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                                                                      CHRIS YOUNG

                                                                      FT. JIMMIE ALLEN

                                                                "Music Note" 

                                                                RCA Records Nashville

 

 

  

If Chris Young’s Famous Friends album showed us one thing, it’s that when he finds the perfect partner for a collaboration, its result is solid gold! What first started when he teamed up with Cassadee Pope and they took “Think Of You” to the #1 position back in 2016, has continued to be highlighted with Kane Brown on “Famous Friends” (another #1) and with Mitchell Tenpenny on “At The End of the Bar,” which is currently sitting in the Top 20.

Ahead of the release of his deluxe version of his Famous Friends album, Young has teased the new material on this packaging with his collaboration with Old Dominion, “Everybody Needs a Song,” and most recently with “Music Note,” which features Jimmie Allen.

The modern waltz tempo wrapped into the melody allows the instrumentation to perfectly carry you through several different peaks and valleys as each line of notes dips low before kicking back up.

Vocally, Young and Allen are two of the best male voices in country music today, and this performance is a perfect example of why.

Looking back on a specific moment that shaped who’s he become today, Chris opens the song by painting the picture through the first verse of when he was younger and he and his granddaddy would go for a ride in his truck, singing “Deeper Than the Hollar” while he was encouraged by his elder to keep on singing that song!

In similar fashion, Allen then tackles the second verse with a showcase of gratitude and inspired blessings as he brings us more into the here and now with awe and wonder as he sings of his Opry debut and his disbelief that he actually made it to the same stage as Loretta, Cash, and Charley Pride.

But ultimately, it’s in the bridge that the entire message of the song comes to fruition:

“So, this song’s a way for me to shake everybody’s hand

Thanks for giving this Tennessee boy a chance!”

With that one specific line, this song then cleverly converts itself to play out more like a letter to anyone and everyone who has supported their music dream – those who were there for them from early on, all the way up to you, the person who is listening today!

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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