Jonny Fritz - Dad Country

  by Adrian Huggins

published: 11 / 5 / 2013

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Jonny Fritz appears to be living the true country rock dream. Having left his Virginia Mountains home at a tender age, he spent his late adolescence and young adult life travelling around the States playing his music in order to survive, or more accurately playing a gig then selling enough CDs to fund the trip to the next venue and so on. This time seems to have been well spent. Brimming with a warm sense of fun and the hint of someone with a glint in his eye and a wry sense of humour, ‘Ain’t It Your Birthday’ and ‘Suck in Your Gut’ are both wonderful examples of this and encapsulate this spirit. Different from a lot of country music which sometimes maybe takes itself a bit too seriously in my book, Fritz’s lifestyle has given him the chance to travel and see places, and it’s this worldliness that he manages to capture so well in his music. This is his trump card and is what I would imagine helps him take this sort of music a bit further than most, and what probably helps him sell those CD’s to travel further on down the line. The playing throughout the album sounds perfect from start to finish, and across tunes such as ‘Instrumental’ and ‘Shut Up’, but it is the liveliness of these songs that make them jumps out and appeal. You can feel that they’ve been born out of a life lived out on the road and that’s something quite special. People usually have a very clear and possibly limited idea of what country music is, or rather can be, but there are artists that fall into that category that break those boundaries without losing any of the defining charm. That could be said of most genres I guess but as it is such geographically-specific music it’s hard not to hold to the stereotype. Jonny Fritz is just the sort of artist to break through beyond this, and appeal to those who might not necessarily listen to country music.

Track Listing:-

1 Goodbye Summer
2 All We Do is Complain
3 Holy Water
4 Social Climbers
5 Ain't It Your Birthday
6 Shut Up
7 Wrong Crowd
8 Have You Ever Wanted to Die
9 Fever Dreams
10 Trash Day
11 Suck In Your Gut
12 Instrumental

Band Links:-

http://jonnyfritz.com/
https://www.facebook.com/dadcountry
https://twitter.com/dadcountry
https://www.youtube.com/user/jonnycorndawg

Label Links:-

http://loosemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/loosemusic
https://twitter.com/looseMusic
http://www.last.fm/user/Loose_Music
https://www.youtube.com/loosemusic
https://instagram.com/loose_music/

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