JAMEY D

                                                            "Night Like This" 

                                                             CCB Nashville

CCB Nashville continues their bold quest of releasing a song from their incredibly talented artist roster every Friday throughout 2022 as part of their #newmusicfriday initiative, this week with the brand-new tune from Jamey D, “Night Like This.”

Jamey has really become the sleeper artists for the label over the first half of the year. Though many people who have seen the Cash Creek Club Live! shows recognized his ability to sing and craft a great song, I don’t quite think anyone knew to expect strong song after strong song from him each time out.

As we said in one of our other reviews on a CCB release, it often feels like there is a friendly competition within their roster to one up each other (in a sense). With label mate RT Johnson kicking off the summertime, lake infused party with his redneck anthem “H.R.S.R.C.C.,” Jamey D now nostalgically takes us back to the summers when everything seemed simple, and life was so so good.

Painting the perfect pictures of an old-school county fair, the mid-tempo kiss of the instrumentation allows Jamey D to really utilize his gravel tilted vocal in such an innocent way that he makes us feel like we’re flipping through our old Polaroids as he hits on all the feels of our yesteryear.

He sings of honoring our military veterans who walk by adorned with their medals on their way to hand out ribbons to that year’s county’s best.

He sings of the teenage boys flirting with the hometown, country cuties.

He mentions the band playing the headlining show as being the place to be, where everyone will.

However, it’s when he sings the hook of the song, “It’ll be next summer ‘til there’s another night like this,” that Jamey D hits the heart in all the right emotional ways.

There’s a meme that goes around from time to time that says, “At some point in your childhood, your friends went outside to play together for the last time, and nobody knew it!” This hook line hits in the very same way for me.

On the one hand, Jamey D is optimistically saying be here now for what’s happening today because this kind of night won’t come around again until next summer. But on the other hand, in an even deeper way, perhaps Jamey D is saying live in this moment, right here and right now, because you may never get it again.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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