Single Review - House On The Hill - Kezia Gill

 

 

After many years in the business, awards, hit records and her position within UK Country music you might think that Kezia Gill can relax and take things easy, but what she actually does is keep on growing and developing into an even better version of herself.  However success can be measured – appearances at Country 2 Country, a sold out headline tour, a show on Radio 2 – there is still more out there for Kezia, and it is all certainly well deserved.

 

With her latest single release – House On The Hill – Kezia acknowledges many of the things that she has achieved -  travelling the world, seeing amazing sights, but at heart she is still a hometown girl.  This who know her personally know that the hometown is Derby and her anchor is husband Lloyd.  If you don’t know her personally, the song actually spells it out for you.  The House On The Hill in the title is literally the home she shares with Lloyd nestled on a hilltop in Derby.  Throughout lockdown, Kezia (and Lloyd) regularly live-streamed from the living room, often in her fluffy slippers, showing that even when performing, home is where she feels most comfortable.  Even if you’ve never seen it you can start to picture it, not just physically but as a safe haven, a place to come back to as an escape from the hectic world of music and growing success.  Even those of us who aren’t rising through the ranks of Country music can identify with having our own space to go back to, our very own House On The Hill.

 

The song itself shows how much Kezia is constantly growing.  If you take a walk through her back catalogue you will hear her very distinctive style and her UK take on the Country music tradition, with this and some of her more recent music you can hear how she is embracing the Nashville sound that is so popular in the UK but still very definitely making it her own, still keeping it UK and keeping it Kezia Gill

Guitar driven, the track effortlessly combines the energy that you see on stage with the song-writing and vocal that Kezia is known for. 

Written for the sheer joy of it, and incorporating some real honesty, House On The Hill is sure to be a live favourite as we head into the festival season.

 

House On The Hill, the new single from Kezia Gill is available from Friday 31 March.

 You can find and follow Kezia on Instagram and Facebook and stream her music on Spotify

Kezia Gill is represented by ZimagineD

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Single Review - Weight Of My Sins - Scott Ashworth

 

Scottish based singer songwriter Scott Ashworth has been busy recording his debut album, and he has also been busy doing some reflecting. One song didn’t quite fit the album, so Scott has decided to release it as a standalone single, fittingly on the 13^th anniversary of an important change that he made in his own life.

Written from the point of view of a man looking back at his (mostly poor) decisions Weight Of My Sins is about the storyteller choosing a path and facing up to his previous choices.

The song is very much in the traditional Country style and has you hanging on to see what the outcome is.  For both musical style and narrative, think “Ode To Billie Joe” but with a with a strong guitar line provided by Barry Frame all the way through.  Lyrically, the imagery is spot on, the lessons are there albeit subtly rather than preaching and some of the lines are frankly superb.  Squeezing in a comparison between a chapel with its welcoming sign and a dive bar whose sign instead reads

fifty types of whisky and beer

Its not a foot stomping song, but like a good book you will find yourself invested in finding out what happens to our “hero” as he struggles with the devil and the angel whispering in his ear.

If you want to know what happens, whether he chooses to

be the man I could be or the man I’ve been for years

you’ll have to download or stream the song!

Well written, with a story and a message wrapped up in a guitar led song, Weight Of My Sins is everything a country song should be!  We can’t wait to hear what the album – Ghosts and Broken Men – will deliver.

 

Weight of My Sins, the new single from Scott Ashworth is released on 27 March. 

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