FGL, Ivey drop new sounds
Friday, February 12, 2021 – Florida Georgia Line is out with its fifth studio disc today, Life Rolls On. The 16-song set includes all six songs that came out last year as part of the 6 Pack EP. Among the songs are I Love My Country and Long Live. Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley have 13 writing credits. They also produced the set with Corey Crowder.
Jeremy Ivey is releasing The Monolith Sessions today, an EP of five songs from his latest album, Waiting Out The Storm. The set was recorded live at Nashville venue The 5 Spot. Featuring the tracks Someone Else s Problem , Movies , Things Could Get Much Worse , Paradise Alley and Loser Town. Waiting Out the Storm was released last fall and produced by his wife, Margo Price.
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I believe I first heard Margo Price sing in person at Music City Roots in 2013 when she and husband Jeremy Ivey were making their first wide impressions with their band Buffalo Clover, one of several iterations of their musical identity on the way to Margo’s 2016 breakout. They hit the stage at the Loveless Barn with a three-man horn section, two electric guitars, keys and harmony vocals. I wrote at the time that their feel fused “classic soul with hippie-friendly Southern rock into a sound that would go well with a shot of whiskey, a pint of Blackstone beer or a puff of smoke.” The set closed out with the ferocious and passionate song “Hey Child.” And with those soaring choruses, I joined the ranks of Nashvillians rooting for Margo and Jeremy, sensing greatness.