MAKENZIE PHIPPS - You Bring the Beer (I'll Bring The Noise) - Independent Release

If you’re looking for the perfect picture of what hard work as an independent artist looks like, then look no further than the blueprint being written by Makenzie Phipps. Building layer upon layer, she’s continued to get stronger with each new release, planted herself in Music City’s vast songwriting community, and has defined her signature characteristics in such a proactive way that she’s become one of the more distinguishable acts on the circuit today by fusing the perfect line between her classic country aura and modern country sensibilities.

Still riding tremendous buzz from her last single “A Litte of Both,” she’s now raising the bar another level with her newest release, “You Bring the Beer (I’ll Bring the Noise.)”

The song, written by her backup singer/guitarist Shane Begley, is a small-town party anthem at its core, leaning into a groove laden melody that immediately has you up and moving through the intro as it gives way to her impeccable vocal.

Taking us to her picturesque hometown of Bluefield, WV, she leans her girl next door vocal into the painted visuals of the place in the mountains that she calls home, speaking of its residents as being the type to get a little rowdy in the evenings and daydreaming of the starlit Appalachian sky while bringing us down the winding and twisting backroads straight out to the holler.

With a fist pumping rhythm through the chorus, she playfully punches the perfect center place between where she comes from and where she’s at right now when she crisply plays off both ends of that spectrum to give us a pure look at exactly who she is:

“I’m from a small town, but I’ve got some city dreams

Making my way ‘round playing on six strings

On these back wood trails and raising hell

Sunday morning Hallelujah’s and livin’ well

I’ve got some big roots with this heart of mine

Walking on blacktop, running on borrowed time

I’m just a country girl out here partying with Southern boys

You bring the beer and I’ll bring the noise”

With a nod to John Denver’s “Country Roads” in the bridge of the song, Makenzie gives a wink of hometown pride to the exclamation point on the idea that you can take the girl out the country but can’t take the country out the girl.

With each of the past few releases, Makenzie Phipps has given us strong autobiographical songs that have not only been catchy to the listening ear but have introduced us to who she is and where comes from, intriguingly leaving the listener yearning for what comes next from one of the rising talents who is absolutely one to be watching.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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