SWEET TEA TRIO

                                                              "All Hat No Cattle" 

                                                              Top Dog Records

With their last couple singles, “Love, Mama” and the summery infused “SPF50,” Alabama’s Sweet Tea Trio – made up of Victoria Camp, Kate Falcon, and Charity Bowden – unapologetically stamped down their mark on country music as they introduced us to their signature harmonies, crisp songwriting, and perfect blending of fresh, modern country with just the right splashes of 90’s country influence to give them a flare to call their own.

They now return with “All Hat, No Cattle,” the third song released from their most current EP, Sugar Rush.

The trio taps into their Southern girl, country charmed attitude as they take aim at a city boy poser who is claiming to be “country” while he’s trying to come on to one of them, immediately calling him out as a dime store cowboy and asking, “why you making eyes at me?” setting the tone as the song opens.

Assuredly seeing straight through his facade, they describe the guy in question throughout the verses as the type who has never hauled a hay bale, is awkwardly out of his comfort zone in the boots he’s wearing, has a truck that’s way too clean, etc.

However, the song really takes shape when the script gets flipped on him and she tells him exactly who she is when he says he wants to pour her something strong and she responds with “I’m a honky tonk girl from the hillbilly world…Buddy I can buy my own!” leading to the rip roaring chorus that immediately gets your boot heels clickin’ on the hardwood, honky-tonk dance floor as she puts him in his place:

“You’re all hat and no cattle

You’re no horse and all saddle

You know holey jeans and tattered seems

Are only half the battle

Cause you’re all hat and no cattle”

With very smart production that elevates their harmonies at all the right times, “All Hat, No Cattle” further defines the signature aspect that makes Sweet Tea Trio stand out so strongly amongst the pack. Combine that with their bold 90’s country infused rhythms and melodies and we’re refreshingly taken back to when a Friday night meant getting down to the local honky-tonk for a rousing night of line dancing with your best friends.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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