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Lee Brice - I Don't Dance - Music Head - 21-09-2014
enters the Billboard chart this week at #5
Spotify online listen
4.0 of 5.0 from allmusic
first album listen for me
better than expected
discount bin material
like the slower stuff ok
but the rock n country don't work for me
he does show some versatility in material
artist website - http://www.leebrice.com/
Bio - from allmusic
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At the dawn of the 2010s, a time when mainstream country teemed with buff hunks singing party-hearty anthems, Lee Brice offered a subtler
alternative. Also raised on a combination of contemporary rock and post-Garth Brooks country, Brice gravitated toward craft, not bluster. He
wasn't adverse to good times -- he had a country hit in 2013 called "Parking Lot Party" -- but he specialized in heart-on-sleeve ballads like "A
Woman Like You," "Hard to Love," "I Drive Your Truck," and "I Don't Dance," Top 10 country singles that showcased his supple, weathered voice
and skilled song structure. The latter is what first brought him attention in Nashville -- he penned songs for Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, and his
idol Brooks -- but the former is what turned him into a star in the early years of the 2010s.
By that point, Brice had been toiling away at a career for the better part of a decade. A native of Sumter, South Carolina, he learned how to
sing at church and when he was seven, he began playing piano. Next came the guitar and by the age of 10, he started writing his own songs,
partially under the influence of his father's favorite artists, the Oak Ridge Boys and Alabama. The performing bug bit him in high school, where
he won the school's talent contest three straight years, and he started to expand his horizons, spending time listening to rock & roll but
settling on Garth Brooks as his idol. In addition to music, Brice played football. He earned a scholarship to Clemson University but once he
suffered an arm injury, he decided to devote himself to music. On the advice of Doug Johnson, Brice moved to Nashville where Johnson would later
sign the fledgling songwriter to a publishing contract as soon as he became an A&R man at Curb Records. Brice began placing songs with major-
league artists, starting with a tune for the rock band Sister Hazel in 2006, which lead to Jason Aldean recording "Not Every Man Lives" for his
2007 album Relentless, and Garth Brooks cutting "More Than a Memory" for a bonus track on 2007's The Ultimate Hits.
Things were beginning to break Brice's way behind the scenes but he was having a harder time in front of the microphone. In 2007, he signed with
Curb as a recording artist and cut an album called Picture of Me but none of the released singles -- "She Ain't Right," "Happy Endings," and
"Upper Middle Class White Trash" -- made waves on the charts. He spent 2008 writing professionally as he retooled his own music, re-emerging in
2009 with "Love Like Crazy." He had finally hit the right formula: the single stayed on the charts for over a year, eventually reaching number
three on the Billboard Country Charts on its way to platinum certification. An album, also called Love Like Crazy, showed up in June 2010 and
while it wasn't a smash, the hit single laid down the foundation for a successful career. Brice returned in late 2011 with "A Woman Like You,"
the first single from 2012's Hard 2 Love. "A Woman Like You" became his first number one single and opened the door for the success of Hard 2
Love, which went gold on the strength of the Top 10 country singles "Hard to Love" and "I Drive Your Truck," as well as the gold single "Parking
Lot Party" which peaked at 11.
This success underneath his belt, Brice returned with his third album, the self-produced I Don't Dance in 2014. It was preceded by the title
track, which became a Top 10 country single in the summer of 2014, whetting the appetite for the record's September release.
Album Review - from allmusic
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Lee Brice performed a rare feat in 2012: he became a star on the back of ballads, not party songs. Country has a long history of gentle,
masculine crooners but the 2010s were rife with suburban dudes in tight jeans who sang slow songs only as a change of pace. Brice specialized in
an assured delivery, taking such reflective songs as "Hard to Love" and "I Drive Your Truck" to the upper reaches of the country charts, and
this success has led him to double down on deliberation on 2014's I Don't Dance. There is some volume to the record and a considerable amount of
sly electronic textures -- this especially surfaces in the rhythms, which are sometimes looped, although there's some playful Auto-Tune; the
three bonus tracks on the deluxe edition emphasize this side -- but the defining characteristic of I Don't Dance is how unhurried Brice seems,
lending the same casual authority to the faster or grittier numbers ("No Better Than This," "Drinking Class," or "Girls in Bikinis," which is
just plain silly) as he does on the ballads. This relaxed confidence is beguiling and also suits the songs, which Brice largely had a hand in
composing (only three of the 13 songs don't bear a songwriting credit from him). Without the liner notes, it's hard to tell which songs come
from Brice's pen and which don't, but that only signals how cohesive the album is. As skilled and commercially savvy a writer as he is -- and he
is, that's his background -- he keeps the focus on his performance, letting the album come on smooth and strong. I Don't Dance may sink its
teeth in slightly slowly, but that's Brice's style: he lets the listener come to him and, once they're there, he offers a warm seduction that
lasts not just for a night but for a relationship.
probably my fav here but not much else like it on the album:
[video=youtube;fBEBbgQEJy4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBEBbgQEJy4[/video]
Track Listing
1. I Don't Dance
2. No Better Than This
3. Show You Off Tonight
4. Always the Only One
5. Good Man
6. Drinking Class
7. That Don't Sound Like You
8. Girls in Bikinis
9. Sirens
10. Somebody's Been Drinking
11. Hard to Figure Out (The Airport Song)
12. My Carolina
13. Panama City
Lee Brice - I Don't Dance - SteveO - 21-09-2014
Seems old school to me! I like it! Funny thing is I was going to check him out as All Music recommended the album!
Lee Brice - I Don't Dance - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-09-2014
"i dont dance" link...not bad,wouldnt buy the album for it though.
Lee Brice - I Don't Dance - jazzboCR - 22-09-2014
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:"i dont dance" link...not bad,wouldnt buy the album for it though.
To quote the title of a great jazz tune--"Well, You Needn't": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2uW87V3TZk ,