Toby, why don’t you start us off with a little information about Ms. Joe: Anyone that has won 6 Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards in addition to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is certainly worthy of all the accolades that she’s received. I gotta tell you, I’ve been waiting for an excuse to research and learn more about this vocalist for some time. Toby: We are listening to the incomparable vocals of one Miss Etta James and her hit song I’d Rather Go Blind.
Joe: Toby now that we’ve let this smooth track marinate in our eardrums for a bit, why don’t you tell the good people what we are listening to. Toby: Why don’t we hop in the Delorean and see what track was sampled to make this hit? Toby: We are listening to smoky sweet vocals of none other than Chris Stapleton and his hit song Tennessee Whiskey. Joe: Together, we listen to the legendary tracks and the timeless - but sometimes not-so-well-known - songs they sampled from. I’m your host, Joe Watson, and I’m here with my co-host, Toby Brazwell. I’m happy there.Joe: Hello and Welcome to Riffs on Riffs, where we explore the collision of original and sampled tracks and the artists who made them. There’s all kinds of music coming out of Nashville now, and everybody’s trying to move to Nashville. “I feel like there’s a real community there, and I’ve built my team and my family in Nashville. “It’s my favorite city in America,” she said. In April, Linsey told Rolling Stone Country she had no plans to abandon Nashville after The Voice. Linsey’s visit to Music City included a surprise drop-in from longtime supporter Naomi Judd, who predicted, “I just know this girl is going to win The Voice.” Later, during a pop-up show at downtown Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon, Big & Rich joined the former Steel Magnolia singer for a cover of the 1975 rock ballad, “Love Hurts.” “We met over 10 years ago on this stage,” recalled B&R’s Big Kenny. The episode featured hometown visits for each of the five semi-finalists, and two performances from each contestant: The first, a song chosen by their coach the second, a tune chosen by each artist as an ode to the place they call home.
The latter – which closed the show – prompted Shelton to admit to the 16-year-old talent, “Listen man, you’re clearly the frontrunner, and there’s no question in anybody’s mind.” You engaged all the country music fans out there across the country, and you’ve already engaged all the new fans that you’ve made through your journey on the show.”
The result was deliciously retro, evoking images of Etta James in a smoky club somewhere in the South - a reminder that there’s a rich space to inhabit where country collides with R&B.Īfter her performance - which the Louisiana native dedicated to Nashville, her hometown for the past 11 years - coach Blake Shelton gushed, “I can’t even contain myself right now because I know what just happened. She may be re-branding herself as a soul singer, but for Monday night’s Top Five semi-finals on The Voice, Nashville’s Meghan Linsey dug deep into her country catalog for a show-stopping rendition of “Tennessee Whiskey,” a song originally recorded by David Allan Coe in 1981, then catapulted into a country classic two years later by George Jones.īut it was Chris Stapleton’s bluesy re-make of the tune from his just-released debut solo album that provided the arrangement for Linsey’s cover of his cover.
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