DAN DAVIDSON

                                                              "He Met a Girl" 

                                                              RTC Records

Since 2014, former Tupelo Honey frontman Dan Davidson has been carving his place in the country music genre, boldly stamping his resume with a list of accomplishments that already includes 7 CCMA nominations, 10 ACMA awards, a platinum certified record, and more!

Following his very well-received, spring release “If These Streets Could Talk,” the Canadian country artist now gives us his brand-new single, “He Met a Girl.”

Co-written by Davidson, David Borys, and Aaron Allen, the addictively catchy melody builds momentum through the verses, leaning on a modern kissed pop country flavor while lyrically embracing the country music ideals of telling a story from start to finish.

Using picture painting descriptives to first describe the leading male character, we’re taken straight back to his coming of age, teenage years when we learn that at 16 years old, he was a little more rock-n-roll and guitars and gasoline…of course, as the song title suggests, that is until he met a girl!

Davidson foreshadows the chorus when he sings of the first glimpse that he caught of her, “there she was just a little bit of heaven,” before then taking us into the euphoric moments of how she changed everything in his life simply by being in it:

“He met a girl

She makes the grass look greener

She makes the sweet tea sweeter

Yeah, he can’t stop grinning

Cause she’s spinning his whole world

Feels a little like forever

It don’t get much better

Ain’t nothin’ gonna  be the same

Cause he met a girl”

Like most young relationships, the second verse tackles the breaking up and moving on that arrives with chasing after big-time dreams, which as this story goes – like so many do in real life –  often leads straight to the one who changes your forever when you meet them right where your path has led you to be.

What’s so crafty about this lyric, though, is that while Davidson could’ve just left it as it was and it would be a fine storyteller of a song, he instead, expertly ties this together in the bridge and final chorus when he advances the story to them being married, having a baby girl, and his daughter becoming the girl he met who actually changed everything in his life.

It’s easy to see why Dan Davidson has been able to continually navigate an otherwise highly contended country music scene to become one of the most dependable indie artists on the circuit today. His abilities to craft an ultra-modern song while pulling from the roots of the genre lyrically, present an appreciative nod to the past while staying firmly planted on the present, endearingly capturing the listener to keep them invested in each twist of the melody and turn of the phrase.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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