never Will

Ashley McBryde is not just one of the steadily growing brands in the country music industry, she is also having ...

Brett James – I am Now EP

Reading the list of songs written by Brett James is like a Who is Who of the country music business ...

Delta Rae – The Light

After Delta Rae has been quite successful in the beginning of the 2010's, the band has not been too present ...

Kelsea Ballerini – Kelsea

Kelsea Ballerini was one of the first country music artist I feld some sort of fandom for. On 20th March ...

The Shires – Good Years

On 13th March 2020, there was some sort of national holiday for the British country music community: not only that ...

Lauren Alaina – Getting Good EP

Lauren Alaina is one of the countless acts, who made it into the music business by one of the big ...

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

Country music made in Germany? There are more and more projects which feel to be very promising. In my point ...

Carly Pearce – Carly Pearce

In summer 2017, I visited a lovely country festival in Lexington, Kentucky called Red, White & Boom, which had an ...

The Cadillac Three – Country Fuzz

The Cadillac Three are quite popular in Europe as well as in the USA. Not too surprising, the Nashville trio ...

Richard Marx – Limitless

It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...

Celeste Kellogg – Keep It On Repeat EP

Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...

Redeye Caravan – Nostrum Remedium

I typically do not present reviews of albums, which have been released more than two weeks ago. I just had ...

Cody Hibbard – Memory and A Dirt Road

I got quite a lot into the international - and especially the US - country music scene the last years, ...

Little Big Town – Nightfall

When it comes to the best country music vocalists, Little Big Town is always a hot candidate for the title ...

Dustin Lynch – Tullahoma

Two and a half year after Current Mood and the amazing single Seein' Red, Dustin Lynch tried to boost himself back into ...

Pete Wolf Band – 2084 (Album Review)

Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...

Cassadee Pope – Stages (with Track by Track Commentary)

Especially in the winter season, when people are looking for Christmas presents, it is not too unusual that among Greatest Hits ...

Björn Heuser – Kopp voll Dräum (Nashville Recordings)

I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...

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

Just in the week when Luke Combs left his top position in the album charts with This One's For You and ...

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

Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...

Miranda Lambert – Wildcard

Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...

Jon Langston – Now You Know EP

Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...

Old Dominion (Album Review)

Just a few weeks after Old Dominion toured Germany and the rest of Europe, they released a new album. I ...

Sylvia Aimee – Superhero EP

While there is a boom in local modern country music in the United Kingdom, there is still quite some development ...

Chris Janson – Real Friends

The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...

Chris Knight – Almost Daylight

Seven years after his last album, Chris Knight released his new album Almost Daylight. Being successful as a songwriter in parallel, I ...

Brantley Gilbert – Fire & Brimstone

Will Brantley Gilbert do the Billboard-Hattrick after his last two albums topped the US Billboard Charts? I was really looking ...

Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury

If you won a Grammy Award for the Best Country Album of the Year, you are big in the country ...

Sheryl Crow – Threads

Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...

Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’

While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...

Tyler Childers – Country Squire

Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...

Willie Nelson – Ride Me Back Home

June 2019 is Nelson family time: just one week after his son Lukas published the album Turn Off The New ...

Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars

While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...

Thomas Rhett – Center Point Road (Review)

Thomas Rhett, who has become one of Nashville finest artists the last years, released his fourth album Center Point Road on ...

Lauren Jenkins – No Saint (Album Review)

Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...

All “classic” blog posts

No reviews – just debating and certain topics – these are my “traditional” blog posts in the categories Just blogging, Just blogging on music and Sports Blogging: