HUNTERGIRL

                                                 "Hometown Out Of Me"

                                                 19 Recordings/BMG

It’s been about 6 months since she was the runner-up on this past season of American Idol, but HunterGirl has certainly not slowed down since the show ended. She’s been on the road with Justin Moore and Tracy Lawrence, kicks off a co-headlining tour with American Idol winner Noah Thompson next week (Oct 27^th), signed a major record deal, and has now released her label debut with “Hometown Out Of Me.”

Inspired by her first trip back home to Winchester, TN, and seeing the incredible hometown support that she was receiving while on the show, her very next songwriting session in Nashville resulted in this thank you letter that talks about what her hometown means to her, but more so, speaks directly to how it shaped her into the person she’s become today.

With a singer-songwriter vibe to its instrumentation, the perfect amount of accompaniment is injected to uphold the feeling of the lyrics, but skillfully leaves all the room for HunterGirl to place her vocals in the spotlight.

Co-written by HunterGirl, Laura Veltz, and Jimmy Robbins (who also produced the song), the basis of the lyric plays off the adage that you can take the girl out of her hometown, but you can’t take the hometown out of the girl; or as brilliantly written in the case of this lyric – “An apples’ still an apple, when it’s nowhere near the tree.”

Following her story that broadcasted to millions of homes, the opening verse sees HunterGirl’s adventurous spirit gleaming through her desire to explore the bigger world outside of Small Town, USA as she sings that county lines weren’t going to stop her, that wings were made for open air, and that there’s not a map dot that she doesn’t want to see.

But no matter how far one may roam….The chorus and second verse candidly shares who she still is and will always be, but also what her hometown means to her and why she’s proud to call it home:

“I’m never gonna not think heavens at the end of daddy’s little gravel road”

“I’m never not gonna not be the same ‘ol same me” 

“A thousand people know my heart and they love me just the same; If this world does or doesn’t know my name.”

The bridge then cleverly opens like a photo album to her youth when she shares, “I’m still the kid down at grandpa’s creek,” reiterating that no matter where she goes - big city or not - she’s still that same small town girl with her hometown living inside of her, and perhaps just as important, nostalgically connecting the listener with who she is as both an artist and as a person to give her instant connectibility right out of the gate with her first release.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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