PRISCILLA BLOCK - Hey, Jack - Mercury Nashville

Priscilla Block has consistently remained one of the brightest young talents on the music scene since first breaking onto country radio in 2020 with her smash hit “Just About Over You.”

She’s balanced her massive hits, “My Bar” and her first #1 with Justin Moore, “You, Me, And Whiskey,” against highly regarded fan favorites “Me Pt. 2,” “Off the Deep End,” and “Fake Names,” continually elevating her status each time out while making herself an endearing household name that walks the perfect line between fun and sassy with deep and retrospective.

Coinciding with the announcement of her 2024 headlining tour of the same as the song, she now delivers the very highly anticipated, “Hey, Jack.”

Written by Block, Randy Montana, Jeremy Stover, and Dave Cohen, the song sees the superstar swerving away from the natural party anthems to embrace her moodier, vibey side through a mid-tempo flare that cleverly juxtapositions comparative lyrics of taking your newly broken heart out to meet someone new who’ll help you get over him with the strikingly similar effects that a night cuddled up with Old No. 7 can have on you.

Painting a photographic visual of how she looks for her big return night to the bar in her brokenhearted aftermath, she sings through the opening verse of wearing her boots, cut off jean shorts, press-on nails, and a newly done dye job to her hair that’s covered the roots.

However, as much as she leads the listener to imagine that she’s dressed to charm someone new, she intriguingly shifts away from that predictable direction to apologize to the champagne she won’t be drinking since there’s nothing to celebrate as she strikes the amber-infused chorus in a one-on-one conversation with the favorited, top-shelf Tennessee Whiskey:

“Hey Jack whatcha doing tonight

I got a lot of done wrongs that need done right

There’s a guy that I’m missing

And I’m on a mission

To make a couple feel good bad decisions

Hey jack like electric wire

Set a Carolina heart on Tennessee fire

Til the midnight morning comes

Yeah, you do you and let the night do what it does

Let the night do what it does”

Continuing through the second half of the song with ultra-clever lyrics that perfectly describe the wants from the Jack Daniels that she’s throwing back as she drinks away the memory of what used to be, she asks the whiskey glass in front of her to stay full and hold her ransom until last call pulls them apart, while revealing the true depth for her night out when she boldly stamps, “let's make that boy say, "Damn, I miss her."

As much as this darker toned moodiness is a recently familiar space to Block as she comes of a similar vibe on “You, Me,” And Whiskey,” it also allows plenty of room for her to delve into a bit of a new flavoring as she opens this exciting next chapter by raising her versatility to the forefront in an unapologetic showcase that sees her pushing her boundaries to their very edge, utilizing the softness of her voice to fully encompass the hurt, pain, and broken hearted cry of the incredibly written lyric.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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