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Rebecca Lindsey - Headlights
On The Highway
By George Peden
 American
newcomer Rebecca Lindsey is out with her debut, Headlights On The
Highway. The early reviews suggest the singer -- she’s had her
music aired on over 1000 global radio stations -- is quickly
claiming both fans and industry interest. It’s plain to see and
hear why. She’s double-take attractive and comes with a voice made
for country.
“I
consider one of my greatest accomplishments,” tells the
entertainer with the envied U-Haul International endorsement, “to
be able to share my music with someone. Being able to touch
someone’s life is more meaningful to me than anything. I know how
much music has inspired and influenced me,” says Lindsey. ”My
dream is to be able to enrich someone else’s life in the same
way.”
With
a voice strong and emotive, honed with a seasoned career of local
gigs clubs and fairs, Lindsay comes up aces on thoughtful cuts like
the radio favorite, “On The 4th Of July” and the
leavin’ loss of “Cry Me A River”. The National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence used another cut, “I Will Be”, as
promotion of their aims to “Keep Every Home A Safe Home”.
Tracks
like the “Cowboys Never Do It That Way”, the energized “While
You Were Sleeping” and the power ballad, Headlights On The
Highway” all offer a versatile showcase for this wings waiting
hopeful.
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Preston Camp Jr. - Anywhere,
Texas
By George Peden
 “And
everybody’s world ain’t sweet red wine and full of laughter and
cheer/some folks drink cheap whiskey most of the time/and drown
their troubles in their beer…”
Preston
Camp Junior: “Everybody’s World Ain’t Sweet Red Wine”.
Preston
Camp Jr. has one of those lived in voices. His vocal range is more
bush than country, more campfire than corporate, his style more
rugged than polished, but as he shows on his debut, Anywhere,
Texas (Red Note Records), he sure can deliver when it comes to
song writing. The album, 10 tracks and all penned by Camp, is a
thoughtful mix of emotion and hard experience. He touches the
frailty and sincerity of life, and he does it convincingly,
melodically, and, with the hallmark of a gifted writer, honestly.
That’s
why here at CSO we welcome and acknowledge Preston Camp Jr. as one
of this month’s Waiting in the Wings inductees.
When
you listen to cuts like the character building and revealing
“Live, Love And Laugh,” a tale of facing adversity with a
positive creed, and the suds-soaked “Everybody’s World Ain’t
Sweet Red Wine,” you realize, and quickly, Junior has keen senses
and a sharp eye. He cuts deep. He’s insightful, focused more on
the happenings that surface just beyond the obvious.
When
he sings the misery–etched “T he Shadows Of The Night”, Junior
taps sometime lyrical truths of the hurt and love wounded. When he
tells, “Lost souls don’t have no place to go…so they look for
somethin’ cold to hold;” it’s a recognized misery that sits
well alongside album standout “Death To The Habit”.
Dark,
cold and biting, the tune cuts into domestic abuse fuelled by too
much drinking, too much fear with too few answers. The desperation
comes laid bare in the lyrics: “She knows where to find his 45/
Tonight she must decide/ To lay it there by her side/ Or once more
just survive.”
Preston
Camp, Jr. (helped along with the clean harmony vocals of Jennifer
Ferren) has turned in a first-up keeper. He’s a lyrical artisan
with the talent to see, feel, and then share.
Impressive.
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