DANIELLE BRADBERY

                                                            "Stop Draggin' Your Boots" 

                                                            Big Machine Label Group

Since be named the winner on Season 4 of The Voice, Danielle Bradbery has kept up a consistent climb with all of her releases, which have included three trips to the Country Top 40 with “The Heart of Dixie,” “Sway,” and “Goodbye Summer” – the latter which featured Thomas Rhett.

However, as much success as she has already found, Bradbery has reached a point in her career where she is redefining herself as an artist and opening a chapter that sees her telling personal stories through songs such as “Never Have I Ever” and “Girls In My Hometown.” She continues doing this with her newest single “Stop Draggin’ Your Boots.”

The catchy, mid-tempo shuffle, written by Josh Kear, Hillary Lindsey, and Gordie Sampson, allows Bradbery to unravel an anthem that takes us right into the frustration that comes when you reach a point with the person your “seeing” where they either need to commit or not, but either way you’re ready for them to make a decision about it so that you can go forward down either path.

The simplicity of lines such as “you say you want me and then you don’t” and “sometimes you’re in sometimes you’re out,” will grab the casual listeners ear and instantly be relatable to anyone who knows this feeling. However, the songwriter heart beats with the more descriptive lines that describe the same feeling; “one day your whiskey hot and then your beer cold,” and also again in the second verse when she sings of her mama’s advice that there’s plenty more fish in the sea, and then shows how mama has compared what to do with him to catch-and-release fishing when she sings, “Cut em loose, throw em back, if they play with your heart.”

This is all designed, however, to pull you to the chorus where Bradbery stamps down her foot and says enough is enough:

“You ain’t gonna crash your party here no more.

You better get to walkin’ if you don’t want what you got.

Either love me or not, just stop draggin’ your boots.”

This pop-country titled anthem carries a vibe that instantly has you recalling the girl power of 90’s country music, but it is very clever in its approach to never sound out of touch, while absolutely carrying a different feel than everything else on radio right now which is exactly why this should give Bradbery her next Top 40.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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