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                                                                      CURTIS GRIMES

                                                              "Friends" 

                                                               Lonely River

 

 

 

 

With over 40 million streams on Spotify, twelve #1 songs on the Texas Country Music Chart, several awards to his credit, and a Top 10 finish on the 2011 season of The Voice, Curtis Grimes is certainly no stranger to country music fans.

His neo-traditional sound pulls from as much of the current era’s throwback styled artists as it does the past two decades traditional branded country– stating Daryle Singletary as one of his influences, which makes sense seeing as though both recorded stellar versions of “Still A Little Country Left.”

On his latest single, “Friends,” Grimes showcase his incredible ability to utilize his signature assets to perfectly bring you right into the middle of the scene he’s painting as he allows the melody to grip you into the lyrics.

Grimes first describes the small-town as the type with “a church, a flashing light, and a water tower,” before quickly introducing you to all the small-town folks who are out at the hayfield for their weekly get-together.

There’s the farmer’s son who is singing Cash’s “Ring of Fire.”

There are the lovers waiting to hear their special song so they can dance.

There’s the tanned legged beauty, her best friend Julie, and the group of folks who are all just hanging out and shooting the bull.

But it’s the switch that comes in the bridge that takes this song to a new level and changes the entire dynamic of the lyric. You realize then that Grimes is just remembering good times from the past, rather than singing about the here and now, and you begin to understand that this is a song about holding on to the memories that you and your dearest friends make, and to take the time to cherish each of those moments before they pass you by.

“The only thing that stays the same, is all the memories that you’ve made!”

As any great country song should do, “Friends” not only paints a great story about Curtis Grimes and his life, but it does it in such a picture-perfect way that it invokes memories of your own and takes you back in time to relive your own stories.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

 

 

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