CHARLIE BERRY

                                                                "It's Still Here"

                                                                Independent Release

When an artist has experienced the performance side of the entertainment industry from all its many different angels, they already have a leg up on how to best approach reaching an audience with the type of songs that will resonate with them while still being able to navigate their own unique path to carve out a specific niche.

Charlie Berry is one of those artists.

Whether he assumed the role of a background vocalist, songwriter, producer, or band member in his former band Mockingbird Sun, Berry’s resume contains a little piece of everything, including his current role as a solo artist.

Taking the next step ahead on that solo artist path, Berry now follows his last single “Be Somebody” with the mid-tempo driven, nostalgic dripping single “It’s Still Here.”

Playing off the idea that “you can’t go back, but you can always go home,” Berry takes us on a reflective journey to his hometown where he sees very specific things that are still there, reminiscing on moments that shaped his life as the memories when seeing them come racing back; including when he ran a stop sign and wrecked his car, the rock-n-roll club where his first band got their start, and the Texaco gas station where his fake ID bought him Skoal and cheap beer.

However, as much as all these memories come back to him, there’s a clear focus on the one that got away as the entire second verse sings of the spots that remind him of them and their former relationship:

“That spot I picked you up when you’d sneak out on Friday nights

That overlook down by the lake we’d go and cut the headlights

We had our first kiss and our first fight

That front porch where you were standing when I drove away

I thought that memory would have left me as I watched you fade

In my rearview mirror.”

What makes “It’s Still Here” such a solid release for Charlie Berry is its ability to hit the listener’s heart and bring out their own personal memories as they listen. We all have moments that we move on from, and oftentimes bury when we leave our hometown behind, but all it takes is one trip back home and they all come rushing right back to the forefront like it was yesterday. That strong connection factor is the ingredient that Berry leans into as he turns the page and opens the next chapter of his budding solo career. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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